Unit 5: Elections and Voting Study Guide

Unit 5: Elections and Voting Study Guide

Chapter 17, Section 1: Election Campaigns

1. First Tuesday after the first Monday in November

2. It is the most important communication tool, the most expensive.

3. Independent agency in the executive branch, administer election laws

4. House of Representatives plus the senate: 270 out of 538

5. Responsible for the overall planning and strategy of a campaign

6. Donations or contribution by individuals or PAC directly to the party for general purpose usage

7. It banned “soft money”, made IAA illegal 30 days before primary and 60 days before general

8. $2500

9. California-55

10. Established by special interest groups and are used to collect money and distribute to candidates

11. Paid for by interest groups, urge a voter to support a particular issue

12. Private sector

13. Overturned the Bi-Paritsan Campaign Reform Act, it allowed SIG and PAC to run IAA at any period of time.

14. Kentucky has 8 electoral votes

15. A state that could go either way in a presidential election year, and if won by the candidate, could be the determining factor if they win the election (Florida, Ohio, Virginia)

Chapter 17, Section 2: Expanding Voting Rights

16. White, wealthy, land-owning, tax-paying men to vote

17. 1920, women get the right to vote

18. 1870, African Americans get the right to vote

19. Most effective suffrage law ever passed, it helped African Americans become registered to vote (year was 1965)

20. Right to vote

21. Leader of the Women’s Party, used protest as a way to get the nation’s attention, was jailed and went on a hunger strike

22. Get the right to vote from 26th Amendment in 1971 because of Vietnam war

23. Convention that helped to start women’s suffrage movement, lead by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

24. Voting rights are expanded during or after a war

25. When someone has to pay a tax or fee before they can vote

Voter Handbook

26. State level

27. 18 years old, US citizen, not mentally insane or a convicted felon

28. Way to vote when you cannot make it to the polls

29. Secret ballot that is used in American elections

30. Place where you vote

31. Enroll with a local government

Chapter 17, Section 3: Influence on Voters

32. Weak party loyalty, very influential in determining the outcome of elections.

33. Using information, ideas, and rumors to influence elections

34. A person is caught between different aspects of life; religion, family, peers, issues

35. You only select candidates from within your party