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Money provided by the federal government to state/local government for a specific project or progam.
What is grants-in-aid?
100
First 10 amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of rights?
100
National government's use of grants to influence state and local government policies and programs.
What is Fiscal Federalism?
100
Legislature established in Virginia in 1619-the first representative government in the American colonies.
What is House of Burgesses?
100
Document that extended protections of Magna Carta to commoners in Britain.
What is Petition of right (1628)?
200
Rebellion of farmers in Massachusetts that demonstrated inability of weak national government under Articles of Confederation to maintain order.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
200
Grants not for a specific program, but for a specific purpose; states write grant proposals and compete for funding for projects.
What is Categorical Grants?
200
Landmark case established supremacy of U.S. government over state government.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)?
200
Constitution stated 9 of the 13 states had to ratify for it too go into effect.
What is Ratification of U.S. Consititution (1788)?
200
A legislature with only one "house" or body of representatives.
What is Unicameral Legislature?
300
Constitution allows state governments to enter into agreements with other states.
What is Interstate Compacts?
300
Article VI declares the Constitution to be the supreme law of the land.
What is Supremacy Clause?
300
Compromise in Consitution prohibiting government from stopping slave trade or imposing export taxes for 20 years after retification.
What is Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise?
300
A legislature with two "houses" or bodies of representatives.
What is Bicameral Legislature?
300
Compromise between large and small states at Consitutional Convention.
What is Connecticut Compromise?
400
Attempt to limit dependence of candidates on contributions from wealthy interest groups.
What is Public Financing of Prensidential Campaigns?
400
Concept that national and state governments shared policymaking power and should cooperate.
What is Cooperative Federalism?
400
Constitution establishes process for amending the Constitution by adding new text.
What is Amendments to U.S. Constitution?
400
Example; At one time giving women the right to vote was a radical position; is now widely accepted across the political spectrum.
What is Shifts in the Political Spectrum?
400
Advantages; Greater stability and focus on center of political spectrum. Disadvantages; Voters have limited choice of candidates and party ideologies.
What is Advantages/Disadvantages of Two-Party System?
500
Since the Civil War, the two dominant parties have been Democratic and Republican.
What is U.S. Two-Party System?
500
To refer to the voters who identify with the party.
What is Common Usages of "Political Party"?
500
Practice of giving government jobs as rewards to political supporters.
What is Patronage?
500
Ensures a nonpartisan bureaucracy.
What is Hatch Act?
500
People who work to strengthen the party by raising money, registering voters, etc.
What is Party Organization?
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