Review

Question 1

Politics

Answer 1

Who gets what, when they get it, and how they get it.

Question 2

Socialism

Answer 2

Government on certain companies

Question 3

Communism

Answer 3

Government owns everything

Question 4

Requirements for house of representatives

Answer 4

Must be 25 years old

Two year term

Based on population

Question 5

Requirements for senate

Answer 5

Must be 30 years old

Six year term

Question 6

How old is the president have to be

Answer 6

35 years old

Question 7

What can Congress do

Answer 7

I can kick a judge out of office

Question 8

The first 10 amendments of the Constitution are

Answer 8

The bill of rights

Question 9

What does a good pollster look at

Answer 9

Political party, age, and gender

Question 10

How do you control for income

Answer 10

Raise taxes or cut spending

Question 11

If you change one word on a poll?

Answer 11

It could completely change the outcome

Question 12

What is political socialization

Answer 12

What you were raised to believe, religion based, or your family values.

Question 13

What is suffrage

Answer 13

The right to vote

Question 14

What is the system of government where the commandments of the religion are also the laws of the country?

Answer 14

Theocracy

Question 15

What happens at a midterm election

Answer 15

435 members are up for reelection

Whatever party is in the White House the opposite party will most likely win the midterm election

Question 16

Affirmative action

Answer 16

Is a liberal idea it does not treat all races equally

Question 17

Subsidize

Answer 17

If you were trying to influence the government and you want more of something

Question 18

Taxes

Answer 18

If you are the government and you want less of something

Question 19

A sign of total political failure in a country

Answer 19

Mass emmigration

Leaving the country

Question 20

What do democrats offer

Answer 20

More government services

Question 21

What do Republicans vote for

Answer 21

Tax cutting in Government

Question 22

What is it called when the state owns all means of production

Answer 22

Communism

Question 23

Insurance Dash what is the basic principle?

Answer 23

Pooling Risk

Question 24

Does a liberal support income redistribution?

Answer 24

Yes

Question 25

Does a liberal support affirmative action

Answer 25

Yes

Question 26

Conservatives

Answer 26

Don’t want to raise taxes on the rich

Question 27

Who generally votes for Democrats?

Answer 27

Poor, African Americans, government workers, single women.

Question 28

If a bill is passed by Congress what can the president do?

Answer 28

Veto the bill

Question 29

If you are a libertarian?

Answer 29

You are hands off on economy and social issues

Question 30

To libertarians support immigration

Answer 30

They are also hands off on immigration

Question 31

How does congress elect its members?

Answer 31

Single member district

Question 32

Proposition 13

Answer 32

Property taxes government is limited on raising property taxes

Question 33

How do you get propositions on the ballot

Answer 33

Past 2/3 Senate or 2/3 petition for signatures

Question 34

If you want to raise taxes in California?

Answer 34

2/3 senate and 2/3 assembly vote

Question 35

What is the most expensive state program?

Answer 35

Education

Question 36

Gerrymandering

Answer 36

Rigging the outcome of the election by drawing districts weird

Question 37

What is the major source of conflict in every society of every age?

Answer 37

Battle between income redistribution and income growth

Question 38

What can Congress due to the president

Answer 38

Impeachment

Question 39

What is the law making branch?

Answer 39

Legislative branch

Question 40

Can the president nominate judges?

Answer 40

Yes

Question 41

Who can declare war?

Answer 41

Only Congress

Question 42

What do we share as Americans?

Answer 42

A common set of political ideals. For example declaration of independence

Question 43

What is federalism

Answer 43

States and national government

Question 44

General theme of the Bill of Rights?

Answer 44

Limit the federal government powers A limited government

Question 45

First amendment?

Answer 45

Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, religion

Question 46

Who get a lot of rights

Answer 46

Criminals

Question 47

Civil liberties?

Answer 47

The things your own government can’t do to you

Question 48

Civil rights?

Answer 48

How groups are treated

Question 49

Plessy versus Ferguson 1896?

Answer 49

Separate but equal. Court ruled that segregation was OK as long as everything was equal

Question 50

A liberal’s approach is?

Answer 50

Equality of approach. Equal result at the end of the day.

Question 51

Public opinion?

Answer 51

Always want tax cuts and more government spending. Very contradictory

Question 52

It a good poll how many people need to be sampled?

Answer 52

1000 people

Question 53

The right to vote?

Answer 53

Suffrage

Question 54

What days are elections held on?

Answer 54

Tuesday’s

Question 55

In order to vote you must?

Answer 55

Register

Question 56

How often are elections held?

Answer 56

Every two years

Question 57

Examples of realignment

Answer 57

Civil War when it ended in 1865 changed American politics permanently The great depression 1929

Question 58

What can the Supreme Court do to Congress?

Answer 58

They can throw out laws if they deem them unconstitutional

Question 59

Political parties evolve

Answer 59

A group of people who generally agree on most issues

Question 60

Who got to define our marriage was going to be

Answer 60

The states did in the Supreme Court said gender cannot be part of a criteria for marriage license

Question 61

US Senate majority leader?

Answer 61

Mitch McConnell

Question 62

Speaker of the house of representatives?

Answer 62

Nancy Pelosi

Question 63

Who is the majority leader underneath Nancy Pelosi?

Answer 63

Steny Hoyer from Maryland

Question 64

House of representatives minority leader?

Answer 64

Kevin McCarthy

Question 65

Speaker of California state assembly?

Answer 65

Anthony Rendon