Unit 4 Vocab Quiz

The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November

• Early Voting

• Election Day

• Inauguration Day

• Veterans Day

Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.

• Gerrymandering

• Two-party system

• Electoral College

• Proportional representation

The option in some states to cast a vote at a polling place or by mail before the election

• Third party

• Two-party system

• Proportional representation

• Early voting

• Presidential election

An election held to choose candidates for office

• Political party

• Third party

• Early voting

• Two-party system

• Board of Supervisors

A political party organized in opposition to the major parties in a two-party system

• Gubernatorial Election

• General Assembly

• Senate elections

• Primary Election

• Senate elections

Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.

• Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.

• Every 6 years. 1/3 elected every two years

• Held every two years on the first Tuesday in November

• The selection of a governor by a state's voters.

A person who is employed by and acts for an organized interest group or corporation to try to influence policy decisions and positions in the executive and legislative branches.

• An electoral system with two dominant parties that compete in national elections.

• One that allows a person to vote without going to the polls on Election Day

• A person who is employed by and acts for an organized interest group or corporation to try to influence policy decisions and positions in the executive and legislative branches.

• An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.

• The 'winner takes all' rule

Held every two years on the first Tuesday in November

• Held every two years on the first Tuesday in November

• The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November

• Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.

• A rule that the one winning the most votes takes them all

• Absentee ballot

An election held to choose which candidate will hold office

• Organized for equal rights for Mexican Americans.

• An election held to choose which candidate will hold office

• One that allows a person to vote without going to the polls on Election Day

• The option in some states to cast a vote at a polling place or by mail before the election

A body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president.

• A body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president.

• Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.

• The key states that the presidential campaigns focus on because they are most likely to decide the outcome of the Electoral College vote.

• The selection of a governor by a state's voters.