Chapter 8-Political Participation

Question 1

Voting-age-population (VAP)

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Voting-eligible-population(VEP)

Answer 2

Citizens who have reached the minimum age to be eligible to vote, excluding those who are are not legally permitted to cast a ballot

Question 3

Registered voters

Answer 3

People who are registered to vote

Question 4

Literacy test

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Poll tax

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Grandfather clause

Answer 6

A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867

Question 7

White primary

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Australian-ballot

Answer 8

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 9

Activists

Answer 9

People who tend to participate in all forms of politics

Question 10

Political participation

Answer 10

The many different ways that people take part in politics and government