POSC CH 1-5

Question 1

what is politics

Answer 1

who gets what, when and how

Question 2

what is government?

Answer 2

This is designed to provide “public goods”: goods that benefit everyone but that no individual or group on its own can afford to supply.

Question 3

what is political efficacy?

Answer 3

the Belief in the ability to influence what government does

Question 4

A system that allows citizens to vote directly for laws and policies.

Answer 4

Direct Democracy

Question 5

Citizens need this to properly assess their interests
and know when to act on them.

Answer 5

political knowledge

Question 6

Two groups of people negatively impacted by Great Britain’s new taxes.

Answer 6

New England Merchants and Southern planters.

Question 7

The first written Constitution in the U.S.

Answer 7

AOC

Question 8

The tipping point of the Articles of Confederation (the last straw)

Answer 8

Shay’s Rebellion

Question 9

A plan calling for a system of proportional representation based on population size.

Answer 9

Virginia Plan

Question 10

Direct election of senators was instituted with this & the year it was passed.

Answer 10

17th amendment - 1913

Question 11

states’ rights amendment in the Bill of Rights

Answer 11

10th Amendment

Question 12

This type of federalism has intergovernmental cooperation that has blurred the lines between the states and the national governments.

Answer 12

marble cake/cooperative

Question 13

This Supreme Court case overturned/struck down DOMA

Answer 13

US v. Windsor (2013)

Question 14

The Supreme Court case that ruled that the U.S. Congress had, through its implied powers, the legal right to charter a national bank

Answer 14

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

Question 14

This event triggered the transition from dual federalism to cooperative federalism.

Answer 14

great depression

Question 15

This Supreme Court case ruled that children cannot be required to salute the flag if it violates their religious faith.

Answer 15

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)

Question 15

This entity determines whether sufficient evidence is available to justify trial

Answer 15

the Grand Jury

Question 16

the right of every citizen to be free of arbitrary action by the national or state government

Answer 16

due process

Question 16

This Supreme Court case ruled that Obamacare’s requirement that employers provide female employees with free contraceptive coverage violated employers’ religious beliefs

Answer 16

Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores (2014).

Question 17

the Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors could not attach a Global Positioning System (GPS) device to a vehicle to secretly monitor a suspect

Answer 17

US v. Jones (2012)

Question 18

what is the insider strategy?

Answer 18

When movement leaders of work inside the political system to pass legislation, win a court case or secure an executive order

Question 19

This Supreme Court Case found that laws criminalizing sexual behavior are a violation of the right to privacy.

Answer 19

Lawrence v. TX (2003)

Question 20

This law barred literacy and other tests for voting and set criminal penalties for interference with efforts to vote.

Answer 20

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 21

States particularly in the South require people voting to bring this; often negatively impacting communities of color and folks on the lower end of the SES spectrum.

Answer 21

Voter ID laws

Question 22

The process by which a group of people organize and act based on a shared goal?

Answer 22

Collective Action

Question 23

Gibbons v. Ogden

Answer 23

Congress, not states, has the power to regulate interstate commerce.

Question 24

Miranda v. Arizona

Answer 24

The Fifth Amendment requires that law enforcement officials advise suspects of their right to remain silent and to obtain an attorney during interrogations while in police custody.

Question 25

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 25

Mandating "separate but equal" facilities for Black and white Americans

Question 26

Loving v. Virginia

Answer 26

state laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional.

Question 27

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 27

outlawed racial segregation in public schools

Question 28

Obergefell v. Hodges

Answer 28

ruled that the equal protection clause guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry

Question 29

What are the five Beauties of American representative democracy?

Answer 29

Federalism, bicameralism, staggered elections, C&B, Separation of powers

Question 30

Representative democracy

Answer 30

people select representatives

Question 30

Direct democracy

Answer 30

A system that permits citizens to vote directly on laws and policies

Question 31

Bill of rights

Answer 31

personal freedom

Question 31

Civil liberties

Answer 31

limitations on the government’s ability to interfere with the individual

Question 32

Civil rights

Answer 32

guarantees of equal opportunity and protection

Question 33

Implied powers

Answer 33

stem from elastic clause

Question 34

expressed powers

Answer 34

powers granted by constitution to congress & President (article 1, section 8)

Question 35

3 branches of govt

Answer 35

legislative, executive, judiciary

Question 36

Do Americans trust the government?

Answer 36

Public trust has declined, many reluctant to grant govt too much power

Question 37

Digital citizenship

Answer 37

ability to participate in society online

Question 38

1st Continental Congress

Answer 38

A meeting of delegates from 12 American colonies in 1774

Question 39

Declaration of Independence (as a philosophical & political document)

Answer 39

1. States rights are unalienable 2. Explains why the colonists rebelled against Great Britain and sought self-government

Question 40

New Jersey plan

Answer 40

Each state has to have equal representation

Question 41

Shay's rebellion revealed?

Answer 41

weakness of AOC

Question 42

Constitutional government

Answer 42

A system of rule in which formal and effective limits are placed on the powers of the government

Question 43

13th, 14th, 15th amendments

Answer 43

13th: abolished slavery 14th: equal protection rights & due process 15th: voting rights for black men

Question 44

To enter a local workplace is a ____ power, which is given to ____

Answer 44

police, states

Question 45

4th amendment

Answer 45

Guarantees the security of the citizens against unreasonable searches and seizures (United States v. Jones)

Question 46

Selection of the president through an ____

Answer 46

electoral college

Question 47

Outside strategy

Answer 47

Organizing to transform public opinion

Question 48

A series of programs and policies implemented by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) in response to the Great Depression

Answer 48

New Deal

Question 49

Mechanisms through which each branch of government can participate in and influence activities of the other branches

Answer 49

Checks and Balances

Question 50

Organizations mounted after the Brown decision

Answer 50

Montgomery Bus Boycott (started after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat)

Question 51

Federalists

Answer 51

Stronger govt, supported constitution, wrote federalists papers

Question 52

Antifederalists

Answer 52

Strong state govt, decentralized govt

Question 53

Amendment that gives freedom of religion

Answer 53

1st amendment

Question 54

Establishment Clause vs Free Exercise Clause (hint: religion)

Answer 54

1. Freedom from the state imposing any particular religion 2. Freedom to practice religion of choice w/o state interference

Question 55

Marbury vs. Madison

Answer 55

Court case that established the principle of judicial review in the United States

Question 56

17th amendment

Answer 56

Election of senators

Question 57

District of Columbia v. Heller

Answer 57

2nd amendment provides a constitutional right to keep a loaded gun at home for self-defense