This is term for the division of powers (separate but at times overlapping) between national and state powers.
What is federalism
100
This amendment in the Constitution guaranteed equal rights for blacks.
What is the fourteenth
100
Name two key elements of U.S. Political culture from your book (hint: there are 5)
What are liberty, equality, democracy, civic duty and individual responsibility
100
According to polls, which group are Americans most willing to help?
A. People on welfare
B. Feminists
C. The elderly
D. Recent Immigrants
E. Civil rights groups seeking preferential hiring programs
What is the elderly (C)
100
The 104th Congress (1994-1995) block granted the following federal aid program:
A. Medicaid
B. food stamps
C. Medicare
D. Aid to Families with Dependent Children
E. None of the Above
What is the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (D)
200
An interest group with a strong following in only one region of the country would have best chance to achieve its goals under what type of government system?
A. Unitary
B. Federal
C. Provincial
D. Republican
What is Federal (B)
200
Most forms of economic activity are now included under what type of commerce?
What is interstate
200
Americans tend to believe in equality of opportunity but not ___________ equality.
What is economic or equality of results
200
In recent decades how has public confidence in political institutions changed?
What is it has gone down or decreased
200
Name the early Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who generally gave broadest possible sweep of federal powers through his rulings.
Who is John Marshall
300
Define nullification.
What is states authority to declare federal law null and void if it violated the U.S. Constitution.
300
The process that protects citizens from imprisonment without trial.
What is due process
300
If people say that have a strong sense of _____________, then they believe they have a say in what government does.
What is political efficacy
300
Which religious leader or group advocated amendments that would require prayer in public schools and ban abortion?
A. Great Awakening
B. Moral Majority
C. Prohibitionist
D. MLK Jr.
E. Rev. Jesse Jackson
What is Moral Majority (B)
300
This is a grant with some guidelines, but overall broad
What is block grant
400
James Madison was a strong supporter of what level of government?
What is national (states rights come second)
400
By ruling that the federal government cannot require local police to conduct background checks on all gun purchases, the court held that to do so would be a violation of this amendment.
What is tenth (states rights)
400
Compare Americans sense of political efficacy compared to most Europeans.
What is it is must higher
400
The most important source of political values in the U.S. is probably...
A. the mass media
B. the family
C. religion
D. the public schools
What is family (B)
400
The textbook argues that the U.S. Constitution had to reconcile personal __________ with the need for social control.
What is liberty or freedom of choice
500
In United States programs such as highway systems, services to the unemployed and drinking age are most accurately powers in what level of government?
What is state; although federal government seeks to regulate them but they are not enumerated powers listed in Constitution.
500
Of the following, which has been used most to expand the power of the national government
A. commerce clause of the Constitution
B. the habeas corpus clause of the Constitution
C. First Amendment
D. Fifth Amendment
What is commerce clause (A)
500
Name the French observer who noted the influence of Democracy in a variety of contexts in the U.S.
Who is Alexis de Tocqueville
500
Social policy in the United States is dominated by this common belief among Americans
What is ethic of self-reliance
500
What notion did the decision in the court case McCulloch v. Maryland establish?