American Government & Civic Engagement
This form of government has no legal limits:
What is a totalitarian government?
Allowed British settlers to impose their own rules in North American settlements:
What are Royal Charters?
Powers exclusively for state governments:
What are reserved powers?
Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures:
What is the 4th amendment?
This group loved to wear pointy white hats and terrorize communities of color:
What is the KKK?
3 Key values of American Political Culture:
The first U.S. constitution that granted too much power to state governments
What is the Articles of Confederation?
A power structure in which power is centralized in a national/central government:
What is a unitary system?
This case overturned Roe v Wade (a women's right to an abortion):
What is Dobbs v Jackson?
Amendments intended to undo the old Southern way of life:
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
Reasons government is needed (3) :
What is 1) maintaining order 2) protect inalienable/natural rights 3) provide public goods
This event directly led to the writing of a new Constitution:
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Overturned the Missouri Compromise and mandated that states had the power to regulate slavery:
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This court case ruled that state and local governments did not have to abide by the Bill of Rights:
What is Barron v Baltimore?
This case ruled overturned "separate but equal" & claimed the executive branch is responsible for enforcing desegregation:
What is Brown v Board of Education?
A limited role for the national government in helping individuals, and a support for traditional values:
What is Conservatism?
This established a bicameral legislature and settled divisions between large & small states.
What is the Great Compromise / Connecticut Plan?
Federal money that must be spent as the Federal
Government directs to the states:
What is a categorical grant?
This amendment forced state and local governments to abide by the Bill of Rights:
This act addressed inequality & discrimination by ending Jim Crow laws:
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The two key values of American political culture that conflict and why:
What is liberty and equality? One calls for limited government while the other calls for an active government
The institution in which representation is based on equal votes:
What is the Senate?
What is Plessey v. Ferguson?
What are the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th amendments?
This framework overturned the "test of reasonableness" to shift the burden of
proof from petitioner to defendant:
What is the strict-scrutiny test?