Vocabulary
Current Events
Supreme Court Decisions
Federal, State or Both?
American History (President Franklin D. Roosevelt)
100

Federal Systems

Structures of governance that divide a people's sovereignty between two or more levels of government 

100

According to the book nine states have legalized the personal possession and consumption of marijuana for recreational and medicinal purposes, name four.

Washington, California, Oregon, Nevada, Colorado, Alaska, Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. 

100

McCulloch v. Maryland relied on what clause?

Necessary and Proper Clause

100

Print money

Federal

100

President FDR was president during what major US event?

The Great Depression
200

Reserved Powers

Powers reserved to the states if not textually granted to the federal government

200

With the existing federal ban on marijuana, what is a consequence of driving across state lines with marijuana

Prosecution
200

Gibbons v. Ogden relied on what clause?

Commerce Clause

200
Tax imports or exports

Federal

200

FDR's response to the Great Depression was known as what?

New Deal

300

Necessary and Proper Clause (also known as the elastic clause)

a part of the Constitution that grants the federal government the authority to pass laws required to carry out its enumerated powers

300

This issue was a key factor in holding up marijuana legalization in NY


Social justice

300

What amendment was referenced in Barron v. Baltimore?

5th Amendment 

300

Impose taxes on goods and services exported and imported across state boundaries

State

300

The Second New Deal introduced new programs to help different groups, which one was focused on the elderly?

Social Security Act of 1935

400

Devolution

A national policy goal of returning more authority to state or local governments 

400

Trump is trying to derail this type of cannibus

Medicinal

400

What bank was involved in McCulloch v. Maryland?

Second Bank of the United States

400

Establish local, town, county, and regional bodies

State

400
What controversial act was introduced by FDR? It's purpose was to "drive prices up and put people back to work"

National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

500

Block Grant 

A type of grant-in-aid that gives state officials more authority in the disbursement of federal funds

500

In this proposal the president has called for ending existing federal protections that limit the federal government from interfering in the state-sanctioned regulation of medical cannabis.

2021 federal budget proposal

500

In Gibbons v. Ogden, Ogden was given a monopoly by what state?

New York

500

Determine voting qualifications

Federal and state

500

What decade was FDR inaugurated? 

1930s

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