Chap. 6 Test

1.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 1:
     The Expansion of the Electorate: In 1789, the right to vote in the U.S. was restricted to the white male prperty owners. The voting population is very impressive. Age of 18 years can now vote. In 1789 the nation has experieaced the gradual elimination of several restrictions on the right to vote such as religious beliefs, property ownership, tax payment, and sex. The States' poewer on the right to vote has been assumed by the Federal Government.


2.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 2:
     Tax Payment: Several States demanded the payment of a special tax call the poll tax for voting. In 1889, the southern States adopted the poll tax as part of their effort to discourage voting by African Americans. It provided to be of only limited effectiveness. The 24th Amendment was ratified in 1964, outlawed the poll tax or any other tax. The Supreme Court eliminated the poll tas as a qualification for voting in all elections in 1966.


3.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 3:
     The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Civil Rights Act outlaws discrimination in several areas, especially in job-related matters.  It forbids the use of any boter registration or literacy requirement in an unfair or discriminatory manner.  The law continued a pattern set in the earlier laws. It relied on judicial action to overcome racial barriers and the use of federal court orders called the injunction. The injunction is a court order that either compels forces or restrains the performance of some act by a private individual or by a public official.


4.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 4:
     Factors That Influence Voters:  Sociology is a study of groups and how people vote. The factors  affecting voter behavior are really the many pieces of a voter's social and economic life. The two pieces are the voter's personal characteristics like age, race, income, occupation, education, religion and so on. The second ts the voter's group affiliations like family, co-workers, friends, and the like. The Psychology is the study of the mind and of the individual behavior. The factors influence voter behavior on perceptons of politics.


5. Explain voter apathy and what can be done to help it:
    In the presidental elections and in the off-year elections are now in the lowest rate of voter participation in the world.  More than half of America's nonparticipants are nonvoters- people who have never voted or hardly ever vote. Most American's are dropping out of the political process and there is a very real danger that the good citizenship will die.  We need in increase the amount and of civic education in homes and schools. Also we need to get each citizen to vote because the vote does make a difference.


6. Explain the qualifications for registering to vote
   The registration gives election officials a list of thos persons who are qualified to vote in an election. Also Several states use ir to identify voters in terms of their party. They have to register in order to vote in any election held within the State. The voter must register their name, age, place of birth, present address, length of residence and similar facts.  The Moter Voter Law directs to every State to allow all eligible citizens to register and to apply or renew a driver's license. It provides for voter registration by mail and makes registration forms available at local offices of State employment,  and welfare.

Assignment #5

Using the Internet, research for a minimum of 15mins- the history of the two major political parties in our government. Report your findings for both the Republicans and the Democrats.
Then share which party you see yourself supporting in the past, present and future and why you feel you support that party or parties. When finished you should have around 3-4 paragraphs.
   Republican Party: Also known as the GOP, from its earlier nickname, Grand Old Party. Republicans have occupied the White House for 84 years. The strength came from New England and the Midwest. The party is more conservative with is support coming from the upper middle class.The stimulus for its founding was provided by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The law repealed compromises that had excluded slavery from the territories.
  Deomocratic Party: This party follows a liberal viewpoint when it comes to making political desicions. It's one of the oldest official political parties in the world and in the U.S. In 2004, the party held over 70 million registered voters. The Democratic parties are represented by the color blue and a symbol of a donkey. The main point of the Party was to give a voice to individuals who were not wealthy. In 1792, Thomas Jefferson started the Democratic Party to oppose the Federalist Party to fight for the Bill of Rights. Thomas Jefferson was elected as the first President from the Democratic Party in 1800. The party is helped  with serving the lower and middle classes by government programs such as Welfare and free or low cost medical insurance. These parties typically rule large states.

I see myself supporting in the past is the Democatic Party. They wanted to help individuals who were not wealthy and have own rights.
In the present, I think I am an Independant. I can go both ways. We want our own rights and no slavery and no racisim.
In the future, I really don't know what I will be. I might still be an Independent, going both ways.

Assignment #4

Give your view on the national results and the local results.  Both the candidates and the initiative measures.
Two paragraphs minimum.

Local:  Kristi Noem won the House of Representitives with  153,678 votes.  Dennis Daugaard won Governer with 195,018 votes and John Thune is the Senate. The measure for medical marijuana did not pass with 63% saying no and 37% saying yes. The Admendment K did pass with 79% and  21% saying no. South Dakota is now banning smoking in bars and resturaunts. Some worry about their buisnesses by losing money because smokers will have no where to go. Marijuana cauld be a very good thing to help people with but they looked as it as how people would use it in the bad way. The smoking ban i could go both ways. It would help the people who don't smoke and the people who have their own bars can't smoke. Bars is usualy where all the people go to smoke and they can't anymore, that's kind of not fair to them.

National: Most of the U.S is Republican. In Oklahoma they banned mandatory health care plans, Kansas got gun rights, and in Arizona they said no to have the right to hunt and fish and many more in Arizona. Lots of these new laws will screw people up or do good. Some are dissapointed and some are happy. I guess they and us just have to obey by the new laws.