RAH Exam 4

Question 1

an 1870 constitutional amendment that forbade the states and government from denying suffrage to any male citizen on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Answer 1

15th amendment

Question 2

allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.

Answer 2

17th amendment

Question 3

granted women the right to vote

Answer 3

19th amendment

Question 4

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice

Answer 4

22nd amendment

Question 5

extends the right to vote in the presidential election to citizens residing in the District of Columbia

Answer 5

23rd amendment

Question 6

outlawed the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections

Answer 6

24th amendment

Question 7

former U.S. Senator from Illinois and first Black American elected as president, who set a progressive agenda during his eight years in office

Answer 7

Barack Obama

Question 8

former governor of Arkansas and forty-second president during a period of economic prosperity in the 1990s; impeached but acquitted on charges of obstructing justice and lying about an extramarital affair

Answer 8

Bill Clinton

Question 9

ran on the record of fiscal conservatism, strong support for women’s suffrage, and held a vague opposition to Prohibition. During his presidency, he restored public confidence in the White House after the many scandals of the Harding administration.

Answer 9

Calvin Coolidge

Question 10

a system in which the different parts of an organization (such as a government) have powers that affect and control the other parts so that no part can become too powerful.

Answer 10

checks and balances

Question 11

Christian political factions characterized by their strong support of socially conservative and traditionalist policies.

Answer 11

Christian Right

Question 12

an appointed official who directs the administration of a city

Answer 12

city manager

Question 13

an American political philosophy that stresses using conservative techniques and concepts in order to improve the general welfare of society

Answer 13

compassionate conservatism

Question 14

a legislative agenda advocated for by the Republican Party during the 1994 congressional election campaign

Answer 14

contract with America

Question 15

a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S.

Answer 15

court packing

Question 16

who won the 1896 election?

Answer 16

William McKinley

Question 17

who won the 1912 election?

Answer 17

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 18

who won the 1932 election?

Answer 18

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 19

who won the 1968 election?

Answer 19

Richard Nixon

Question 20

who won the 2000 election?

Answer 20

George W. Bush

Question 21

who won the 2008 election?

Answer 21

Barak Obama

Question 22

a political leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument

Answer 22

demagogues

Question 23

Founded in 1828, it was predominantly built by Martin Van Buren, who assembled a wide cadre of politicians in every state behind war hero Andrew Jackson, making it the world’s oldest active political party

Answer 23

Democratic Party

Question 24

an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961

Answer 24

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 25

a body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president

Answer 25

Electoral College

Question 26

carries out and enforces laws

Answer 26

executive branch

Question 27

an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished ca. 1875

Answer 27

farmers alliance

Question 28

was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945

Answer 28

FDR

Question 29

an American politician, diplomat, and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993.

Answer 29

George Bush 41

Question 30

an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

Answer 30

George Bush 43

Question 31

a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65

Answer 31

Great Society

Question 32

refers to occasions when the House of Representatives and the Senate are controlled by different parties, or by a different party than the party of the president

Answer 32

gridlock

Question 33

the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin Roosevelt and as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to January 1945

Answer 33

Harry Truman

Question 34

an American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 and a member of the Republican Party, holding office during the onset of the Great Depression in the United States

Answer 34

Herbert Hoover

Question 35

an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935

Answer 35

Huey Long

Question 36

a charge of misconduct made against the holder of a public office

Answer 36

impeachment

Question 37

an American former politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981

Answer 37

Jimmy Carter

Question 38

an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination near the end of his third year in office

Answer 38

JFK

Question 39

a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct. It may be understood as a unique process involving both political and legal elements

Answer 39

impeachment process

Question 40

in a direct initiative, a measure is put directly to a referendum. The vote may be on a proposed federal level, statute, constitutional amendment, charter amendment or local ordinance, or obligate the executive or legislature to consider the subject by submitting it to the order of the day.

Answer 40

initiative

Question 41

an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969

Answer 41

Lyndon Johnson

Question 42

a centrist ideological faction within the Democratic Party in the United States

Answer 42

New Democrats

Question 43

various right-wing political groups or policies in different countries during different period

Answer 43

new right

Question 44

the party program adopted at the formative convention of the Populist Party

Answer 44

Omaha Platform

Question 45

organizations linked to a political party that often controlled local government

Answer 45

political machines

Question 46

a left-wing agrarian populist political party in the United States in the late 19th century

Answer 46

populist party

Question 47

The power of the President to refuse to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevent its enactment into law

Answer 47

presidential veto

Question 48

the combination of voters that Republican Ronald Reagan assembled to produce a major political realignment with his electoral landslide in the 1980 United States presidential election

Answer 48

Reagan Coalition