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Across 5. Party supported by African-Americans when it was created, but it is not true today 6. Current Democratic President 7. Function party that is not the majority serves when it criticizes the party in power 9. Number of major parties in American politics today 10. Title given to the current officeholder who is running for re-election 13. Ideology most commonly assoicated with Republicans 16. Party that was the main rival of the Democrats in the early 1800s 18. The Prohibition party is an example of this type of minor party (2 words) 22. Differences in the ways men and women vote (2 words) 26. Nation's first political party 27. Election in which voters choose who will represent the party on the ballot in a general election 28. Weakening party identification among voters (voters become more independent and do not identify with either party) 29. Conflicting groups (not political parties) - Madison wrote about these in Federalist Paper #10 30. Thomas Jefferson became the first Non-Federalist President as a member of this party (2 words)

Down 1. Type of minor party which advocates a comprehensive change in society (longest lasting) 2. When voters vote for Republicans and Democrats on the same ballot (2 words) 3. Amendment number that allowed people to popularly elect U.S. Senators 4. When a party encourages its members to only work with other members of the party 8. Party that currently has a majority in the House and Senate 11. Progressive reform that allows voters to remove an elected official from office in the middle of his/her term 12. When one party controls the Congress while the President is of the opposing party (2 words) 14. Ideology most commonly associated with Democrats 15. System in which several major and several minor parties compete to win elections and hold office 17. When two parties work together 19. Ongoing process whereby various agents shape attitudes, beliefs, and degree of participation 20. Strongest agent of political socialization 21. Beliefs about who ought to rule, their principles and policies 23. Issue over which the Democratic party was split in the mid 1800s 24. Wisconsin city where the modern Republican party was founded 25. Type of minor party that emerges when it splits away from a major party