Bill of Rights
Supply and Demand
Court Cases
Random Questions
Economics
100
What is the second amendment?

Right to bear arms

100

What is the curve that slopes upwards from left to right called?

Supply curve

100

Which court case establishes Judicial Review?

Marbury v Madison

100

What is the 19th amendment?

Women's suffrage

100

What do you get when your supply is greater than your demand?

Surplus

200

List all the rights of the first amendment?

Religion, Assembly, Petiton, Press, Speech (RAPPS)

200

What is the curve that slopes downwards from left to right?

Demand

200

Which court cases establishes "Separate but Equal"?

Plessy v Ferguson

200

Which plan in the Constitutional Convention was MOST similar to the Articles of Confederation?

New Jersey Plan

200

What is it called when companies move jobs to other countries (or states) where labor is cheaper in order to reduce production costs?


Outsourcing

300

What is the MAJOR difference between the 6th and 7th amendments?

Criminal 6th, Civil 7

300

What is the point called where supply and demand meet?

Equilibrium

300

Which court case establishes integration?

Brown vs Board of Education

300

Which court case established, "if a defendant cannot afford a lawyer, the state must provide one for them"?

Gideon v Wainwright

300

What is the fundamental problem of economics?

Scarcity

400

What is the 4th amendment?  What is the 8th amendment?

4th- search warrant

8th- No cruel and unusual punishment

400

When your supply curve shifts left, what does that mean?

Supply is decreasing

400

Established that the commerce clause in the Constitution also gave Congress the power to regulate navigation.  Also, enforced no monopolies. 

Gibbons v Ogden

400

What is the difference between Representative Democracy and Direct Democracy?

Representative- choose someone to vote on everything

Direct- vote on everything

400

In economics, there are ways to improve productivity?  Explain one.

Specialization, Division of Labor, Investment in human capital

500

What are the powers called that are given to the states in the 10th amendment?

Reserved

500
What does a shortage signal the demand curve is going to do?

Shift Right

500

Which NC court case established the fact that all NC students are entitled to a "sound and basic education"?

Leandro vs NC

500

Where did the origins of American democracy come from?  Name one thinker of this period, and what they helped establish?

Enlightenment....Locke, Montesquieu, Roseau (answers may vary)

500

Define economic interdependence.

We rely on others, and others rely on us to fulfill wants and needs.  Events in other countries, regions, and businesses can have a major effect on everyone.