AP Government EXAM Review

Do you feel lucky?

10

John Locke's three basic rights that must be protected by government.

What are life liberty and property?

20

The practice of drawing electoral district boundaries to benefit a particular political party or group, often resulting in districts with unusual, non-compact shapes.

Gerrymandering

30

This government agency regulates the broadcast of media outlets

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

40

The relationship between government agencies, congressional committees, and interest groups in specific policy areas

Iron Triangle

50

This is the term used when a president cannot get an agenda adopted by Congress, then the president may use which of the following techniques to appeal directly to the people of the United States

Bully Pulpit

Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

10

Significant person(s) and the Amendment that expanded women's right to vote

Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

19th

20

Which division of government was most responsible for expanding the rights of accused criminals during the 1960s

What is the supreme court?

30

This amendment and what clause states that states Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion.

What is the 1st amendment establishment clause?

40

This important piece of 1960s legislation created equal employment opportunities, regardless of race, equal access to public accommodations regardless of race, religion, or national origin and the withholding federal grants-in-aid from state programs that discriminated on the basis of race?

What is the 1964 Civil Rights Act

50

This Supreme Court case made the Jim Crow Laws (Black codes) illegal.

Plessy vs Ferguson

Supreme Court

10

Tinker v. Des Moines clause

Free exercise clause

20

The amendment used to incorporate in McDonald v. Chicago?

2nd

30

Corporations allowed to donate to political groups

Citizens United vs Federal Election Commission

40

These are powers shared by both national and state governments. An example is the power to tax.

Concurrent powers

50

Baker vs Carr and Shaw vs Reno have this common

Gerrymandering

Constitutional Convention

10

This plan for national government, written by James Madison, created an executive and legislative branch that would be dominated by larger populated states.

What is the Virginia Plan

20

This compromise satisfied southern fears that the north would fund the national government with a tax on exports?

What is the slave trade and commerce compromise?

30

This event served as a dramatic example of the failure of the Articles of Confederation?

What is Shay's Rebellion?

40

Worried that states would not be able to select competent choices to serve as the chief executive in this process electors were selected by states and "directed" by the popular vote to select a president.

What is the electoral college?

50

Nine of the thirteen states.

What is the number of states that needed to ratify the constitution in order for it to take effect.

The Constitution

10

Supreme Court cases established judicial review

Marbury vs Madison

20

What branch of government was viewed by the framers of the Constitution as the center of policy making in the United States?

What is Congress?

30

This U.S. Constitutional Amendment outlawed slavery.

What is the 13th amendment?

40

This is how many Articles there are in the US Constitution

7

50

The Constitution is silent regarding the ability of the national government to establish a draft. However this power is linked to the Article I, section 8 power for congress to "raise an army". This makes the draft what kind of power?

What is an implied power?