Be able to identify:
Liberal and Conservative
positions on the following issues:
a.
School Prayer
b.
Regulation of Business
c.
Affirmative Action
d.
Federal Funding of Education
e.
Welfare
f.
Medical Care
g.
Abortion
h.
Social Security
The more conservative major
party
The more liberal major party
Platform differences between
the two major parties on the following issues:
a.
Gun control
b.
Minimum wage
c.
Defense spending
d.
Government spending in general
e.
Taxes
f.
Abortion
g.
Health care / insurance
h.
Government regulations
How the following groups tend
to vote (more Democrat or more Republican?):
a. By age
b. By
race
c. By
marital status
d. By
income
e. By
level of education
f.
Workingwomen
g.
The white religious right
h.
Union members
i. Gay /
lesbian
List 3 reasons people do not
vote
In general, what is voter
turnout in federal elections?
What groups of people are
more and less likely to vote?
Left and right politically
speaking
List the two major parties
List 1 minor party and describe
what it stands for.
The symbols of both major
parties
List 5 interest groups and
what each stands for.
Be able to answer the
following questions:
Where are most teenagers on
the political spectrum?
Where are most
older persons on the political spectrum?
What type of party system do
we have in this country?
What is suffrage?
What are the two major
newspapers in
Which major national
newspapers are more liberal/conservative?
Which major national news
networks are more liberal/conservative?
Be able to identify (in a
matching format) the different propaganda techniques.
Be able to identify (in a
matching format) the significance of Amendments 11-27.