AP Gov CH.3 Jeron Tainatongo

Question 1

confederation

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gov in which the national gov derives its power from the states.

Question 2

Iroquois Confederation

Answer 2

political alliance of American Indian tribes that featured aspects of the federal system of gov adapted by the Framers.

Question 3

monarchy

Answer 3

gov in which power is vested in hereditary kings and queens who govern the society.

Question 4

totalitarianism

Answer 4

gov in which power resides in leaders who rule by force in their own self-interest and without regard to rights and liberties.

Question 5

oligarchy

Answer 5

gov in which rights to participate depends on the possession of wealth,social status, military position, or achievement.

Question 6

democracy

Answer 6

system of gov that gives power to the people.

Question 7

federal system

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system of gov in which the national and state gov s share power and derive all authority from the people.

Question 8

unitary system

Answer 8

system of gov in which the local and regional govs derive all authority from a strong national gov.

Question 9

enumerated powers

Answer 9

powers of the national gov specially granted to Congress in Article I, sec 8 of the Constitution.

Question 10

implied powers

Answer 10

powers of the national gov derived from the enumerated powers and the necessary and proper clause.

Question 11

Tenth Amendment

Answer 11

final part of the Bill of Rights that defines the basic principles of American Federalism.

Question 12

reserved powers

Answer 12

powers reserved to the states by the Tenth Amendment that lie at the foundation of a state’s right to legislate for the public health and welfare of its citizens.

Question 13

concurrent powers

Answer 13

powers shared by the national and state govs

Question 14

bill of attainder

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law declaring an act illegal without a judicial trial

Question 15

ex post facto law

Answer 15

law that makes an act punishable as a crime

Question 16

full faith and credit clause

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ensures judicial decrees and contracts made in one state will be binding and enforceable in any state.

Question 17

privileges and immunities

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guaranteeing that the citizens of each state are afforded the same rights as citizens of all other states .

Question 18

extradition clause

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requires states to extradite criminals to states to extradite criminals to states they’ve been convicted

Question 19

interstate compacts

Answer 19

contract between states that carry the force of law.

Question 20

Dillon’s Rule

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premise which states that local govs don’t have any inherent sovereignty and instead must be authorized by state govs that can create/abolish them.

Question 21

charter

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document that specifies the basic policies, procedures, and institutions of local gov.

Question 22

counties

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basic administrative units of local gov.

Question 23

municipalities

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city govs created in response to the emergence of relatively densely populated function.

Question 24

special district

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local gov that’s restricted t a particular function.

Question 25

John Marshall

Answer 25

longest serving Supreme Court Chief Justice who’s choose in Marbury v. Madison established the principle of judicial review in the U.S.

Question 26

McCulloch v. Maryland

Answer 26

Supreme Court upheld the power of the national gov and denied the right of state to tax the federal bank.

Question 27

Gibbons v. Ogden

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Supreme Court upheld broad congressional power to regulate interstate commerce.

Question 28

Barron v. Baltimore

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Supreme Court ruling that limited the applicability of the Bill of Rights to the federal gov and not the states.

Question 29

Roger B. Taney

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Supreme Court Chief Justice who supported slavery and states’ rights in the pre-Civil War era.

Question 30

dual federalism

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belief that having separate and equally powerful levels of gov is the best arrangement.

Question 31

nullification

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belief in the right of a state to declare void a federal law.

Question 32

John C. Calhoun

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politician and political theorist who supported slavery and states’ right in the pre-Civil War era and served as vice president from 1825 to 1832.

Question 33

Dred Scott v Sandford

Answer 33

Supreme Court decision that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and denied citizenship right to enslaved African Americans.

Question 34

Civil War

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conflict between 1861 -1865 between Northern forces of the Union and Southern forces of the Confederacy.

Question 35

Abraham Lincoln

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16th president of the U.S. and the first elected Republican president who served from 1861-1865.

Question 36

secession

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unilateral assertion of independence by a geographic region within the country.

Question 37

Confederate State of America

Answer 37

political system created by the 11 states that seceded from the Union during Civil War.

Question 38

Reconstruction

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period from 1865-1877 in which the U.S. military occupied and dominated the former states of Confederacy.

Question 39

Andrew Johnson

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17th president of the U.S. who served as a Republican president from 1865-1869.

Question 40

Sixteenth Amendment

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authorized Congress to enact a national income tax.

Question 41

Seventeenth Amendment

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made senators directly elected by the people, removing their selection by state legislatures.

Question 42

Calvin Coolidge

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republican 13th president that served from 1923-1929.

Question 43

Herbert Hoover

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31st president who served from 1929-1933 during the Great Depression.

Question 44

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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32nd president who served from 1933-1945 and his leadership took the U.S. through the Great Depression and WWII

Question 45

New Deal

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started by Roosevelt in 1933 to bring the U.S. out of the Great Depression.

Question 46

cooperative federalism

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relationship between national,state, and local govs that began with the New Deal.

Question 47

progressive federalism

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approach to federalism that views relations between national & state gov as both coercive and cooperative.

Question 48

Barack Obama

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first African American president of the U.S. who served as the 44th president from 09-12.

Question 49

categorical grant

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appropriate federal funds to states for a specific purpose.

Question 50

Lyndon B. Johnson

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36th president of the U.S. who served fro 1964-1969 and he led the nation during the Civil Rights era and the Vietnam War.

Question 51

Great Society

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program begun in 1964 that was a broad attempt to combat poverty and discrimination through urban renewal.

Question 52

Ronald Reagan

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40th president of the U.S. who served from 1981 -1989 and led the nation through the end of the Cold War and led to a national shift toward political conservatism.

Question 53

New Federalism

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relationship proposed by the Reagan administration during the 1980’s.

Question 54

block grant

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grant given by the federal gov with only general spending guidelines.

Question 55

programmatic requests

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funds designated for special projects within a state or congressional district.