AP US GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS MID-YEAR EXAM
1. How are Constitutional amendments proposed and ratified?
2. The Federalist Papers #10, #51, #78
3. Judicial review
4. Compare the Anti-Federalists & Federalists
5. Direct democracy:
6. Referendum, Initiative, & Recall.
7. John Locke
8. Democratic Republic
9. Limited government
10. Majoritarianism:
11. McCulloch v. Maryland
12. Pluralism
13. political socialization.
14. capitalism
15. Constitutional Amendments
16. Political Spectrum
17. U.S. voter turnout
18. Mayflower Compact
19. Charles Beard’s political interpretation:
20. Common Sense,
21. The Bill of Rights
22. The original draft of the Declaration of Independence included ______, which had to be removed to gain the unanimous approval of all the colonies.
23. Articles of Confederation.
24. How is a national constitutional convention called?
25. The Great Compromise
26. The Three-Fifths Compromise
27. In what way does the Supreme Court check the Congress?
28. In what way does the President of the United States check the Congress?
29. The Framers established that the Constitution would be ratified if approved by:
30. What advantages spring from a system of federalism?
31. enumerated powers.
32. "elastic clause"
33. inherent powers.
34. The ______states that the powers not given to the federal government by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the states, are reserved to the states.
35. The Supremacy Clause
36. Vertical checks and balances?
37. full faith and credit clause
38. In Gibbons v. Ogden
39. Chief Justice ______did much to increase the power of the national government and to reduce that of the states in the early part of the Nineteenth Century.
40. dual federalism.
41. Court-packing scheme
42. Categorical grants
43. federal mandate.
44. devolution.
45. revenue sharing.
46. What is the difference between Civil Liberties and Civil Rights?
47. War Amendments (post-Civil War)
48. Plessy v. Ferguson
49. Smith v. Allwright
50. Obstacles to minority voting
51. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
52. De facto? De Jure?
53. Civil Rights Act of 1964.
54. Voting Rights Act of 1965.
55. Civil Rights Act of 1968.
56. Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique
57. The Equal Rights Amendment
58. The glass ceiling
59. affirmative action.
60. reverse discrimination
61. electoral college system
62. The commerce clause of the Constitution
63. The habeas corpus clause of the Constitution
64. 1973 Roe v. Wade decision
65. "Don't ask, don't tell"
66. block grants.
67.Incorporation theory
68. Miranda v. Arizona
69.The clear and present danger test
70.Slander? Libel?
71. Gitlow v. New York
72. Gag orders
73. gerrymandering
74. The exclusionary rule
75. The Patriot Act
76. Texas v. Johnson
77. In order to win in American politics today, candidates seek to capture whose votes?
78. Tracking polls are used
79. The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002
80.An office holder who cannot or will not run for office again is called a(n)______. This status is based on their tenure of office in the time period after an election and before the next inauguration.
81.Advantages of incumbency include:
82.Redistricting
83. Purposes of a party convention include:
84. The first televised presidential debates were between ______&______.
85. The method of choosing delegates used by the state of Iowa is ______.
86. During the last half-century, the Democrats have been known as the party of:
87. How is the number of electors each state will have in the Electoral College determined?
88. When selecting a vice-presidential candidate a presidential nominee is usually concerned primary with choosing a running mate who:
89. The McCain-Feingold bill
90. Registered voters directly elect which of the following?
I. The President and Vice President
II. Supreme Court Justices
III. Members of the Senate
IV. Members of the House of Representatives
91. What groups typically vote for liberal candidates?
92. Most voters who identify themselves as ______nonetheless acknowledge that they lean toward one party or another.
93. sampling error.
94. Presidential election of 2000:
95. Common Cause
96. Lobbyists: Techniques and Strategies
97. Political action committees (PACs)
98. Presidents exercise their influence over the ideology of federal courts by
99. ______groups represent people in the electorate who feel strongly about a certain cause.
100. “iron triangle”
101. "revolving door"
102. The major difference between the Democratic and Republican parties.
103. A voter or a candidate who does not identify with a political party is called ______.
104. What is most likely to influence a voter's choice in a presidential election?
105. The major difference between a political party and an interest group?
106. faction
107. Functions of political parties in the United States include all of the following except
108. Loyal Opposition
109. "The era of good feelings"
110. "527s"
111. Progressivism
112. White southerners likely shifted to the Republican party from the Democratic party for what reason?
114. What is the difference between a political party and an interest group?
115. Faction
116. What are the functions of political parties?
117. If political parties in the United States did not search out and encourage political hopefuls voters would have limited choices.
118. A political system in which only two parties have a reasonable chance of winning is called ______.
119. Most scholars accept the first partisan political division in the United States to be between ______.
120. Describe the Federalists:
121. What was George Washington view on political parties?
122. Democratic-Republican Party:
123. Christian Coalition, which is usually aligned with the ______party actively focuses on protection of rights regarding the issue of moral & ethical values?
124. The most comprehensive anti-bias legislation in American history made discrimination in public places illegal and protected equal opportunities for employment, regardless of race, color, religion, or national origin. What was this legislation?
125. According to the 2000 census, which group is growing at the fastest rate?
126. Equal Rights Amendment
127. During the last half-century, the Republicans have been known as the party of ______.
128. A major development resulting from the existence of the early political parties was the ______transfer of power from one group to another.
129. The “era of good feelings" ?
130."527s"
131. Early Democratic Party
132. Progressivism
133. The Tenth Amendment
135. Federalism
136. Amicus curiae briefs
137. Compare “fiscal federalism” and “cooperative federalism”
138. Dred Scott decision
139. How do you formally amending the United States Constitution?
140. First Amendment
141. The “wall of separation” doctrine
142. How do lobbyists try to influence legislators?
143.States and localities have the most discretion in establishing policy when federal funding is derived from ______grants.
144. In the Federalist No.10, what was James Madison’s position on factions?
145. Explain the concept of unfunded mandates
146. What was the most important effect of replacing the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution of 1787?
147. 14th Amendment
148. Compare and contrast Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansa 1954
and Regents of the University of California v. Bakke 1978.
149. free rider
150. According to public opinion research, which groups tend to hold liberal political views?