AP Government Jeopardy Hagar

Constitution

100

Term used to describe powers shared by the national and state governments.

What are concurrent powers?

200

This large-state contribution to the Constitutional Convention called for a strong national government.

What is the Virginia Plan?

300

This uprising of Revolutionary War veterans brought attention to several weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.

What is Shays's Rebellion?

400

This term is used for powers specifically listed in the Constitution.

What are enumerated powers?

500

According to Article 1, all bills raising taxes must originate in the 

Who is House of Representatives?

Federalism

100

Also known as "layer cake" federalism

What is a Dual federalism?

200

This concept of federalism views the national and state governments as collaborating to solve common problems known as "marble cake"

What is cooperative federalism?

300

Terms set by the national government that states must meet whether or not they accept federal grants.

What is a mandate?

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)?

500

Landmark case that held all interstate commerce will be regulated by the national government.

What is Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

100

Regents of the U. of California v. Bakke (1978), Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) and Gratz v. Bollinger (2003) all dealt with this issue.

What is affirmative action?

200

This rule says that illegally gathered evidence may not be introduced in a criminal trial.

What is the exclusionary rule?

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?

400

This landmark SCOTUS case said the First Amendment applies to the states, thereby beginning the process of selective incorporation.

What is Gitlow v. New York (1925)?

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)?

Types Of Democracy

100

Allows citizens to directly govern and make laws. Chaotic in large populations.

What is direct democracy?

200

Values broad based on public participation in governing.

What is a participatory democracy? 

300

More efficient system that allows citizens to elect representatives who then govern for them. 

What is representative democracy? 

400

Favors allowing the best educated and most qualified members of society to govern in the best interests of the country. 

What is elite democracy?

500

Promotes majority rule placing power in the hands of the majority.

What is Majoritarian democracy?

Founding Documents

100

Natural rights, popular sovereignty, and social contract theory are all concepts within this document.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

200

This document was the United States' first constitution.

What is the Articles of Confederation?

300

The Great Compromise also known as this, created a bicameral two-house legislature.

What is the Connecticut Compromise?

400

This founding document described how a republican form of government combined with separation of powers can control government and the officials operating the government. 

What is Federalist #10?

500

This Anti-Federalist published a series of articles warning that the new national government would be far too powerful. 

What is Brutus?