Unit Exam Study Review

1. Unit Exam Study Review Chapters 4, 5, and 6

2. Questions 4 • The National Government has the power to coin money. What kind of power is that?

3. Answer • An Expressed Power

4. Question 4 • One of the National Governments obligations to the States is to protect them from what?

5. Anwsers • Protection for Invasion from a foreign power

6. Question 4 • A Grant that provides assistance for low-income sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease is what kind of grant?

7. Answer • A categorical grant

8. Question 4 • What Clause states that each State must respect and recognize the validity of actions taken in other States?

9. Answers • The Full Faith and Credit Clause

10. Key Terms 4 • What is the congressional act that enables a state to join the union?

11. Answer • act of admission

12. Key Terms 4 • What is the congressional act directing a U.S. territory to frame a proposed State constitution?

13. Answer • enabling act

14. Key Terms 4 • What are the powers held only by the National Government?

15. Anwsers exclusive powers

16. Key terms 4 • What Clause states that no State can draw unreasonable distinctions between its residents and those of other States?

17. Answer • The Privileges and Immunities Clause

18. Key Terms 4 • What Clause declares that the Constitution is the “supreme law of the land”?

19. Answer • The Supremacy Clause

20. Key Terms 4 • What is the name of the legal process by which a fugitive from justice is returned to the original prosecuting state?

21. Answers Extradition Process

22. Question 5 • What is the termed used to describe a group of people with shared ideas who seek to control government?

23. Answer • A Political Party

24. Question 5 • When Party leaders pressure a member of their own party to resign because of ethics violations this is what kind of function?

25. Answers • Bonding Agent function

26. Question 5 • Which party has dominated the Federal Government in recent decades?

27. Answer • neither of the major parties this particular era is know as the “Era of divided Government”

28. Question 5 • The Free Soil Party is what type/kind of political party?

29. Answers • Single-Issue party

30. Key terms 5 • Parties that split from a major party are called?

31. Answer • Splinter Parties

32. Key terms 5 • What is the term used when describing someone who is running for re-election, What are they called?

33. Answer • An incumbent

34. Key terms 5 • What term is used when saying that two political parties are working together. They are practicing?

35. Answers Bipartisanship/bipartisan

36. Key Terms 5 • What is the name of the system in which elected officials give public offices to political supporters?

37. Answer • The spoils system

38. Key Term 5 • What is the smallest unit of election administration.

39. Answer • Precinct

40. Key Term 5 • What is it called when several groups create a temporary alliance and come together to form a working majority?

41. Answers Coalition

42. Question 6 • The Constitution gives who the power to set suffrage (voting) qualifications?

43. Answer • The States

44. Question 6 • The 24th Amendment states that , no State can do what?

45. Answers • Require payment of any tax as a condition for voting for President or Vice President.

46. Question 6 • What Congressional Act banns the use of discriminatory voting registration requirements.

47. Answer • The Civil Rights Act of 1964

48. The provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that requires prior approval by the Justice Department before election laws in certain States can be changed is called what.

49. Answers • The Preclearance Provision

50. Key terms 6 • What is it called when shady tactics are used when drawing electoral district lines to limit a group’s voting strength?