Outlawed discriminatory practices responsible for disenfranchising African American voters.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
100
Enforced the 14th amendment, ended Jim Crow laws, and created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
100
Chief Executive can veto particular provisions of a bill, but not its entirety.
What is line-item (partial) veto?
100
merit over connections; opposite of the spoils system
What is the Civil Service Reform (Pendleton) Act of 1883?
100
government spending for localized projects secured solely to bring money to a representative's district.
What is Pork Barreling?
200
Replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program with block grants to the states (introduced devolution)
What is the Welfare Reform Act?
200
Requires states to set standards and measurable goals to improve individual outcomes in education.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
200
House of Congress that can impeach federal judges and the president.
What is the House of Representatives?
200
NASA is an example of this.
What is an independent executive agency?
200
Vote to determine whether citizens support action by their state legislature.
What is Referendum?
300
Created the Federal Election Commission and tried to make the role of money in politics more transparent.
What is the Federal Election Campaign Act?
300
Requires employers and public facilities to make "reasonable accommodations" for people with disabilities.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
300
House of Congress that holds impeachment trials.
What is the Senate?
300
alliance among an administrative agency, an interest group, and a congressional committee (subgovernments)
What is iron triangles?
300
tactic of mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
What is Logrolling?
400
The requirement that the president must notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying troops, and bring them home within 60-90 days unless Congress extends the time.
What is the War Powers Resolution?
400
Established national air quality standards.
What is the Clean Air Act?
400
The president can nominate _____, but Senate can approve or reject them.
What are justice nominees?
400
The Federal Reserve Board is an example of this.
What is an independent regulatory agency?
400
a legislative act that provides for the punishment of a person without a court trial.
What is Bill of Attainder?
500
Expands the definition of terrorism to include domestic terrorism and increases the ability of law enforcement agencies to search homes, businesses, and phone and email records.
What is the USA Patriot Act?
500
created the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to evaluate the president's budget
What is the Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974?
500
_____ can propose a constitutional amendment to reverse a Supreme Court ruling.
What is the Congress?
500
The translation of policy goals into rules and standard operating procedures; can be given to multiple groups, but results in fragmentation of responsibilities.
What is implementation?
500
Pattern of states holding primaries early to maximize media attention and political influence.