Name:



Name:       U.S. History I

Date:       Mr. Melhorn

Period:      

Unit II. Citizenship, Voting, Public Opinion, and Local Government

Voting and Elections

1. What do you have to do to be eligible to vote?      

2. What does the average Pennsylvania voting machine look like?

3. What is the Electoral College and how does it work?

- How many total electoral college votes are there?      

- How many does it take to win the presidency?      

- How do we figure out how many electoral college votes every state gets?      

- How many votes doe Pennsylvania have?      

- Which state has the most and how many do they have?      

- Which state has the second most and how many do they have?      

- Which states split up their electoral college votes?      

- How may the electoral college give each state some power in comparison to if

we would have a popular vote election system?      

4. What role is the media supposed to have in elections?      

What party does the following news station favor? Fox News      

CNN-       MSNBC-       CNBC-      

5. What is the purpose of an interest group?      

Go to the Heavy Hitters section of the website and find the following interest groups and political action committees. In the first blank, define the acronym (if there is one) and define what they stand for. In the second blank, how much money did they give in the year(s) offered.

Examples of interest groups: AARP-            

NRA-            

Emily’s List-            

AFL-CIO-            

UAW-            

NEA-            

Teamsters-            

ActBlue-            

What are three business groups that you can find at in the Heavy Hitters section of the website that you have heard of before, how much money did they donate in the years offered, and hypothesize why they may be donating such a huge amount of money to political candidates? -      

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Citizenship

6. Define Citizen-     

7. List 10 duties involved in being a good citizen:

a.       f.      

b.       g.      

c.       h.      

d.       i.      

e.       j.      

8. How does one acquire citizenship?

a. Jus Soli-     

b. Jus Sanguines-     

c. Naturalization-     

9. What are the requirements that must be met in order to become a naturalized citizen?

     

-What are the steps in the process of naturalization?      

Local Government

10. Name the main forms of local government:      

11. What are some of the main powers of local governments?

a.      

b.      

c.      

d.      

e.      

f.      

g.      

h.      

i.      

12. Define the following local government positions:

a. County Commissioners-      

b. District Attorney-     

c. Mayor-     

d. Prothonotary-     

e. Clerk of Courts-     

f. Recorder of Deeds-     

g. Register of Wills-     

h. Solicitor-     

i. County Coroner-     

j. County Controller-     

l. City or Township Manager-     

m. Code-     

n. Ordinance-     

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