Government: Elections & Voting Study Guide

Directions: Answer all questions. 

Chapter 16 & Notes* 

1.     Political parties (define)

2.     One party system (definition and example) *

3.     Two party system (definition and example)*

4.     Multiparty system (definition and example)*

5.     Third Party (define)

6.     What is the difference: single issue party vs ideological party vs splinter party

7.     What are characteristics of Democratic Party members?*

8.     What are characteristics of Republican Party members?*

9.     Fill in the chart in chart according to the views of each party:

Democratic	Issue	Republican
	Abortion
	Gay Rights
	Gun Rights
	Social Security/ Welfare
	Environment

Chapter 17: Voting Rights

10.     Voters

Types of  Voters	Define
Independent
Cross-pressured
Party loyalists

11.  Know term propaganda  (pg. 495-496)

12. What were the voting rights in 1776? *

13. What did the 15^th amendment do? *

14.  What was the first state to allow women to vote?*

15.   What did the 19^th amendment do? *

16.    Indian Citizenship Act *

17.   What did the 23^rd amendment do?*

18.    Literacy Test*

19.  Poll Tax *

20.  Grandfather Clause*

21.    What did the 24^th amendment do? *

22.   What did the voting rights act of 1965 do?*

23.      What did the 26^th amendment do?

Essay Questions

24.     Explain three ways the South denied African Americans the right to vote even after the 15^th amendment was passed.

25.     List and explain 3 of the 5 factors that influence a voter’s decision to vote.  Discuss the characteristics that will influence a person to either be a voter/nonvoter.