American Government Review Sheet Exam One Fall 2023
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American Government Review Sheet - Exam 1 Fall 2023 (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
(Below are several questions included in the exam multiple choice questions. Please carefully review class presentations and chapter readings)
Government is best defined as the
What are civil rights?
________ are aspects of personal freedom constitutionally protected from government interference.
Federalism is best defined as a system of government
How do civil liberties differ from civil rights?
A government that is not constrained by legal limits and also seeks to eliminate any challenges to its authority is known as a(n) ________ government.
A ________ is a system of government in which member states retain almost all of their
sovereign authority and delegate limited powers to a weak central body.
The United States’ first written constitution was called the
During the founding era, ________ were the strongest supporters of adding a bill of rights to the Constitution.
What is it called when a state grants a city the ability to govern its own local affairs?
Which term describes a form of government in which a small group, typically landowners, military officers, or wealthy merchants, controls most of the governing decisions?
An autocracy exists when
The Supreme Court’s decision in
Obergefell v. Hodges
(2015) was significant because it
How did the
Dred Scott v. Sanford
decision help to precipitate the Civil War?
What were Jim Crow laws?
The “wall of separation” between church and state is best found in which clause of the Constitution?
What does the supremacy clause assert?
What was the agreement reached at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that stipulated that for apportionment of congressional seats, only a portion of enslaved people would be counted?
American civil liberties and rights, such as freedom of speech, worship, and trial by jury are listed primarily in
Which court case introduced the separate but equal rule?
The belief that citizens can affect what government does is best referred to as
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The agreement reached at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that gave each state an equal number of senators regardless of its population but linked representation in the House of Representatives to population is known as the
What did the U.S. Supreme Court rule in
Brown v. Board of Education
(1954)?
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
The ________ clause in the U.S. Constitution affirms that national laws and treaties are “the supreme Law of the Land.”
Direct democracy is best defined as
Which of the following events was most influential in triggering the rise of a more active national government?
Which of the following statements regarding the citizenship status of Native Americans is true?
Which best completely describes the United States type of government?
The principle of ________ gives the federal government the power to override any state or local
law in one particular area of policy.
The three branches of government created by the Constitution are
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
Women’s rights advocates called the Statue of Liberty “the greatest hypocrisy of the nineteenth century” because
The essential documents of the American Founding are the ________ and the ________.
Block grants are designed to
Who was the first president to promote New Federalism?
Using block grants to return power to the states was part of ________ during the Nixon (1969–
1974) and Reagan (1981–1989) administrations.
Who was the leader of the United Farm Workers union in the 1960s?
During World War II, 120,000 individuals of Japanese descent, including 90,000 American citizens, were forcibly placed in internment camps. When did the federal government formally acknowledge that this denial of civil rights was a “grave injustice”?
The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution are also called
Mendez v. Westminster
(1947) was significant because
The Supreme Court’s decision in
Obergefell v. Hodges
(2015) was significant because it
The Antifederalists argued that the powers of the national government should be limited by
The power of the federal government began to expand after 1933 in response to
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A _________ is a centralized government system in which lower levels of government have little
power independent of the national government.
The term “eminent domain” describes the
The era of dual federalism was from the ________ until ________.
Recently the Texas legislature passed a bill to ensure a patriotic history of the state. What motivated this initiative? What best highlights the significance of the Bacon Rebellion?
What was the result of this Texas city that banned fracking?
An example of U.S. Federalism is states/cities with different individual policies in regard to marijuana. In the state of Texas what most recent political action occurred regarding marijuana.
The principle of ________ gives the federal government the power to override any state or local
law in one particular area of policy.
The full faith and credit clause of the Constitution requires the
The processes by which local, state, and federal governments negotiate and compromise over policy responsibilities is called
Bicameralism is a constitutional principle that represents the division of
The idea of the “living Constitution” means that
In the Declaration of Independence, which rights were declared inalienable?
Generally speaking, in order to be a good citizen in the United States, it is most critical to have
A woman is trying to buy birth control at a pharmacy, but the pharmacist refuses to sell her birth control on religious grounds. Which right is the pharmacist infringing upon?
A republic (also known as a representative democracy) is a system of government that
In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), the Supreme Court
Legally enforced segregation in public schools is a form of ________ discrimination.
The U.S. Immigration Act of 1924 limited immigrants from which region
Operation Lone Star goals are to _______
What did the Equal Pay Act of 1963 do?
What is the significance of the Bostock v Clayton County (2020) court case?
What does prison gerrymandering entails?
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