Chapter 9 Post Test

A  Ranked-choice voting has never been implemented in the United States or any other democracy.

B  Ranked-choice voting has been implemented in some countries (such as Australia) and in a handful of American states and cities.

C  Ranked-choice voting has been implemented in some countries (such as Australia) but has never been tried in the United States.

D  A handful of American states and cities have implemented ranked-choice voting, but it has never been tried in any other democracy.

A  social and economic interests that are disregarded by the two major parties for certain reasons.

B  recent immigrants.

C  extremist religious groups.

D  the political interests of America’s allies, who attempt to influence the American decision-making process because U.S. policies can affect their futures.

A  The Republican candidate would win the election.

B  The Democratic candidate would win the election.

C  Hillary Clinton would have lost the election.

D  Another third-party candidate would win the election.

A  Voting Rights Act of 1965.

B  System of 1896.

C  “southern strategy.”

D  Bush tax cuts.

A  the Civil War Party System

B  the First Party System

C  the Contemporary Party System

D  the System of 1896

A  nominating a presidential candidate

B  increasing voter turnout and win back Congress

C  changing the party’s platform to focus most on Democratic loyalists

D  adopting more of President Trump’s policies to coopt his support.

A  Latinos and the business community

B  African Americans and upper-class intellectuals

C  religious conservatives and working-class Whites

D  Jews and unionized workers

A  Roosevelt’s inability to unite the upper and lower middle-classes.

B  Nixon’s popularity with African Americans.

C  the Great Depression.

D  internal party conflicts over civil rights and the Vietnam War.

A  Democratic

B  Republican

C  Populist

D  Whig

A  Federalist; Whig

B  Democratic; Republican

C  Republican; Democratic

D  Whig; Federalist

A  the death of Andrew Jackson

B  the admission of California into the Union

C  slavery

D  industrialization

A  Lincoln’s election in 1860.

B  the Civil War.

C  Alexander Hamilton being killed by Aaron Burr.

D  the War of 1812.

A  6

B  9

C  2

D  12

A  a new election is conducted if no candidate receives a majority of first-place votes.

B  a candidate is declared the winner if he or she wins a majority of first-place votes.

C  there are always at least three separate rounds of voting.

D  there are always at least two separate rounds of voting.

A  South, Great Plains, and Mountain West.

B  South, Northeast, and Midwest.

C  Northeast, Midwest, and West.

D  Northeast and South.

A  overwhelmingly committed to; Democratic

B  somewhat more likely to support; Republican

C  somewhat more likely to support; Democratic

D  overwhelmingly committed to; Republican

A  independents.

B  Republicans.

C  libertarians.

D  Democrats.

A  Democratic Party

B  American Independent Party

C  Republican Party

D  Bull Moose Party

A  idea capitalist.

B  venue shopper.

C  policy entrepreneur.

D  whip.

A  expanding funding for education, public spending for infrastructure, and raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations

B  banning abortion, eliminating military spending, and raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations

C  maintaining high levels of military spending, tax relief for upper-income voters, and reducing corporate taxes

D  ending enforcement of all immigration laws, banning abortion, and eliminating income taxes

A    

B  the formal structure of a political party, including leadership, election committees, members, and paid staff

C  the organized meeting in which a party selects its candidate for presidency and adopts the party platform

D  the elite-level members of a party who determine which organizational moves to make

E  the on-the-ground party members who help organize elections and mobilize voters

A  growing levels of air pollution produced from rapid industrialization.

B  system of legal segregation in southern states.

C  excessive power, corruption, and abuses of party machines and their bosses.

D  disenfranchisement of women.

A  tariffs

B  tax cuts

C  jobs

D  money

A  primary elections do not work to select a candidate for public office.

B  there are limits to party insiders’ control of the presidential nomination process.

C  party elites play an outsized role in the presidential nomination process.

D  only the most active members of the Republican Party voted in the 2016 primaries.

A  exclude voters from the nomination process in primary and caucus elections.

B  to nominate the candidate for the national election.

C  to make partisan appointments to Congress and control the party nomination

D  to set the rules for primary and caucus elections as a national committee.

A  four years and attended by delegates from all 50 states.

B  year and attended by delegates from all 50 states.

C  four years and attended only by delegates from states that voted for the party’s candidate in the last presidential election.

D  two years and only attended by delegates from states that voted for the party’s candidate in the last presidential election.

A  recruiting additional candidates to run for office.

B  forming a committee within Congress to determine campaign strategy.

C  redrawing each congressional district’s lines.

D  ensuring that citizens are registered to vote.

A  select a single candidate to represent the party in the general election.

B  raise money to spend on the party’s preselected candidate for the general election.

C  take nominations for leadership positions within the party.

D  vote on the party’s platform.

A  caucus

B  party

C  convention

D  primary

A  how to increase the number of people seeking office, how to generate widespread consensus about political problems, and how to limit corruption in government

B  how to incorporate young people into the political system, how to convince citizens to trust the government, and how to minimize fiscal shortfalls

C  how to create economic growth, how to protect freedom of speech, and how to achieve equal treatment under the law

D  how to regulate the number of people seeking public office, how to mobilize voters, and how to achieve the majorities needed to accomplish legislative goals once in office

A  a political system with single-member districts and plurality rule elections will tend to result in a two-party system.

B  a political system that only has two major political parties is more reflective of and responsible to voters’ preferences.

C  a political system is only really a two-party system if other parties beyond the main two are legally prohibited.

D  unless a political system adopts strict majoritarian requirements for winning elections, the system will drift into a multiparty democracy.

A  seats in the House of Representatives and Senate are allocated to political parties based on their share of the total vote cast in the election.

B  the candidate with the most votes wins, even if he or she did not win a majority of the popular vote.

C  a candidate can win an election only if he or she wins a majority of the popular vote.

D  a candidate must win both a primary election and a general election before taking office.

A  proportional representation.

B  multimember electoral districts.

C  single-member, winner-take-all electoral districts.

D  the Constitution’s requirement for bipartisanship in Congress.

A  Federalists and the Whigs.

B  Federalists and the Washingtonian Democrats.

C  Whigs and the Antifederalists.

D  Federalists and the Jeffersonian Republicans.

A  patronage.

B  partisanship.

C  micro-targeting.

D  Duverger’s Law.

A  equally responsive to the preferences of the different classes.

B  more responsive to the preferences of the upper and middle classes than the lower class.

C  more responsive to the preferences of the lower and upper classes than the middle class.

D  more responsive to the preferences of the lower and middle classes than the upper class.

A  identification with or support of a particular party

B  the process by which a political party is formed

C  official acts and behaviors of political parties

D  the pointless political fighting between the two parties that serves no purpose

A  ideology.

B  tradition.

C  identification.

D  opinion.

A  the Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans party system

B  the Second Party System

C  the Civil War Party System.

D  the First Party System

A  ranked-choice voting.

B  strategic voting.

C  top-to-bottom voting.

D  first-past-the-post voting.

A  these are the only problems that have yet to be solved by the free market.

B  these are the only issues that remain to be solved by elected officials.

C  the Constitution limits the federal government’s powers to legislate on these issues, necessitating an electoral solution.

D  these issues are important to the middle class, whose support both parties compete for.

A  party unity voting.

B  unified government.

C  party polarization.

D  divided government.

A  Franklin Delano Roosevelt

B  Barry Goldwater

C  Ronald Reagan

D  Richard Nixon

A  western mining interests, small farmers, and urban workers

B  eastern bankers, southern planters, and wealthy merchants

C  northern bankers, landowners, and factory workers

D  eastern mining interests, southern merchants, and small farmers

A  Federalists; Whigs

B  Democrats; Whigs

C  Democrats; Republicans

D  Federalists; Jeffersonians

A  Whigs; Democrats

B  Federalists; Jeffersonian Republicans

C  Whigs; Jeffersonian Republicans

D  Whigs; Federalists

A  Latino voters

B  young Asian American voters

C  African American voters

D  older White voters

A  the gender gap.

B  the partisan gap.

C  party polarization.

D  the party divide.

A  educated upper-middle-class professionals; White working-class voters

B  racial minorities; government workers

C  White working-class voters; racial minorities

D    

E  White working-class voters; educated upper-middle-class professionals

A  majority party.

B  Republican Party.

C  Speaker of the House.

D  minority party.

A  determining committee assignments for members of Congress.

B  raising campaign funds for party candidates.

C  enhancing the party’s media image.

D  minimizing disputes within various parts of the party.

A  so many Americans identify as so-called independents rather than as members of one of the political parties.

B  local, state, and the federal governments have decreased in size to the point that almost no jobs are available to distribute as patronage.

C  the Supreme Court ruled in 1943 that party machines cannot qualify as tax-exempt organizations.

D  civil service reform and the institution of the merit system mean that party leaders can no longer control who is appointed to government jobs.

A  caucuses

B  Super PAC committees

C  patronage

D  soft money

A  Though national conventions prior to World War II were primarily devoted to debating and negotiating about who the party’s nominee would be, today’s conventions serve mostly as media events to promote the candidate the party has already selected.

B  There has been very little change in national party conventions over time, as they have always served mostly as media events to promote the candidate the party has already selected.

C  There has been very little change in national party conventions over time, as they have always been primarily devoted to debating and negotiating about who the party’s nominee will be.

D  Although national conventions prior to World War II were primarily media events to promote the candidate the party had already selected, today’s conventions are devoted mostly to debating and negotiating about who the party’s nominee will be.

A  Winnowing

B  Message bundling

C  Micro-targeting

D  Redlining

A  the political opinions of the country’s citizens.

B  whether the country’s media outlets are publicly or privately owned.

C  the country’s electoral system and rules.

D  whether election campaigns are publicly or privately financed.

A  a system, laid out in the Constitution, that calls for only two major parties to compete in most elections

B  a system in which political parties act at two levels; a local level more responsive to members, and a national level more responsive to country-wide interests and groups

C  a system in which political parties tend to form factions within themselves, that is to say, a single political party forming a liberal and a conservative wing

D  a system in which only two parties have a realistic opportunity to compete effectively for control

A  seats in the legislature are allocated to political parties based on their share of the total vote cast in the election.

B  candidates can only win elections if they receive a majority of the overall votes.

C  each political party receives an equal number of seats in the legislature.

D  every candidate who receives above a certain percentage of the vote (usually set at 20%) is awarded a seat in the legislature.

A  a patronage system.

B  a system with responsible political parties.

C  a system of interest groups instead of parties.

D  a system that is not partisan.

A  that tries to influence the government by getting its members elected to office.

B  established by the Constitution to nominate candidates.

C  that falls under section 501(c)(4) of the U.S. tax code.

D  that collects fees from its members in order to pay the salaries of government officials.