Chapter 3: The Federal System

Question 1

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 1

16th U.S. president

Question 2

Andrew Johnson

Answer 2

17th U.S. president

Question 3

Barrack Obama

Answer 3

44th U.S. president

Question 4

Barron v. Baltimore (1833)

Answer 4

Decided that the Bill of Rights restricts federal powers but not states’ powers

Question 5

Bill of attainder

Answer 5

Act of legislature that declares (a) person(s) guilty, sometimes without trial

Question 6

Block grant

Answer 6

A large sum of money granted to a state by the federal government

Question 7

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 7

An american politician and the 30th president of the U.S.

Question 8

Categorical grants

Answer 8

Grants issued by the United States congress to improve the overall well-being of citizens.

Question 9

Civil War

Answer 9

War between Northern and Southern U.S. states

Question 10

Charter

Answer 10

Lays out powers, duties and structures of govt.

Question 11

Concurrent powers

Answer 11

Powers shared between states and federal government

Question 12

Confederate states of America

Answer 12

Southern states that seceded in the 19th century due to disputes over slavery

Question 13

Confederation

Answer 13

an organized alliance, sometimes official

Question 14

Cooperative federalism

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Where national, state, and local governments collaborate on how to better the country

Question 15

Counties

Answer 15

A region of a state containing cities

Question 16

Democracy

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A system of government for the people, by the whole population or it’s elite members

Question 17

Dillon’s Rule

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A municipal government has authority to act only when : (1) the power is granted in the express words of the statute, private act, or charter creating the municipal corporation; (2) the power is necessarily or fairly implied in, or incident to the powers expressly granted

Question 18

Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

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Court case that deemed “separate but equal’ laws and rules okay.

Question 19

Dual federalism

Answer 19

Where power is divided between the federal and state governments

Question 20

Enumerated powers

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Powers granted to the government

Question 21

Ex post facto law

Answer 21

Changes legal action of consequences of actions. to match current law.

Question 22

Extradition clause

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Returns a criminal back to the state where their crime was commited

Question 23

Federal system

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Combining general and regional government

Question 24

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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32nd US president

Question 25

Full faith and credit clause

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The United States have to respect the "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state."

Question 26

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

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Gave U.S. the power to regulate interstate commerce

Question 27

Great Society

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Program by L.B. Johnson that sponsored social welfare programs

Question 28

Herbert Hoover

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31st U.S. president

Question 29

Implied powers

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Powers not necessarily listed in the constitution, but still given to the federal government

Question 30

Interstate Commerce

Answer 30

Exchange of goods between states

Question 31

Iroquois Confederacy

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A confederation of Native American Indians

Question 32

John C. Calhoun

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Vice president of Monroe who supported annexation of Texas

Question 33

John Marshall

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Chief justice who established Supreme Court's role in federal government

Question 34

Lyndon B. Johnson

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36th U.S. president

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McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

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Court case that gave the national government the power to establish a bank

Question 36

Monarchy

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A select group of dynastic individuals to run a government

Question 37

Municipalities

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A city or town that is given governmental duties by the federal government

Question 38

Oligarchy

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Power of government lies with small group of people with family ties or wealth

Question 39

Privileges and immunities clause

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All states get equal treatment

Question 40

Programmatic request

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Federal funds designated for special projects

Question 41

Progressive federalism

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Gives states more control than normal federalism

Question 42

Reconstruction

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The period of rebuilding the U.S. after the Civil War

Question 43

Reserved powers

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Powers not listed but still given to the Federal Government

Question 44

Roger B. Taney

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Chief Justice who made pro-slavery ruling in Dred Scott court case

Question 45

Ronald Reagan

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40th U.S. President

Question 46

Secession

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To formally withdraw from a group or organization

Question 47

Seventeenth Amendment

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Two senators for every state

Question 48

Sixteenth Amendment

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Congress has power to levy taxes

Question 49

Special district

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A local or regional government with responsibility for some single function

Question 50

Tenth Amendment

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Powers not given to federal government are given to states.

Question 51

Totalitarianism

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A tyrannical form on government that supports only one party's interest

Question 52

Unitary system

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Where central government is supreme

Question 53

New Deal

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Programs and projects that were aimed to restore prosperity to Americans during the Great Depression.

Question 54

New Federalism

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Giving the majority of powers to the states

Question 55

Nullification

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The act of cancelling something