This was the precursor to the United States Constitution. Created a loose league of states with many shortcomings.
What is the Articles of Confederation
100
A tactic used in the Senate to halt action on a bill. Senators, once holding the floor, have unlimited time to speak unless a cloture vote is passed by three-fifths of the members.
What is a filibuster
100
This is the belief that there should be diverse and competing ideas in society, and that all American citizens have a right to lobby the government.
What is Pluralism
100
Acting in her/his constitutional role as _______, the President is the leader of the nation's military.
What is the Commander in Chief
100
Groups organized for the purpose of making appeals for particular policies.
What are interest groups
200
The process through which individuals and groups reach agreement on a course of common action even as they continue to disagree on the goals of the action
What is politics
200
Who is the current Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court?
Who is John Roberts
200
A federally registered fund-raising group that pools money from individuals to give to political candidates and parties.
What is Political Action Committee
200
This is the prime means of assuming how a citizen is going to vote in an upcoming election?
What is party affiliation/partisanship
200
This clause of the Constitution gave Congress the authority to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states.
What is the commerce clause
300
_______ and _______ have the strongest influence on a person's likelihood to vote.
What are age and education
300
This law describes the mechanisms that discourage third parties and maintain the American two party system.
What is Duverger's Law
300
This refers to the extensive manipulation of the shape of a legislative district to benefit a certain incumbent or party
What is gerrymandering
300
This Amendment added in 1913 guarantees that senators are elected by the people
What is the Seventeenth Amendment
300
Constitutional courts are vested with the general judicial authority outlined in this Article of the Constitution
What is Article III
400
He was the first president to widely expand the powers of the presidency under the "Take Care" clause of the Constitution.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt
400
This Act requires that the President inform Congress, within forty-eight hours of committing troops abroad in a military action, and the action must end within two years unless Congress approves an extension
What is the War Powers Act of 1973
400
A broad grant of money given by the federal government to a state government.
What is a block grant
400
______ is the chief attorney for the U.S. government and lets the Supreme Court know which cases the administration thinks are important.
What is the Solicitor General
400
This Amendment lowered the voting age of citizens to eighteen years
What is the Twenty-Sixth Amendment
500
John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton wrote under the pen name “Publius” in these political documents, which were an attempt to convince early Americans to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers
500
__________ is for candidates based on their positions on specific issues, as opposed to their party or personal characteristics while _________ is for a candidate or party on how successfully the candidate or party performed.
What is issue voting and performance voting
500
This political era followed president Monroe and lacked significant party conflict:
What was the era of good feelings
500
Interest group activity can be predicted to increase during:
What is a period of social or economic change
500
This idea, _______, is when the media places one story before the American public, as opposed to another, while this idea, ________, is how the story is presented to the public?