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43 Cards in this Set
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Flat Tax
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Single low tax rate
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NAFTA
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North American Treaty agreement between US, Canada, and Mexico
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Moderate
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Someone who holds an immediate position between 2 viewpoints
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Libertarian
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Believes in making the government smaller
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Radical
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A person who advocates fundamental, political, economic, and social reforms by direct methods.
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Anarchist
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Believes in establishment of society without government
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What is politics?
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Process by which society makes its governing decisions
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What do political parties do?
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Nominate candidates, win political power, and promote ideas about public policies
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Core supporters of Democratic and Republican parties
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D: Lower income people
R: Higher income people |
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Key indicators of party identification
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family, religion, socioeconomic status, and regional differences
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3rd parties and their impact on elections
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Secondary Political party. Either strengthen or weaken the candidates voting base
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Divide and conquer theory
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Taking votes from other candidates and making their party smaller
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Key 3rd party movements
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Ralph Nader- Green
Ross Perot- Independent Libertarian Populous Reform |
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Argument against 3rd parties
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ones vote for a losing candidate doesn't count for anything
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Minimum number of votes to win office
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270
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Total number of votes available
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538
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minimum number of votes each state receives.
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who breaks the tie if there is no majority?
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house of representatives
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Terrorism
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The unlawful use of violence to isolate fear
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Political and social goals of terrorism
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Bring down government
eliminate opposition promote a cause |
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Highest/Lowest Voter turn out
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Highest: older people
Lowest: 18-30 |
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Domestic Terrorism
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Terrorism within your own country
Why?May have special interest, may oppose government policies |
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Modern Terrorism motives
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gain independence
expel foreigners change society |
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Reign of terror
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initial use of terror during the French Revolution
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Olympic Games in Munich Germany (1972)
Black September |
Palestinian Terrorist Group. Killed 2 Israeli Athletes, took 9 others hostage. 5 terrorists, all hostages, and a police officer were later killed
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Hamas
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The terrorist group who currently controls Palestine
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Irish Republican Army
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opposed British control of Northern Ireland
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Osama bin Laden/Al-Qaeda
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Used mountains of Afghanistan as a base for Al-Qaeda
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Terrorist Attacks al-Qaeda has been responsible for
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Twin Towers 1993
US Embassy (Kenya, Tanzania) USS Cole 2000 9/11 Mumbai Attacks 2008 Madrid Train Bombing |
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Supreme Truth Sect
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Released a deadly nerve gas in subway stations
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Oklahoma City Bombing
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Truck bomb killed 168 people
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Timothy McVeigh
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Anti-Government extremist who was responsible for The oklahoma city bombing
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Terri Nickols
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Helped plan the OKC attacks
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Ted Kaczynski
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opposed the affects of modern technology, mailed explosive packages
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Beltway snipers
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Trained kids to terrorize cities through out US
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Bill Clinton
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US representative during the Oslo peace accords
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Colin Powell
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Sent to UN with evidence about case
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Oslo peace accords
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1st time PLO and Israel met
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Camp David Accords
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a peace treaty signed between Israel and Egypt
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Saddam Hussein
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Hanged December 30, 2006
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Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Between Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. Lebanon helped Palestine
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War on Terror
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Invaded Iraq and Afghanistan
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