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`AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

Study Guide

Exam II

Thoroughly read the assigned chapters. Then go back and give particular attention to the following terms, events, concepts or individuals:

MEDIA (Chapter 6)

Prime Minister Tony Blair

Representative John Conyers

Watchdog

Pew Research Center

Alternative news

Blog

Associated Press

Corporate Ownership

Media monopoly

Rupert Murdoch

Infotainment

Uniform Crime Report

National Crime Victimization Survey

Watergate

News management

Spin

Objective journalism

Pundits

Nationalism

Prior Restraint

Federal Communications Commission

Telecommunications Act of 1996

Fairness doctrine of 1949

Child Online Protection Act of 1998

INTEREST GROUPS & BUSINESS CORPORATIONS (Chapter 7)

Deepwater Horizon

Deregulation

The Federalist, No. 10

Disturbance theory

The inside game

Lobbying Congress

Political action Committee

Citizens United v. The Federal Election Commission (2009)

Iron triangle

Charles Lindblom

CAFE (corporate average fuel economy)

McCain-Feingold bill

Earmark

Jack Abramoff

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (Chapter 8)

Angelina Grimke

Seneca Falls Declaration

Nineteenth Amendment

Secularization

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Antiglobalization Movement

Undocumented Immigrants Movement

Tea Party Movement

Political efficacy

Stonewall rebellion

Montgomery bus boycott

Civil disobedience

Woolworth’s store, February 1, 1960

Repressed Social Movements

POLITICAL PARTIES (Chapter 9)

John Boehner

Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Moderate

Partisan

Multiparty system

Proportional representation

“Parties at war” era

Bipartisanship

“Rallying the base”

VOTING, CAMPAIGNS, & ELECTIONS (Chapter 10)

Public camping financing

Electoral competition model

Retrospective voting model

Franchise

Party caucus

Seventeenth Amendment

Voting factors as they relate to:

Income and education

Race and ethnicity

Age and gender

Hard money

Federal Election Commission (FEC)

Political Action Committees (PACs)