2. 200 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 300 Public Opinion Interest Groups Today’s Political Parties Bill of Rights Constitutional Principles

3. -Generic term for what the majority of the public may believe about an issue, but it can be very misleading as a majority may represent only 51%. Row 1---100 Question

4. -public opinion Row 1---100 Answer

5. -This is a term for television, radio, newspapers, and magazines that influence opinion. Row 1---200 Question

6. -mass media Row 1---200 Answer

7. -This term represents how we attempt to measure the opinion of the public? Row 1---300 Question

8. -public opinion poll Row 1---300 Answer

9. -This term describes how we try to measure the public’s opinion in a fair and consistent manner to get the best results? Row 1---400 Question

10. -random sample Row 1---400 Answer

11. -Term for a group of people with similar beliefs about an issue. Row 1---500 Question

12. -interest group Row 1---500 Answer

13. -Term that refers to a person is has already formed an opinion or listens only to one side. Row 2---100 Question

14. -biased Row 2---100 Answer

15. -This term refers to a person who has not made a decision and is willing to listen to all sides of an issue. Row 2---200 Question

16. -impartial Row 2---200 Answer

17. Row 2---300 Question -This is the act of trying to influence legislators to support a certain issue.

18. -lobbying Row 2---300 Answer

19. Row 2---400 Question -Name an interest group that represents a particular group of people?

20. - Row 2---400 Answer

21. -Name an interest group that represents a particular interest or cause? Row 2---500 Question

22. - Row 2---500 Answer

23. -Name one way in which parties help keep citizens informed? Row 3---100 Question

24. - Row 3---100 Answer

25. -Name one way in which parties help keep citizens informed? Row 3---200 Question

26. - Row 3---200 Answer

27. -This term describes a movement that is begun by common people? Row 3---300 Question

28. -grassroots movement Row 3---300 Answer

29. -These are elections are do not allow the use of political parties---usually for position that are seen as non-political such as school boards? Row 3---400 Question

30. -non-partisan elections Row 3---400 Answer

31. -Name one reason why parties are weaker today than in the past? Row 3---500 Question

32. -less loyalty, non- partisan elections, mass media influences Row 3---500 Answer

33. -Name the concept that all three branches of government are designed so that they have the ability to stop other branches from becoming abusive? Row 4---100 Question

34. -checks and balances Row 4---100 Answer

35. -This term means that people have the right to rule themselves through the democratic process of voting? Row 4---200 Question

36. -popular sovereignty Row 4---200 Answer

37. -What term describes the system of having multiple governments on the national, state, and local levels? Row 4---300 Question

38. -federalism Row 4---300 Answer

39. -These are powers that are shared by all levels of government such as the power to tax, pass laws, and enforce laws? Row 4---400 Question

40. -concurrent powers Row 4---400 Answer

41. -These are powers that are only given to the states such as education, marriage laws, zoning regulations? Row 4---500 Question

42. -reserved powers Row 4---500 Answer

43. -List all five parts of the 1st Amendment? Row 5---100 Question

44. -speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition Row 5---100 Answer

45. -What right does the 2nd protect? Row 5---200 Question

46. -right to bear arms Row 5---200 Answer

47. -The 5th describes this power of the government to take land from citizens when needed for public benefit as long as the citizen is compensated. Row 5---300 Question

48. -eminent domain Row 5---300 Answer

49. -This right says that all citizens are guaranteed fair treatment by the government? Row 5---400 Question

50. -due process Row 5---400 Answer

51. -This is the right of all citizens to not be charged with the same crime after they have been acquitted by a jury of that same crime. Row 5---500 Question

52. -double jeopardy Row 5---500 Answer