Midterm 1

Question 1

This is a system of government in which power and authority is
divided between two levels - national and state.

Answer 1

Federalism

Question 2

The features of this founding philosophy include a focus on
individuals, and the importance of property rights.

Answer 2

Liberalism

Question 3

The idea that the American system is fundamentally special and
unique in its construction and place in the world.

Answer 3

American Exceptionalism

Question 4

This idea led the founders to create a more representative form of
democracy to protect against corruption from both outside and within.

Answer 4

Republicanism

Question 5

This term refers to a practice in which the national government
compels states to adopt certain policies by enticing them with new funding
and threatening to withdraw existing funding if the state refuses to comply.

Answer 5

Fiscal Federalism

Question 6

This describes the power of a president to reject a piece of legislation
passed by the Congress.

Answer 6

Presidential Veto

Question 7

The power held by the House of Representatives to charge federal
officials with treason or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

Answer 7

Impeachment

Question 8

The powers of the government being split among different branches
and different levels to avoid the centralization of power.

Answer 8

Fragmentation

Question 9

This power, established by Marbury v. Madison, allows the courts to
determine the constitutionality of passed legislation.

Answer 9

Judicial Review

Question 10

A maneuver in the Senate to block a motion from going forward to a
vote.

Answer 10

Filibuster

Question 11

There are 10-15 of these in every presidential election, where the
ultimate allocation of electoral college votes is NOT typically a foregone
conclusion.

Answer 11

Battleground States

Question 12

This winner-take-all structure of congressional representation is the
primary reason we have a two party system.

Answer 12

Single Member District

Question 13

The partisan drawing of electoral districts, in which specific groups
of people are strategically separated or combined, to benefit one party over
the other.

Answer 13

Gerrymandering

Question 14

Every state holds these to choose candidates to be a party’s nominee
for public office.

Answer 14

Primaries or caucuses

Question 15

A system seen outside the USA in which elected legislators, not
voters, choose their party leaders.

Answer 15

Parliamentary System

Question 16

The percentage of eligible voters who actually vote in a given
election.

Answer 16

Turnout

Question 17

Arguably the most important predictor of how someone will vote.

Answer 17

Party Identification

Question 18

The “space” between policy preferences in a given policy area.

Answer 18

Ideological/partisan polarization

Question 19

The tendency of people identifying with one party to dislike and
distrust members of the other party solely because of their partisan
identification rather than their individual preferences.

Answer 19

Affective Polarization

Question 20

This is when an entity runs an ad either against or in favor of a
specific candidate while maintaining NO connection to or affiliation with
that candidate’s campaign.

Answer 20

Independent Expenditure

Question 21

This founder wrote 29 of the 87 Federalist papers.

Answer 21

James Madison

Question 22

This president is most associated with the early expansion of suffrage
and the solidification of party organizations.

Answer 22

Andrew Jackson

Question 23

The New Deal Coalition was the combination of groups that
supported the Democratic party after the 1932 election of this president.

Answer 23

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 24

This president was the first to suggest lowering the voting age from
21 to 18.

Answer 24

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 25

This former presidential candidate, governor, and DNC chair was an
early user of the internet in his presidential campaign.

Answer 25

Howard Dean

Question 26

These documents were meant to explain the purpose and meaning of
the Constitution to the skeptical American public.

Answer 26

Federalist Papers

Question 27

The founders created this elite electoral institution to prevent the
voting masses, whom they did not fully trust, from exercising too much
influence in elections.

Answer 27

Electoral College

Question 28

The author of Federalist #10 acknowledged the inevitability of these,
which are just groups of people with common interests at the expense of
others.

Answer 28

Factions

Question 29

The concept of giving oneself to the greater good.

Answer 29

Civic Virtue

Question 30

Fearing the trampling of minority rights, the founders proposed a
representative form of democracy to prevent this.

Answer 30

Tyranny of the Majority

Question 31

The Declaration of Sentiments was issued at the women’s rights
convention in this nearby place.

Answer 31

Seneca Falls