- Our nation’s first political party, created by Alexander Hamilton from a coalition of whose who supported a strong central government, including New England merchants and manufacturers
Your answer:
Federalists
Whigs
Republicans
Anti-Federalists
- A temporary alliance between groups with differing interests or points of view (often, in order to win an election or control government)
Your answer:
political socialization
concurrence
consensus
coalition
- A system of election by which the voters of a city, state, or a country -- as a whole -- elect government officials
Your answer:
proportional representation
split ticket voting
direct vote
at large
- The practice of awarding government jobs to political supporters and friends
Your answer:
merit system
one party system
patronage
proportional representation
- A statement of the goals and principles of a political party
Your answer:
platform
nominating convention
straight ticket
standard
- Andrew Jackson's political opponents in the 1820s and 1830s -- who referred to him as "King Andrew" -- created a major political party that took this name, from the English party that opposed the king's power
Your answer:
Democrats
Whigs
Democratic Republicans
Federalists
- The allocation of legislative seats to each political party in proportion to the votes it receives
Your answer:
political allocation
equal representation
proportional representation
political representation
- A person who does not identify with any particular political party, nor feel any loyalty to a party
Your answer:
reactionary
loyal opposition
independent
neophyte
- When two or more individuals or groups have reached a general agreement about general principles or issues that might have kept them apart, previously
Your answer:
consensus
platform
nominating convention
coalition
- After the Civil War, when many states in the southern U.S. became virtually one-party states, voting overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates, it became known as this
Your answer:
Southern Confederacy
single party system
Rabid Republican
Solid South
- A political party's leadership, fund-raising, and promotional organization
Your answer:
national committee
full funding committee
executive officers
nominating committee
- A political party often that is out of power (not in control of the presidency, or in the minority in Congress, for example) but is loyal to the nation while opposing the policies of the party in power
Your answer:
broker party
loyal opposition
central committee
missionary party
- Political party that is more concerned with gaining votes than with maintaining rigid ideologies, willing to alter policies in order to gain votes
Your answer:
Democratic Party
Whigs
single-issue party
broker party
- One of our nation’s two major political parties, began in 1854 as a coalition of anti-slavery groups and moneyed merchants and manufacturers from the northern states, as well as western farmers
Your answer:
Republicans
Democrats
Federalists
Whigs
- A political system in which two major groups with differing political philosophies compete for control of the government
Your answer:
splinter party system
single party system
two party system
broker party system
- A group of like-minded citizens organized to win elections, control government, and set public policy
Your answer:
splinter party
broker party
interest group
political party
- Our nation’s second political party, founded in the 1790s by Thomas Jefferson in opposition to Alexander Hamilton's plans, it was made up of a coalition of small farmers, Western pioneers, and Southern plantation owners
Your answer:
Federalists
Democratic Republicans
Whigs
Whigs
- The practice of hiring and promoting employer on the basis of objective, competitive testing
Your answer:
competitive system
merit employment
single party system
spoils sytem
- A person or political party with a position in the center of the ideological spectrum
Your answer:
left wing
right wing
centrist
independent
- The meeting of a political party's delegates in a presidential year to write a platform and nominate candidates
Your answer:
patronage
party caucus
nominating convention
national party
- A vote cast on one ballot for candidates of two or more different political parties
Your answer:
straight ticket vote
multi-party vote
delegate selection process
split ticket vote
- Political parties that are highly ideological, firmly devoted to a specific system of political ideas and attitudes, seeking converts and followers more than votes
Your answer:
single issue party
broker party
missionary party
splinter party
- One of our nation’s two major political parties, originally called Democratic-Republicans (a coalition of slave owners, farmers, and those in society who owned money that held together until the Civil War)
Your answer:
Democrats
Whigs
Republicans
Federalists
- A political system with many rival parties competing for control of the government
Your answer:
single party system
multi-party system
rival party system
confederacy
- A vote cast on one ballot for all the candidates of the same political party
Your answer:
merit system
patronage
single party ticket
straight party ticket
- The political party that is out of office -- that does not control the executive or legislative branches, for example
Your answer:
opposition party
two-party system
Democratic Party
proportional representation
- A district in which only the candidate with the largest number of votes wins election to public office
Your answer:
broker party district
single-member district
congressional district
legislative district