Laws designed to restrict or limit the way both people and corporations operate
What is Government Regulation
100
A tax by which the government takes a greater share of the income of the rich than of the poor
What is Progressive tax
100
Our foreign policy during the cold war
What is Containment
100
A program added to the Social Security system in 1965 that provides hospitalization insurance for the elderly and permits older Americans to purchase inexpensive coverage for doctor fees and other medical expenses.
What is Medicare
200
Total debt owed by the federal government due to past borrowing
What is National Debt
200
Use of the federal budget to influence the economy
What is Fiscal Policy
200
A tax by which the government takes the same share of income from everyone
What is proportional tax
200
The largest federal regulatory agency, in charge of administering policies dealing with land use, air and water quality, and wilderness and wildlife preservation
What is EPA
200
A public assistance program designed to provide health care for poor Americans and is funded by both the states and the national government
What is Medicaid
300
Elimination of federal regulations on private companies
What is Deregulation
300
Government manipulation of the supply of money in private hands
What is Monetary Policy
300
A tax in which the burden falls relatively more heavily on low income groups than wealthy taxpayers
What is regressive tax
300
A law passed with the purpose of combating air pollution, which charges the EPA with protecting and improving the quality of the nation's air.
What is Clean Air Act of 1970
300
A compulsory insurance program for all Americans that would have the government finance citizens' medical care.
What is National Health Insurance
400
Strengthens the federal government’s power to conduct surveillance, perform searches,
and detain individuals in order to combat terrorism.
What is USA Patriot Act
400
Economic policy of shielding an economy from imports
What is Protectionism
400
Policies that provide benefits, cash, or in-kind, to individuals, based on either entitlements or means testing.
What is social welfare policies
400
The foreign policy ideal the United States has followed for most of its history
What is isolationism
400
Government programs providing benefits only to individuals who qualify based on specific needs
What is Means-Tested Program
500
Requires states to allow people to register to vote when applying for driver’s licenses
applications or completing license renewal forms.
What is National Voter Registration Bill (“Motor Voter Act”)
500
Policy designed to ensure compition and prevent a monopoly
What is Antitrust Policy
500
The account into which Social Security employee and employer contributions are deposited and used to pay out eligible recipients
What is Social Security Trust Fund
500
A special tax added to imported goods to raise their price
What is Tariff
500
Government programs providing benefits to qualified individuals regardless of need