(Mr. Wright caught all of the Pokemon from a landline) AP GOV TEST #3 REVIEW (Mr. Wright caught all of the Pokemon from a landline)

KRAMPUS’ POTPOURRI CAMPAIGN FINANCE POLITICAL PARTIES ELECTIONS 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500

HARD MONEY The two thousand dollars you directly donated to Jeb Bush’ presidential campaign would be called this.

GENERAL ELECTIONS Typically, it’s the election cycle where candidates run toward the center in order to win the independents.

RATIFICATION The origin of the two-party system in the U.S. can trace its roots to the debate over this.

DIRECT PRIMARIES These have resulted in a weakening of political parties as an organization, because candidates are no longer selected in smoke-filled rooms.

BAKER V CARR SCOTUS precedent which was responsible for the source of your frustration during the redistricting game when you couldn’t get 640-650,000 people in each district.

SUPERDELEGATES An election loss by Hubert Humphrey to Richard Nixon in 1968 led to the creation of these in the DNC as a means of ensuring that the primary process was democratic, just not too democratic.

REPUBLICANS & DEMOCRATS The Tea Party and the Blue Dogs are factions of which two parties, respectively?

IOWA, NEW HAMPSHIRE RESPECTIVELY, THE FIRST STATE TO HOLD A CAUCUS AND THE FIRST STATE TO HOLD A PRIMARY

527 The type of outside group being hinted at here which can raise unlimited funds for ads that are focused on an election or nomination.

OPEN PRIMARY In this type of election, You get to choose which one you want when you show up to vote.

THE GREAT DEPRESSION It is the critical realigning period which made the Republicans the party of small government, and the Democrats the party of Leviathan.

THEY SIPHON VOTES FROM THE MAJOR PARTIES Third party candidates are often called “spoilers” due to their having this major impact upon elections.

501c As long as it didn’t spend half its budget on ads, It’s how the U.S. Humane Society would be classified if it ran them during the election cycle.

SHAW V. RENO DAILY DOUBLE SCOTUS ruling which says that gerrymandering is legal, as long as it does not create a racially homogenous district

SLAVERY DAILY DOUBLE The wedge issue that divided the Whigs, and gave rise to the GOP.

PATRONAGE It’s the term in party politics where favors are traded, or in other words, you scratch my back, and I’ll scratch yours.

CITIZENS UNITED V FEC SCOTUS ruling whICH HELD THAT outside groups could spend unlimited amounts of money on political activities, as long as it was done independently of a party or candidate.

EVERY TEN YEARS, 435 It’s how often reapportionment takes place, and the number of seats getting reapportioned.

WINNER-TAKE-ALL Another name for the plurality system which limits the ability of third parties to gain traction.

(25+30+2+6)/7=9 (The minimum age of a congressman + The minimum age of a Senator + the combined length of their terms)/the number of years you need to be an American citizen to be a congressman.

FINAL JEOPARDY

PARTY TIMES

JOHN ADAMS; THOMAS JEFFERSON The first Federalist and Democratic-Republican VICE-PRESIDENTS.