Review Info for Political Parties & Voting Test

 

• What are the two major parties in the United States?
  
  
• What do parties do?  (Nominating Function, Informer-Stimulator Function, “Seal of Approval Function, Economicsal Function, Watchdog Function)
  
  
• What are the reasons for the two party system?  What is a multi-party system?  A one party system?  What are the weaknesses of each?
  
  
• What are minor parties?  How do they differ?  (Ideological parties, single issue parties, economic protest parties, splinter parties)  What is the role of minor parties?
  
  
• What is suffrage?  What are the stages in the struggle to extend voting rights?
  
  
• Who sets voting qualifications?  What restrictions are placed on the state?
  
  
• What are the requirements of citizenship and residence in order to vote?  What is the age requirement?
  
  
• What is the registration requirement?  Does it vary by state?  What is it in Ohio?
  
  
• What are the literacy requirements in states?  Should states have a tax on voting?  Do they?  Why or why not?
  
  
• Are there any people who may not vote?  Who are they?  Why?
  
  
• What are the provisions of the 15^th Amendment?   What is the “grandfather clause”?
  
  
• What is gerrymandering?
  
  

 

 

This list is not all inclusive……………………….