2c (rev Guide)

Question 0

Cross-cutting cleavages

Answer 0

Control for factors that may produce a counter influence on voters such as age, social class, education level, race, gender

Question 1

Political participation

Answer 1

The various activities that citizens employ in their efforts to influence policy making and the selection of leaders

Question 2

Universal manhood suffrage

Answer 2

Voting rights for all white males

Question 3

15th amendment

Answer 3

Stated that the “right of citizens of United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”

Question 4

Jim Crow laws

Answer 4

Literacy tests, poll taxes, and the grandfather clause

–prevented many blacks from voting until well past the mid-20th century

Question 5

24th amendment

Answer 5

banned the use of a poll tax

Question 6

19th amendment

Answer 6

Extended the vote to women in 1920

result: double size of electorate

Question 7

26th amendment

Answer 7

Change the minimum voting age from 21 to 18

Question 8

Registered voters

Answer 8

People who are registered to vote

Question 9

Eligible voters

Answer 9

The voting age population

Question 10

“motor-voter” bill

Answer 10

National Voter Registration Act

• -allows people to register to vote while applying for or renewing a drivers license
• -requires states to provide assistance to facilitate voter registration

Question 11

Help America Vote Act (HAVA)

Answer 11

passed by congress to improve State voting systems and voter access by helping states to create state-wide voter registration databases

Question 12

“grass roots”

Answer 12

local level

involvement in parties campaigning for votes

Question 13

Election Assistance Commission

Answer 13

created to carry out the reforms that HAVA induced after the 2000 election
(Funding to help states update their voting equipment / created minimum election administration standard

Question 14

Provision ballots

Answer 14

Used when it is not clear that a voter is officially registered

–allows the voter to cast a ballot that will be counted after eligibility has been confirmed by an elections official

Question 15

early voting

Answer 15

permits people to vote before Election Day in person or by mail

Question 16

same-day voter registration

Answer 16

people may register and vote on the same day rather than register at least a month before the election

Question 17

Activist

Answer 17

Person who tends to participate in all forms of politics

Question 18

Australian ballot

Answer 18

A government printed ballot of uniform dimensions to be cast in secret that many states adopted around 1890 to reduce voting fraud associated with party printed ballots cast in public

Question 19

Grandfather clause

Answer 19

A clause in registration laws allowing a person who does not meet registration requirements to vote if he or his ancestor voted before 1867

Question 20

Literacy test

Answer 20

A requirement that citizens prove that they can read before registering to vote

Question 21

Poll tax

Answer 21

A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote

Question 22

Voting-age population

Answer 22

Citizens who are eligible to vote after reaching the minimum age requirement

Question 23

White primary

Answer 23

The practice of keeping blacks from voting in southern states primaries through arbitrary use of registration requirements and intimidation