Unit 3 topics mind map.

1. Elections

1.1. Voting Rights over time (15th, 19th, 23rd, 26th Amendments). The 15th amendment allows any man to vote to mean that African Americans gained the right to vote. The 19th amendment allows women to vote as well. The 23rd amendment allows people who live in D.C to vote. The 26th amendment lowered the legal voting age to 18.

1.2. Barriers to voting and laws that removed them (24th Amendment, Voting Rights Act of 1965). Barriers to voting included the poll tax and hard poll questions which made it so only the educated or wealthy could vote in elections. The 24th amendment made sure that everybody is qualified to vote.

1.3. Current requirements to vote, to vote you have to be 18 years old, be registered to vote, and also be a citizen of the United States

2. Political Parties

2.1. Jobs of political parties, they are groups of people who have the same ideology or who have the same political positions and they help promote candidates for elections because those candidates have the same ideals as their party.

2.2. Democrats and symbol, the symbol for democrats is the donkey.

2.3. Republicans and symbol, the symbol for republicans is the elephant

2.4. At least 2 beliefs of dems and republicans Republicans believe in a smaller federal government and a trickle down tax system. Democrats focus on a progressive system of taxation that taxes mainly the rich. They also believe in opening borders to let people into the country.

2.5. First two political parties, the first two political parties were the federalists and the democratic republicans.

2.6. Difference in belief about size of government between Left and Right. Left believes in a larger government where the federal government has a lot more power over the citizens. The right believes in a smaller government where the citizens have more control.

2.7. Third Parties - specifically the Green Party and Libertarian Party and main belief of both. The main beliefs of the green party are focused on environmental needs and social justice. The Libertarian party likes the idea of the government being less involved in social issues. They don't have stances on many social issues because they feel parties shouldn't be involved like that.

3. Campaigns

3.1. Campaign finance (how are campaigns financed?). Campaigns are financed by their political party supporters. Senators can also help by asking from money from supporters and candidates can also donate their own money toward their campaign.

3.2. SuperPACs - What are they? How much can people donate to them? Can they donate directly to candidates? Super PACs are basically groups that help finance political campaigns they help in the donation process to campaigns and they allow larger amounts of money to be donated to campaigns.

3.3. Citizens United v. FEC (2010). Citizens united was a court case that allows PACs to be able to donate as much money as they want to donate to a campaign and gives corporations free speech guaranteed by the first amendment.

3.4. Persuasive techniques (choose 2 and define them). Two persuasive techniques are plain folks and card stacking. Plain folks is using everyday people in ads to show that the politicians are just like the American Public. Card stacking is the use of facts for one side and not having any good things to say about the other side.