Chapter 6 Test

1.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 1:
*When the constitution went into effect in 1789, the right to votw in the U.S. was restricted to white male property owners.Not one in 15 adult white males could vote in elections in the different states.The size of the American electorate which is the potential voting population. The history of American sufferage since 1789 has been marked by two long-term trends.


2.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 2:
* Every state requires that any person who wants to vote must be able to satisfy qualifications based on 3 factors. One of those factors is citizenship, the second factor is residence, and the third factor is age. The states have leeway for the first and second factors but wants nothing to do with the third factor.


3.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 3:
*  The first law passed by congress to implement the 15th amendment know as the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The Act gave the attorney general the powerto seek federal court orders to prevent interference with and person's right to votein any federal election. The Civil Rights Act added a safeguard. The officers were to serve anywhere a federal court found voter discrimination.

4.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 4:

* The studies of education voter behavior reveal that there is also a lose relationship between the level of a voter's education and how he or she votes. College graduates  vote for republicans higher percentages than do high-school graduates.


5. Explain voter apathy and what can be done to help it:
* It is often cited as a cause of low turnout among eligible voters. We need to increase the amount of sophistication of civic education in our homes and schools. Also, develop policies that address the central concerns of the electorate, while realigning and strengthening  the two-party system.


6. Explain the qualifications for registering to vote:

* That you must me at voting age of 18. They use registration which is a procedure of voter identification intended to prevent fraudulent voting. It gives the officals a list of those persons who are qualified to vote in a election.

Political Parties

The republican party was first born in the year1854. The new party put forward a radical vision of modernizing the United States it emphasized free farms for farmers, banking, railroads, and industry. Most of the members were Whigs, and others had been democrats or they had been members of the third party. Any democrats who joined were awarded with a seat in the U.S. senate. Ripon, Wisconsin held the first county convention on March 20, 1854. From 1860 to 1932, the Republican Party was dominant, as the Democrats elected only two presidents, Grover Cleveland  (in 1884 and 1892) and Woodrow Wilson (in 1912 and 1916).  The republicans don't aprove of abortion.

The democratic party of the United States is an account of the oldest political party in the United States and arguably the oldest democratic party in the world. .It dominated American politics during the Second Party System, from 1832 the mid-1850s. After 1830, the Democratic Party drew support from a cross section of the country.  During the Third Party System the (1854-1896) the Democrats became the minority in the face of the newly formed Republican Party. The democrats lost consecutive presidential elections from the years 1860-1880. The democrats next victory in the presidential election was in 1884. The democrats believe in abortion.

I think in the years coming up when i vote I'm choosing to be republican because it runs in my family and I don't approve of abortion at all think that babies should be adopted instead of killed. I learned that republican party was dominant from the years 1860-1932. I believe in changes and i think the republicans are good about getting changes changed and making ourselves heard.

Assingment #4

The republicans swept the votes over the democrats . Dennis Daugaard was selected to be our next governor. Kristi Noem was elected over Stephanie Herseth. The major bills that were going on were legalizing  marijuana and the smoking bans. The legalizing marijuana bill failed and the smoking ban passed. The smoking ban in South Dakota will be put in to effect in restaurants, bars and varying hotel rooms. 

The National results were all basically democrats. In the national results there is already talk about the new presidency for the year 2012.