Erosion
Study Guide
Unit 5: Executive Branch
Government
Reading
Textbook
Activity:
Tests:
Chapter 13: The Presidency—Road to the White House
Chapter 14: The Presidency—America’s Highest Office
Chapter 15: The Federal Bureaucracy
Chapter 16: Foreign Policy
Health Care Reform in America - Choices
Health Care Cartoon
Health Care Game
Unit V Test
Chapter 13: Terms
Direct primaries – preliminary election held to select candidates and/or delegates to the party’s convention Caucus – a form of district and state conventions used to nominate candidates in areas that do not hold primaries
Closed primaries – a primary in which participants must be registered as members of one party and may vote only for the candidates from that party
Open primaries – primaries in which voters do not have to declare their party membership
Crossover voting – to vote for a weak candidate in the opposing party’s primary, causing confusion or greater difficulty in the opponent’s nomination
Party platform – formal statement of a party’s position on current issues; drafted at a party’s national convention
Superdelegates - party leaders and officeholders who serve as uncommitted delegates at the party convention
Keynote address – speech made at the national convention by a leading party member
Brokered convention – a convention requiring lengthy balloting and an eventual settlement by means of bargaining and compromise
Balance the ticket – the practice of choosing a running mate based on specific ideology, geography, race, gender, or other characteristics in order to strengthen one’s own chance of being elected
General election – the election used to fill elective offices, at the national level it is held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November
Unit 1: Foundations
Government
Exit polls – public opinion polls taken by various polling agencies as voters leave their polling place; used to predict election outcomes
Electoral College –
Unit 5: Executive Branch
Government
Reading
Textbook
Activity:
Tests:
Chapter 13: The Presidency—Road to the White House
Chapter 14: The Presidency—America’s Highest Office
Chapter 15: The Federal Bureaucracy
Chapter 16: Foreign Policy
Health Care Reform in America - Choices
Health Care Cartoon
Health Care Game
Unit V Test
Chapter 13: Terms
Direct primaries – preliminary election held to select candidates and/or delegates to the party’s convention Caucus – a form of district and state conventions used to nominate candidates in areas that do not hold primaries
Closed primaries – a primary in which participants must be registered as members of one party and may vote only for the candidates from that party
Open primaries – primaries in which voters do not have to declare their party membership
Crossover voting – to vote for a weak candidate in the opposing party’s primary, causing confusion or greater difficulty in the opponent’s nomination
Party platform – formal statement of a party’s position on current issues; drafted at a party’s national convention
Superdelegates - party leaders and officeholders who serve as uncommitted delegates at the party convention
Keynote address – speech made at the national convention by a leading party member
Brokered convention – a convention requiring lengthy balloting and an eventual settlement by means of bargaining and compromise
Balance the ticket – the practice of choosing a running mate based on specific ideology, geography, race, gender, or other characteristics in order to strengthen one’s own chance of being elected
General election – the election used to fill elective offices, at the national level it is held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November
Unit 1: Foundations
Government
Exit polls – public opinion polls taken by various polling agencies as voters leave their polling place; used to predict election outcomes
Electoral College –