25 American Government Questions

Need done by midnight. Pretty easy... 1. Which American President warned his fellow citizens to shun partisan politics? 2. What role does the American electoral system play in the structure of a political party? 3. What issue ended the Democratic Party’s dominance in politics until it recovered in the 1930s? 4. Northern Democrats opposing the Civil War. 5. Broke up the New Deal coalition. 6. First presidential candidate of the Republican Party. 7. This event ended the Republican Party’s dominance. 8. The first time the Republicans won control of both houses of Congress since the 1950s. 9. The two major parties in the United States in the 1830s and 1840s. 10. Issue that led to the death of the Whig party. 11. What is a divided government? 12. What was Nixon’s “southern strategy”? 13. What percentage of the popular vote did Ross Perot win in the 1992 presidential election? 14. Functions of the state and local party organizations. 15. What is soft money? 16. Status of partisan ties in the United States in recent years? 17. Which party are women somewhat more likely to support? Men? 18. What was Bill Clinton’s policy of triangulation? 19. What is electoral realignment? 20. Function of a party’s national convention. 21. What is a party platform? 22. Founder of the Democratic Party. 23. Describe the political spectrum. 24. Identify: political socialization, political ideology, political orientation. 25. What are some of the foundational values that we believe in regardless of your political ideology.