1. (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)

2. KRAMPUS’ POTPOURRI
CAMPAIGN FINANCE
POLITICAL PARTIES
ELECTIONS
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3. HARD MONEY
The two thousand dollars you directly donated to Jeb Bush’ presidential campaign would be called this.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

11. 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.

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

13. 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.

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

15. 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.

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

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

18. 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.

19. 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.

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

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

22. ( )/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.

23. FINAL
JEOPARDY

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