CH.5 Flashcards
Most voters in Texas learn about candidates for office through ____________.
Televised images
Organizations created to collect and distribute contributions to political campaigns are referred to as ______________.
Political action committee
In which case did the Supreme Court overturn a ban on unlimited independent expenditures made by corporations, unions, and nonprofit organizations in federal elections?
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)
Texas’s Latino and African American populations combined comprise ____________.
More than half of Texas’s total population
La Raza Unida Party was founded by several Latino leaders in order to ________________.
field candidates for office and mobilize Mexican-American voters
By 2015, Texans had elected latino candidates to which offices?
three statewide positions, one US senator, five us representative seats, 42 legislative seats in the Texas legislature, more than 2,100 of remaining 5,200 positions in the state.
Literacy test were implemented to ensure ____________.
minorities could not vote
Protection of the right to vote for African American was the intention behind which amendments to the U. S. Constitution?
Fourteenth and Fifteenth
