THE AMERICAN PARTY SYSTEM

Alien and Sedition Acts

Anti-Federalist Party

central government

Constitutional Convention

Era of Good Feelings

faction

Federalist Party

loose construction

provision

strict construction

Administration

Ballot box

Candidate

constituency

dictatorship

partisan

political parties

program

provincial

representative democracies

Third parties play a highly important role in the:

_____-party systems are most common in the English-speaking countries of the world

The two major political parties in Great Britain are the:

A person running for political office is called a:

Voters in a district who elect a public servant are known as a(n):

The two major political parties in Canada are the:

Which political party controlled the South from 1861 to the early 1960s?

What party do the large cities tend to support?

Dictatorships are most commonly found in which two places?

What is a coalition?

MATCHING: 1. People of a certain region who elected a representative to whom the representative is answerable. 2. a type of person who will staunchly campaign or vote for only one political party. 3. a political plan of action 4. the executive branch of the American government; particularly used in relation to the office-holder 5. a political party's assembly, usually for the purpose of presenting a candidate 6. a democracy where the people elect representatives to act as their agents.

The two major American political parties are:

Select three democratic presidents:

Many times a political party is accused of _____ if it appears they put their party's agenda ahead of the good of the people.

The Anti-Federalists believed in a _____ interpretation of the Constitution.

The ____ believed in a loose construction of the Constitution

The Anti-Federalist would limit the Federal government strictly to:

The ____ believed that the Federal government should possess all powers not specifically denied to it

The only two Democrats to serve as President from 1860 to 1916 were:

The Democrats won all the election from 1818-1860 except in

Select the two true statements about the Democrat Party.

The Democrats fought bitterly at times over: -banking policies -slavery issues -tariff rates - all of the above

The Democrats blamed the Republicans for the Stock Market crash of 1929.

The Democratic split was so severe during the 1860 elections that:

carried

challenger

concede

economic unrest

incumbent

landslide defeat

majority

scandal

stock market crash of 1929

Whig Party

The Republicans won fourteen of the eighteen presidential elections held between 1860 and 1928.

Starting with Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party was in office from 1952 through 1972.

Select the five Republican presidents:

Republican Ronal Reagan won the 1980 presidential election.

The Republican Party began as a series of anti-slavery political meetings held in the Midwest in 1854

The Republicans controlled the House of Representatives, but not the Senate in 1948.

Abraham Lincoln was the Republican president during the Civil War.

The Republican Party appealed to groups such as farmers, industrialists, and merchants.

Match the following definitions with your vocabulary words. 1- having larder numbers in the house of congress, assuring strong voting power in decisions of legislation 2- losing by a sizable margin in an election 3- a person who currently holds an office 4- a person who doesn't hold an office but who is trying to unseat an incumbent

William Howard Taft led a divided Republican Party in 1912.

The Bull Moose Party was formed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.

John C. Fremont was the first Republican presidential candidate to win the office in 1856.

The Populist Party of the 1890's was an example of a party formed chiefly to help a ____

The Prohibition Party was founded in 1869 solely for the purpose of preventing the manufacturer and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States. The Prohibition Party is an example of____

The ____ Libertarian way is logically consistent approach to politics based on the moral principle of self-ownership

The party formed by Texas billionaires Ross Perot 1990s was this party:

Three of the parties that began by splitting away from the two major political parties include the:

Four examples of left-wing protest groups include:

This party stands for prevention-oriented government, conflict-free politics, and proven solutions designed to bring national life into harmony with natural law:

This party is an example of a single-issue party:

The left-wing protest party that was formed in 1919 was the:

Debt-ridden farmers founded these two parties in the late 1800s: