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Question 1

Political Party

Answer 1

Organized coalition of interests that seeks to influence government and policy by getting members elected to public office and by coordinating the actions of elected officials.

Question 2

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 2

3rd President of the United States. He favored limited central government. He was chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; approved of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and promoted ideals of republicanism. Sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore this territory.

Question 3

Political Machine

Answer 3

Party organization that offered rewards for voting for them in the shape of government jobs and funds.

Question 4

candidate-centered politics

Answer 4

politics that focuses on candidates, their particular issues, and character rather than party affiliation.

Question 5

Party Realignment

Answer 5

dramatic shifts in partisan preferences that drastically alter the political landscape.

Question 6

Critical election

Answer 6

an election that signals party realignment through voter polarization around new issues and personalities.

Question 7

Secular realignment

Answer 7

a gradual rearrangement of party coalition based more on demographic shifts than on shocks to the political system.

Question 8

National convention

Answer 8

a party meeting held in the presidential election year for the purpose of nominating a presidential and vice presidential ticket and adopting a platform.

Question 9

Delegate

Answer 9

someone who speaks or acts on behalf of an organization at a meeting or conference between organizations of the same level.

Question 10

Superdelegate

Answer 10

party leaders and elected officials who become delegates to the national convention without having to run in primaries or caucuses not required to pledge themselves in advance to a presidential candidate.

Question 11

Donald J. Trump

Answer 11

The forty-fifth president, a republican, elected in 2016. First president elected without political experience.

Question 12

National party platform

Answer 12

political party’s statement of its goals and policies for the next four years. The platform is drafted prior to the party convention by a committee whose members are chosen in rough proportion to each candidate’s strength. It is the best formal statement of a party’s beliefs.

Question 13

Barack Obama

Answer 13

The first African American President of the United States, a Democrat, who served as the forty-fourth president from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.

Question 14

Party Identification

Answer 14

a citizen’s self-proclaimed preference for one party or the other.

Question 15

Hillary Clinton

Answer 15

First female major party candidate for president of the United States, a Democrat who ran against president Donald J. Trump. Secretary of the state from 2009 to 2013; New York senator from 2001 to 2009; former first lady.

Question 16

proportional representation

Answer 16

an electoral system used throughout most of Europe that awards legislative seats to political parties in proportion to the number of votes won in an election.

Question 17

Winner-take-all system

Answer 17

an electoral system in which legislative seats are awarded only to the candidates who come in first in their constituencies. In US presidential elections, the system in which the winner of the popular vote in a state receives all the electoral votes of that state.

Question 18

Partisan Polarization

Answer 18

a vote in which a majority of Democratic legislators oppose a majority of Republican legislators.