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Assignment:

Answer the following questions:

American Government

1. What did the bad tendency test do?
2. In recent elections, women have increased/decreased the number of seats in Congress?
3. What test gives Congress the power to restrict free expression in critical situations?
4. Know the Mayflower Compact
5. Why are Native Americans still fragmented politically?
6. What in the US Constitution ensures that each state honors the laws of other states?
7. Know what school vouchers are used for.
8. What was the Civil War a dispute about?
9. What's considered a natural consequence of democracy?
10. Know that the 'Grand old Party' lost support in the 1930s.
11. What did the first Continental Congress demand?
12. Know the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007.
13. What was the purpose of a poll tax?
14. Which minority populace is the highest skilled immigrant group?
15. Know the concept of devolution.
16. What is preserving national parks an example of?
17. Handing the states the right to conduct elections is an example of______federalism?
18. What type of party would the Bull Moose party be?
19. What did Federalists agree to do in order to ratify the Constitution?
20. What issue did both Whigs and Democrats seek to avoid?
21. What type of government is a Dictatorship?
22. Were political parties welcomed by the founding fathers?
23. Know what a private good is.
24. Know what party activists do.
25. What does elite theory posit?
26. Know entrepreneurial theory.
27. The idea of free markets come comes from which political theory of economics?
28. Know the 4 elements of a political party's national organization.
29. Know that politicians are more impressed by contacts from voters [for an indirect technique].
30. Why did the founders choose a representative democracy rather than a direct democracy?
31. The acts of Congress were proposed by what plan?
32. Using non-threatening body language is an example of what in the 1960s?
33. Is a social media site like Facebook bound by the First Amendment?
34. Know federal mandate.
35. Know what a political party does.
36. What does the national chairperson do?
37. What party did Jefferson's Republicans become?
38. Know public services.
39. Was the scope of the Bill of Rights limited to the National Government for many years?
40. What checks and balances were produced by Marbury v. Madison? Also, what clauses were involved in this case?
41. Know Solidary incentive.
42. Know picket fence federalism.
43. A vote by 3/4ths of the state legislature in favor of an amendment is an example of what 'traditional' amendment ratification?
44. Which state, resulting in the 'Miranda warnings', come from?
45. Funds to improve a state's infrastructure is known as what type of grant?
46. What powers apply only within the geographical area of the state?
47. What is the implication when, regarding county and city governments, they are considered 'creatures of state government'?
48. Know De jure segregation.
49. Which part of the Bill of Rights was broadened to ensure the civil liberties of states and localities?
50. The Green Party broadened its scope beyond a single area of concern keeping it from fading away.
51. Know the difference between absolute monarchies and constitutional monarchies.
52. Know that tax breaks are easier to obtain for special interest groups.
53. What system best describes individual American states?
54. Know what a single-member district is.
55. Know an institution is a continuous group that performs certain functions in society.
56. Know that political parties are fragmented and decentralized.
57. Know the revolving door syndrome.
58. Does the First Amendment protect parents from seeking lifesaving treatments for a child?
59. The Chamber of Commerce involves business.
60. Article III of the Constitution established what branch of government?
61. Know the tenets of capitalism.
62. Know Intelligent Design.
63. What is the Republican party also known as?
64. Can public schools sponsor religious activities?
65. Crime statistics have increased amongst what group in 2014?
66. What did the colonists become familiar with by their participation in colonial governments?
67. In Lawrence v. Texas, sodomy laws violated what clause?
68. The separation of powers comes from the Madisonian Model.
69. Why was the USA Freedom Act created?
70. Increased support of states' rights resurrects what Amendment?
71. What is prior restraint?
72. How many representatives could each state send to Congress according to the Articles of the Confederation?
73. Is federalism based on the historical application of the broad principles outlined in the Constitution?
74. Dictatorships are or are not supported by tradition?
75. What addition to the Constitution provides for civil liberties?
76. Is a representative democracy a republic?
77. What is the largest Agricultural interest group?
78. Did slavery provoke the Civil War?
79. Regulating commerce among the states is an expressed power.
80. Is a high degree of participation required in a direct democracy?
81. Can the Supreme Court impose any restrictions under the First Amendment to maintain order?
82. Know the free exercise clause.
83. Is the right to petition the government as fundamental as other First Amendment rights [according to the text]?
84. What did Gideon v. Wainright contend?