People, Politics, Participation
The Constitution
Federalism
Civil Liberties
Civil Rights
100
An integrated system of beliefs about politics is called this.
What is a political ideology?
100
What branches of government did we have under the Articles of Confederation?
What is the Congress?
100
This is the term for the ability to regulate trade, coin money, provide an army and navy, conduct foreign affairs, set up federal courts, etc.
What are Enumerated (Expressed) Powers?
100
How many amendments are in the Bill of rights?
What are ten?
100
This court case created he idea of “separate but equal” policy and legalized segregation in the US.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
This is a system in which an elite class holds power. This can sometimes take the from of a dictatorship.
What is an oligarchy?
200
Explain the plan that was known as the Great Compromise.
What is there would be both a House and Senate to provide both population and equal representation?
200
Describe three characteristics of a Unitary System.
What are hierarchical, has a centralized power, subdivisions carry out or enforce policy decisions, and efficient but may lack connection to the people?
200
This is the belief that civil liberties should dominate over security and other issues.
What is the Preferred Position.
200
This was the first major even that MLK, Jr. helped to organize. It propelled him to national status.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
300
This is the belief that one can understand politics and therefore participate in politics.
What is internal efficacy?
300
Rather than having a Greek-style democracy, our founding fathers set up this type of government.
What is a republic or a representative/indirect democracy?
300
What amendment reserves powers to the people and the states?
What is the 10th Amendment?
300
What is the No Prior Restraint Rule?
What is that government cannot stop the presses; there can be no advance censoring of the news?
300
These are three examples of Black Codes legislation that we discussed in class.
What are the grandfather clause, literacy tests, white primaries, annual registration laws, poll taxes, etc.?
400
These are three prominent social contract theorists that we discussed.
Who are Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau?
400
These are three things that were imposed under the Intolerable Acts.
What are they close the port in Boston, put the government under British authority, reaffirm quartering, change the border of Canada, and allow trials to be held in the UK?
400
These are allocated based on need or capacity as delineated by specific mathematical functions.
What are formula grants?
400
What does the Lemon Test try to ensure?
What is separation of church and state or religious neutrality?
400
This was the first organized women's suffrage event in the US.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?
500
These are three roles that the government is commonly expected to have.
What are to have a national defense to protect sovereign territory and citizens; to preserve order and stability; to establish and maintain a legal system; to provide services; and, to raise and spend money?
500
These are the three things that were accomplished under the Second Continental Congress.
What are writing he Articles of Confederation, creating a Model Treaty, and drafting the Declaration of Independence?
500
Name three Concurrent Powers.
What are enforcing the laws, establishing courts, building infrastructure (e.g. roads), collecting taxes borrowing money, providing for the general welfare, etc.
500
These are three protections in the 6th Amendment.
What are a speedy trial, public trial, impartial jury, trial in the state where the crime is committed (unless there is a need for a change of venue), to be informed of charges against you, to confront witnesses against you, a process for obtaining defense witnesses, the right to an attorney?
500
This is the amendment that abolishes the poll tax.
What is the 24th Amendment?
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