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18 Cards in this Set
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Suffrage |
The right to vote |
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Voter Turnout |
The proportion of persons of voting age who actually vote in a given election. |
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Registration |
The practice of placing citizens' names on an official list of voters before they are eligible to exercise their right to vote. |
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Apathy |
A feeling of personal disinterest in or lack of concern with politics. |
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Alienation |
A feeling of personal powerlessness that includes the notion that government does not care about the opinions of people like oneself. |
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Civic Duty |
The belief of an individual that civic and political participation is a responsibility of citizenship. |
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Social Capital |
The sum of the face-to-face interactions among citizens in a society. |
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Social (Political) Movements |
Active and sustained efforts to achieve social and political change by groups of people who feel that government has not been properly responsive to their concern. |
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Political Participation |
Involvement in activities intended to influence public policy and leadership, such as voting, joining political groups, writing to elect officials, demonstrating for political causes, and giving money to political candidates. |
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Voting-Age Population |
The citizens who are eligible to vote after reaching a minimum age requirement. In the United States a citizen must be at least eighteen years old in order to vote. |
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Registered Voters |
People who are registered to vote. |
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Motor-Voter Law |
A bill passed by Congress in 1993 to make it easier for Americans to register to vote.
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Literacy Test |
A requirement that citizens pass a literacy
test in order to register to vote. |
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Poll Tax |
A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote. Now unconstitutional. |
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Grandfather Clause |
A clause added to registration las allowing people who did not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1876. |
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White Primary |
The practice of keeping African Americans from voting in primary elections through arbitrary implementation of registration requirements and intimidation.
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Australian Ballot |
A government-printed ballot of uniform size and shape to be cast in secret that was adopted by many states around 1890 in order to reduce the voting fraud associated with party-printed ballots cast in public.
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Activists |
Individuals, usually outside of government, who actively promote a political party, philosophy, or issue they care about. |
