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Crash Course: Federalism Worksheet
Answer each of the questions below on this page or your own.
1.
What is Federalism?
It's the idea that in the US, governmental power is divided between the
government of the United States and the government of the individual states.
2.
List two basic things the federal government, not the states, are responsible for?
Two basic things that the
federal government are responsible for are wars with other countries and delivering the mail
3.
Name an example of a governmental responsibility that belongs to both the federal and state
governments. What are these powers called?
One responsibility that is shared between the state and the
government are taxes
4.
Define dual federalism.
Dual federalism is when the government's power was strictly divided between
the state and national governments
5.
What type of federalism has been practiced in the United States since the 1930’s?
Dual Federalism
6.
Under the practice of dual federalism, which level of government had the most authority, including the
use of police powers; the right to make laws about health, safety, and morality?
The state government
had the most authority
7.
What dessert metaphor is used to illustrate Dual Federalism?
Layer cake could be used to describe dual
federalism
8.
Under the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, federalism changed. What did the national government begin
to encourage states and cities to do?
During this time it was encouraged to pursue nationally defined
goals
9.
What is the main form of encouragement used to convince the states to cooperate with the federal
government?
The way they make them cooperate is through money or what is called grant-in-aid
10. Explain how this encouragement can take the form of a carrot or a stick?
Grants-in-aid can work like a
carrot encouraging a state to adopt a certain policy or work like a stick when the federal government
withholds funds if a state doesn't do what the national government wants
11. Explain how the AFDC program (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) is best understood as a federal
grant, not a project grant.
Under a formula grant, a state gets aid in a certain amount of money based on
a mathematical formula. In the case of the AFDC States got a certain amount of money for every person
who was classified as "poor." The more poor people a state had, the more money it got.
12. What does a state have to do to get a project grant?
States have to submit a proposal in order to receive
aid
13. Rank the three kinds of grants in order from MOST common to LEAST common.
Block Grants, Project
Grants, and Formula Grants
14. Under which kind of grant are states most able to decide for themselves how to spend the money
provided by the grant?
Block Grants are what the state can use for themselves
15. Environmental rules, civil rights rules, and rules set up under the Americans with Disabilities Act are all a
part of which type of federalism?
Regulated Federalism
16. What is the problem with an “unfunded mandate?”
Most of the time the government gives money to the
states to comply, but if they don’t they still have to comply with the mandates and those are called
unfunded mandates. This means no money, no fun. An example of this is the OSHA regulations that
employers have to follow
17. What is the “bedrock principle” of many conservatives and libertarians?
Small Government
18. New Federalism, popularized by Presidents Nixon and Reagan, is intended to return power to which level
of government?
States Government
19. Which amendment states that powers belong to the states and people as long as they have not been
delegated to the federal government or forbidden to the states?
10th Amendment
20. List and define the four forms of federalism.
Federalism-System where governmental power is divided among the national and state government
Dual Federalism- the idea that having separate and equally powerful state and national governments is
the best constitutional arrangement
Regulated Federalism- a form of federalism in which Congress imposes legislation on states and
localities, requiring them to meet national standards
New Federalism-a political philosophy of devolution, or the transfer of certain powers from the United
States federal government back to the states
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