Pt 3: Chapter 7 Notes

Question 1

How is the US voter turnout compared to European turnout and why?

Answer 1

European turnout is much higher than US. Mostly because US has more elections and has stricter registration requirements

Question 2

Registration requirements were historical made to

Answer 2

Limit suffrage and because people were coming in and voting multiple times (voter fraud)

Question 3

Registration reqs are determined by who?

Answer 3

The states

Question 4

What did registration reqs do?

Answer 4

Negatively impacted voter turnout

Question 5

The ID card req affected who the most?

Answer 5

Low socio-economic status families

Question 6

Americans are often asked to vote ___ as many times as Europeans?

Answer 6

two or three times as often

Question 7

What are some factors that come into play when we see why some Americans vote and others do not?

Answer 7

• education and income
• age
• civic attitudes
• political interest and party identification

Question 8

Higher income –>

Answer 8

more likely to be registered

Question 9

Whos most likely to vote, extremists or moderates?

Answer 9

Extremists

Question 10

By the ____ most property restrictions were removes

Answer 10

1840s

Question 11

Which amendment gave African Americans the right to vote?

Answer 11

15th amendment

Question 12

When received the right to vote when?

Answer 12

1920 via the 20th amendment

Question 13

When did 18 year olds receive the right to vote?

Answer 13

1971 with the 26th amendment

Question 14

What are some factors that make voter turnout in the US lower than other countries?

Answer 14

• registration requirements

- frequency of elections

Question 15

Voter ID cards did what to voter turnout

Answer 15

Depress voter turnout

Question 16

Americans were asked to vote how many more times as often as Europeans?

Answer 16

2-3 times

Question 17

Who shows up to vote, higher class or lower class?

Answer 17

Higher class

Question 18

The more extreme you are, the ___ likely you are to vote

Answer 18

Most

Question 19

What includes political campaigns and citizen mobilization, has democratic effects, but lends people to political polarization?

Answer 19

Virtual participation

Question 20

When were protests more common?

Answer 20

Predemocratic era

Question 21

What are some conventional forms of political participation that social and political movements use?

Answer 21

Lobbying, voting, writing letters

Question 22

What are some unconventional means that social and political movements use for political participation?

Answer 22

Protests

Question 23

With the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street protest movements, they both started with what?

Answer 23

Anger at established interests

Question 24

What was the initial target of the Tea Party protest?

Answer 24

Republican lawmakers for the 2008 bank bailout

Question 25

The Tea Party protest played a key role in what in 2010?

Answer 25

Republican takeover of the House in 2010

Question 26

Occupy Wall Street began as a protest against what?

Answer 26

Against bailout of the financial industry and government’s failure to hold bankers accountable

Question 27

OWS’s target was private wealth and it aimed to curb what?

Answer 27

Political influence of large political donors

Question 28

How likely are Americans to protest than citizens in other democracies?

Answer 28

Less likely

Question 29

Public support for protest activity is low or high?

Answer 29

Relatively low

Question 30

______ diminishes political participation

Answer 30

Individualism

Question 31

______ Americans are least likely to vote or participate politically, why?

Answer 31

Lower-income

- lack resources and education levels

Question 32

Participation reflects

Answer 32

Socioeconomic level