Unit 5 Lessons 1-4 Vocab Quiz Practice

A person in the United States, in a territory of the United States OR on a United States military base is a...

• Naturalized Citizen

• Natural Born Citizen

• Elector

• Media

Establishes the Executive Branch of the United States government

• Article I

• Article II

• Article III

• Title IX

The following are all ___________.

• 35 years or older

• 14 years a resident

• Natural Born Citizen

• informal requirements to be president

• formal requirements to be president

• formal requirements to be in the Senate

• formal requirements to be in the House of Representatives

Married with children, white, rich, college educated, former politicial, name recognition.... these all represent what?

• Formal requirements to be president

• informal requirements to be in congress

• informal requirements to be president

Primary

• an election where senators are chosen

• an election where the official winner for the position is chosen

• an election where people from the same party run against one another to earn a nomination

• an election where only house members are chosen

General Election

• All elections are the same.

• first step in the election process; parties nominate the candidates they'd like to represent t hem in the final election

• Candidates must get 270 votes to win- number of votes each states gets is the number of house members plus the number of senators

• Where all registered voters cast their ballots for the final election

a large meeting of people (the best defintion)

• primary

• convention

• party

• general election

Party Platform

• outlines a party's stance on topics such as the economy, social issues, foreign policy, environmental policy

• Where nominees give speeches and formal statements

• how the people decide who will become president

• when multiple states hold their primaries

This decides who becomes the president. Includes 538 total votes. A person needs 270 to win

• popular vote

• electoral college

• votes of indivudal people

• National Conventions

Elector

• the person who chooses the nominee for each party

• a person who gets to vote on behalf of their state in a presidential election

• this is what all people are in a presidential election