When a popular candidate influences the success of other candidates on the same party ticket, it is called which of the following?
A. Partisan effect
B. Australian ballot
C. Butterfly ballot
D. Incumbent effect
E. Coat-tail effect
Answer: E
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a. the Hatch Act b. the elimination of the spoils system c. World War II d. the Pendleton Act
What was added to some state laws to ensure that whites who were illiterate or poor could still vote?
A) a poll tax B) a literacy test C) the white primary D) the legacy guarantee E) a grandfather clause
Which of the following characterized “the little cold war” from 1980 to 1985?
a. The number of nuclear weapons decreased, but their individual power increased. b. The U.S. and the Soviet Union moved more conventional forces to the borders of Western Europe and increased the harsh public rhetoric. c. Strategic arms limitation talks stalled, and President Reagan talked about fighting and winning a nuclear war. d. The number of nuclear weapons increased on both sides, but the international deployment of those weapons decreased.
The 1964 movement to register eligible black voters is known as ______.
a. a boycott b. Freedom Summer c. desegregation of the polls d. Jim Crow elimination