AP Gov Unit 2 Review

Congress

100

These are the 2 Chambers of Congress.

What are the Senate and House of Representatives?

200

This Chamber has the power to initiate bills

What is the House of Representatives?

300

This is the process when congressional district boundaries are redrawn.

What is Redistricting?

400

This is the difference between a standing committee and a select committee.

idk how to format this bru. A standing committee is permanant, a select committee is formed for a quicker process like conducting an investigation. 

500

This is the process that a majority would limit the political electability power of a group that they don't want to have power. 

What is gerrymandering?

The Presidency

100

This is the system that gives votes to a president to win.

What is the electoral college?

200

This is the way that a president can strike down a bill without officially vetoing the bill.

What is the pocket veto?

300

This is a way that a president can have something accomplished without having to pass a law through both chambers of Congress.

What is an executive order?

400

This is the difference between a formal and informal power of the president.

How are formal powers listed in the Constitution, explicitly stated and gives power to the president, and informal powers aren't officially listed in the Constitution but have been used by past presidents and exist through tradition. 

500

This is a way that a president can influence the public mind and draw their attention to a specific issue.

What is the bully-pulpit?

The Courts

100

This is the highest court in the United States.

What is the Supreme Court?

200

There are this many Supreme Justices.

How many is 7?

300

This power was established for the Courts in Marbury v. Madison.

What is the power of Judicial Review?

400

This is the difference between original and appellatte jurisdiction. 

Original jurisdiction is the ability to listen to any case, and appellatte jurisdiction is the ability for any court to listen to cases that are below it. 

500

This is the way that a decision is reached in the Supreme Court.

What is the rule of 4?

Checks & Balances

100

Congress can do this if the president vetoes a bill

What is an veto override?

200

The judicial branch has this power over the legislative branch.

What is the power of judicial review?

300

This is how the Senate can check the president's power in his appointments.

What is reject the president's cabinet appointments?

400

Explain how impeachment is an example of checks and balances.

If the president is not meeting the demands of the country and being completely ridiculous, Congress can start the motion to impeach the president through a majority of votes.

500

Give a recent example of checks and balances being used.

President Trump being impeached following the January 6th insurrection

Key Documents & Court Cases

100

This document outlines the separation of powers in government. 

What is the Constitution?

200

This was the argument Federalist 51.

What is addressing the separation of powers and describing the checks and balances each branch had on the others to ensure no branch became too powerful?

300

This was the effect of Plessy v Ferguson.

What is the establishment of separate but equal?

400

This is what Gibbons v Ogden did. 

It established Congress' ability to regulate commerce and even some intrastate commerce.

500

This was the impact of Baker v Carr on redistricting.

What is making redistricting an issue that can be reviewed in judicial courts?