Vocabulary Match

  1. Bill of rights
  2. Confederacy
  3. Expressed powers
  4. Extradition
  5. Federalism
  6. Federalists
  7. Implied powers
  8. Inherent powers
  9. Interstate compacts
  10. Supremacy clause
  11. exclusive powers
  12. concurrent powers
  13. Roger Taney
  14. denied powers
  15. elastic clause
  16. Ex post facto
  17. McCulloch v. Maryland
  18. Dred Scott v. Sandford
  19. New Deal
  20. Federal Grant-in-Aid
  21. Block Grants
  22. Reagan Revolution
  23. Clinton’s Contract with America
  24. William Rehnquist

  1. When disputes arise between states, they are encouraged to work things out through these.
  2. ONLY the states have these powers
  3. Reagan’s plan to give undesignated funds to states to use for general purposes
  4. The clause in the Constitution that declares the Constitution the “supreme law of the land”.
  5. A group of people including Alexander Hamilton that proposed a stronger national government
  6. Specific powers of the federal government
  7. Laws made after the fact
  8. Johnson’s plan to control states with money for specific programs
  9. System of government in which the central government operates under the direction of its members or states
  10. Powers not listed but necessary to carry out the expressed powers
  11. Sending fugitives back to the state of origination to honor arrest warrants
  12. A system of government in which decision making powers are divided among various individuals or groups
  13. Court Case which dramatically increased the size of the federal government by defining the right to tax.
  14. Powers shared by the federal and state governments
  15. Clinton created this plan to work with a Republican Congress
  16. The first ten amendments to the Constitution
  17. Reagan’s movement to decrease the size of the federal government
  18. “What they said” powers.
  19. Supreme Court Justice whose Court returned power to states during Civil War era
  20. Powers the government is forbidden to use
  21. Court case which gave the South the right to define who was a slave and who was not.
  22. FDR’s plan to pull us out of Great Depression which increased size of government
  23. Reagan’s Supreme Court appointee whose Court who used his decisions to give power back to the states