United States Government

Question 1

A type of system of government where the members of the executive branch are drawn from the legislative.

Answer 1

Parliamentary system

Question 2

Any coalition of people that attempt to sway the political process to further it’s own agenda.

Answer 2

Special interest group

Question 3

Build around a special interest to promote a specific candidate or advance the interest of an affinity group

Answer 3

Special interest group

Question 4

This person is the president of the senate

Answer 4

Vice President

Question 5

The senate

Answer 5

Ratifies treaties with foreign government. May also try to convict or impeached officials

Question 6

The separation of powers

Answer 6

A model of the government where political authority is distributed amount many different positions ensuring there is no single official accumulates to much power.

Question 7

A political philosophy that holds that government is formed by a voluntary gathering of people who consent to be ruled over by a constitutionally limited central body.

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Federalism

Question 8

What is the First Amendment?

Answer 8

Give citizens the right to protection of religion, freedom of speech and press, freedom of assembly.

Question 9

What is the Bill of Rights?

Answer 9

Contains the rights of US citizens

Question 10

What is the Second Amendment?

Answer 10

The right to bear arms.

Question 11

Which amendment gives the right to a fair and speedy trial?

Answer 11

The Fifth Amendment

Question 12

Which amendment was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1857?

Answer 12

The 14th amendment that Black man and women in United States could not become citizens

Question 13

The doctrine written in 1862 was issued by Lincoln. It freed all slaves in the rebel states. Gave civil war a new moral purpose.

Answer 13

Emancipation proclamation

Question 14

The belief that the US had a special and Divine duty to spread over the entire North American continent.

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Manifest destiny

Question 15

This law and regulation stated citizens of the United States must not be denied the right to vote based on their race.

Answer 15

The fifteen amendment

Question 16

Which amendment gave Women the right to vote.

Answer 16

19 th amendment

Question 17

What is oligarchy?

Answer 17

A government that is governed by a small upper-class group the leaders are not elected by the people.

Question 18

What is the Monroe doctrine?

Answer 18

The United States policy declared in 1823. No European nation should intervene in America’s growth and colonization in the Western Hemisphere.

Question 19

What is a constitutional monarchy?

Answer 19

A system of government with a monarch and a parliament.
The monarch (king or queen) as head of state but parliament is provided authority.

Question 20

Name countries that are a constitutional monarchy.

Answer 20

United Kingdom. Australia, Canada, Denmark, and New Zealand.

Question 21

What is the 13th amendment?

Answer 21

Abolishment of slavery

Question 22

This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld the segregation that occurred during reconstruction.

Answer 22

Plessy vs. furgeson

Later overturned

Question 23

This body of government deals with interpretations of the constitution.

Answer 23

Supreme Court

Question 24

This term is given to the Influential effort of the interest groups. They influence lawmakers through education efforts. Communicating the concerns and ideas of the special interest groups and they go as far as drafting legislation the lawmaker then submit to congress.

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Lobbyist

Question 25

Three levels and branches of the federal government?

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Judicial executive and legislative

Question 26

Term to describe the action of making accusations of patriotic disloyalty without evidence.

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Macarthyism

Question 27

First ten amendments

Answer 27

The original bill of rights

Question 28

The ratification of the eighth amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Answer 28

Banned cruel and unusual punishment

Question 29

When a country removes I self ( Econ, socially or militarily) from something it had previously invested.

Answer 29

Divestment