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Unit II: Elections
Unit II: Elections
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Review for our elections / political parties unit in Gov / Econ
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1
Easy-to-read sections of a credit card application that provides the card's costs?
"Schumer Box"
"Fine Print"
"Explaination Box"
"Stanley Box"
2
Method of selecting a candidate where groups of citizens meet? Think Iowa...
Primary
Convention
Caucus
Petition
3
Leaders in mass media that help direct people's political opinions?
Opinion Leaders
Pundits
Commentators
Peer leader
4
Name of the Federal law that protects workers’ rights to form a union?
Wagner Act
Patriot Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Blunt Amendment
5
One (1) of the character traits often associated with a conservative?
Government assistance
Social service
Equal rights for all
Personal empowerment
6
An economist considers what they “could have” bought...
Budget
Oppertunity Cost
Oppertunity anaylsis
Product anaylsis
7
A third party that has one BIG issue that they base their platformaround...and not much else
Single-Issue Parties
Ideological Parties
Splinter Parties
Economic Protest Parties
8
If no Presidential candidate wins the Electoral College, who decided the election?
The Senate
The States
The House
The Supreme Court
9
An area where buyers and settlers meet to exchange goods?
A union
A culture
A market
A business
10
Who is given the responsible for overseeing elections in the US?
The courts
The Federal Elections Commission
The states
The Federal Government
11
One of the first political parties in the US (John Adams & Alexander Hamilton were members)?
The Federalists
The Whigs
The Green Party
The Democrats
12
“On Election Day, you are not voting for acandidate…your are voting for ___________.”
An elector
The President
A political party
A platform
13
Method of re-drawling political districts to ensure reelection?
Gerrymandering
Election formating
Appropriation
Redistrict-ification
14
Union members will use this method of negotiating a group contract?
Collective Bargaining
Arbitration
Striking
Fact-Finding
15
Main problem that all economists are trying to address...
Security
What goods should we produce?
Scarcity
Economic impact
16
Pennsylvaniais one of the many states that has a ___________ primary system
Closed
Open
Blanket
Block
17
Which of the following is typically
NOT
a major belief of the Democratic Party?
More equality
Cuts to social programs
Strict Regulations
Pro-Choice
18
"Magic number" needed to win the Electoral College...
150
270
300
200
19
Independent groups who can raise & spend unlimited amounts of money on political issues?
Charities
US Treasury
Re-Election Committees
SuperPACs
20
Thispolitical party was formed thus creating our modern two-party political system?
The Federalists
The Republicans
The Whigs
The Democratic-Republicans
21
Voters, who tend to find their political beliefs in this center of the political spectrum?
Fundamentalists
Liberals
Moderates
Coservative
22
A society’s valuable resources (such as land, labor, capital, etc.)?
Incentives
Economic factors
Factors of production
Natural resources
23
Which of the following is
NOT
a major requirement to vote in the US?
Registration status
Literacy
Age
Residency
24
Goods supplied is exactly the right amount demanded for a given population?
Price Ceiling
Equilibrium
Excess Demand
Excess Supply
25
Multiple deficits that the US government has had since the American Revolution?
The Great Recession
The National Debt
The Spending Freeze
The National Deficiet