An agreement between people and their leaders in which people agree to give up some liberties so that their other liberties are protected.
What is a social contract?
100
Constitutionally established guarantees that protect citizens, opinions, and property against arbitrary government interference.
What are civil liberties?
100
Among white voters, a large proportion of highly religious people associate themselves with this party.
What is Republican?
100
In this election voters choose the party's candidates who will run in the later general election.
What is a primary election?
100
Central High School
What is the name of the high school that the governor of Arkansas ordered the National Guard to allow only white kids to enter after integration was required?
200
A government structure in which independent sovereign governments cooperate on specified governmental matters, but retain sovereignty over all other governmental matters within their jurisdictions?
What is a confederal system?
200
Picketing, flag burning or wearing an armband.
What are examples of symbolic speech?
200
This event might have had a strong generational effect on people on your grandparents' generation.
What is the Great Depression?
200
The government situation is called this if Republicans have control of both houses of Congress and the President is a Democrat.
What is divided government?
200
a bowl of chili
What did Minnie Jean dump on a white student's head in the cafeteria?
300
The 18th century colonists' desire for a government that is created by the people and depends on the people for the authority to rule it.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
White primaries, literacy tests, poll taxes and grandfather clauses
What are examples of Jim Crow laws?
300
"If you knew that Congresswoman Macedo lives outside the district, how would that affect your vote?" is an example of a question you might get in this type of poll.
What is a push poll?
300
Pro-life stance on abortion, a larger role for state governments, the protection and support of business, and limited or reducing social welfare programs.
What are key Republican positions?
300
The state in which the governor closed the schools to avoid integration.
What is Virginia?
400
Liberty, equality, capitalism, consent of the governed, and individual, family and community.
What are the fundamental values of American democracy?
400
This 1954 Supreme Court decision ruled that segregated schools violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
400
An entity whose specific goal is to raise and spend money to influence the outcome of elections.
What is a political action committee, or PAC?
400
A direct democracy measure that places public policy drafted by government officials on the ballot for voters to approve or reject.
What is a referendum?
400
James Meredith
What is the name of the black student who tried to enroll at the University of Mississippi, better known as Ole Miss?
500
The author of Two Treatises on Civil Government in 1689, which argued against divine right monarchy and proposed the existence of inalienable individual rights.
Who is John Locke?
500
Strict scrutiny test, heightened scrutiny test and ordinary scrutiny test.
What are the tests the courts apply to determine whether unequal treatment is legal?
500
People might join the interest group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) because they strongly object to animal abuse and want to work with others to prevent animal cruelty. This is an example of this kind of incentive.
What is purposive incentive?
500
The Supreme Court ruling on this case lead to the growth of the Super PACs.
What is Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission?
500
The president that sent in the U.S. Army to protect the black students who were trying to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.