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100
The excise tax is also known as this.
What is the luxury tax?
100
The amount of money the federal government has borrowed over the years and not yet repaid.
What is the public debt?
100
These allow a person to enter another country (for educational or work purposes).
What are visas?
100
An indirect rejection of a bill by the President not acting on it is known as this.
What is a pocket veto?
100
The Defense Department’s headquarters are located in this building.
What is the Pentagon?
200
This tax is placed on imports (decided by Congress). Also called tariffs.
What are customs duties? +2
200
The various means a government uses to raise and spend money.
What is fiscal policy? +2
200
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s policy to win friends to the south by reducing the United States' political and military interventions in the region.
What is the Good Neighbor Policy? +2
200
The formal election of the President and Vice President occurs on this day.
What is the first Tuesday in November?
200
This department works to protect the country against terrorism and make sure the borders are safe.
What is Homeland Security?
300
This tax is placed on all of the assets (everything the person owns or values) of a person who dies.
What is the estate tax?
300
This means that ambassadors are not bound to the laws of the country they are serving; cannot be arrested, sued, or taxed by that country,
What is diplomatic immunity? +2
300
Holding in communism in countries where it already existed is called this.
What is containment?
300
When the President refuses to disclose (release) information, he is exercising this power.
What is executive privilege? +2
300
The gathering of information about other countries to help defend the nation is called this.
What is intelligence?
400
This must be filed in order to see how much a person earned in the last year.
What is a tax return?
400
Supporters of this theory would most likely believe that tax cuts stimulate the economy.
What is Reaganomics? +2
400
The U.S. initially practiced this policy, which meant the refusal to be involved in other countries.
What is isolationism?
400
A directive, rule, or regulation issued by the President that has the effect of law is called this.
What is an executive order? +2
400
This war ended in a stalemate (a cease-fire) with no peace treaty. Soldiers on both sides continue to guard the border.
What is the Korean War?
500
This tax is placed on goods that are not necessities.
What is the excise tax?
500
A bureaucracy is organized in this shape.
What is a pyramid?
500
The hostage crisis in 1979 occurred in this country when students stormed the American embassy.
What is Iran?
500
Over the last four presidential election cycles, these states were considered swing states.
What are Ohio and Florida?
500
The strategy of building a very strong military in order to prevent another country from attacking the U.S. is called this.
What is deterrence? +2