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Constitution
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Political Parties
100
Term used to describe powers shared by the national and state governments.
What are concurrent powers?
100

Type of federal grant for broad purposes.

What is a block grant?

100

This group of amendments to the Constitution expanded the document to consider civil rights ,not only civil liberties.

What are the Civil War/Reconstruction Amendments? 

100
A belief that you play a role in politics and the government is responsive to the participants.
What is political efficacy?
100

The two major parties and two national third parties most commonly recognized. 

What are the Republican, Democratic, Green, and Libertarian Parties. 

200
This large-state contribution to the Constitutional Convention called for a strong national government.
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
This concept of federalism views the national and state governments as collaborating to solve common problems.
What is cooperative federalism?
200
This rule says that illegally gathered evidence may not be introduced in a criminal trial.
What is the exclusionary rule?
200

A good margin of error. 

What is below 4%?

200
Which current political party is the largest? (according to individual responses)
What is the Democratic Party?
300
This uprising of Revolutionary War veterans brought attention to several weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays's Rebellion?
300
Type of federal grant for a specific purpose.
What is a categorical grant?
300
These two clauses in the First Amendment make up what is generally understood as Americans' "freedom of religion."
What are free exercise and establishment clauses?
300
The process by which a person forms his or her political views.
What is political socialization?
300

A period when a significant shift occurs in the coalitions of national political parties.

What is a realignment?

400

These are the subjects of the first three articles of the Constitution.

What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?

400
Landmark case that held a national ban on guns in a school zone had violated the commerce clause.
What is U.S. v. Lopez (1995)?
400

The decision in this case led to the eventual desegregation of public schools.

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

400

Primary election in which voters can only vote with their registered party. 

What is a closed primary?

400

This party challenged the expansion of slavery in the 1850s and 1860s 

What was the Republican Party?

500

This political philosopher argued for "life, liberty, and property" as natural rights. 

Who is John Locke?

500

Taxing is a form of this type of power.

What is a concurrent power?

500
This landmark case's majority opinion created the "clear and present danger test" to analyze future free speech cases.
What is Schenck v. United States (1919)?
500

This law - requiring states to allow citizens to register to vote at the DMV - increased voter registration dramatically.

What is the motor-voter law? (National Voter Registration Act of 1993)

500

This party took the presidency amid political realignment at the end of the 1960s.

What is the Republican Party?