Module II Assessment

A  Federalism encourages economic equality across the country.

B  Federalism provides for multiple levels of government action.

C  Federalism accommodates  a diversity of opinion.

D  Federalism promotes political participation.

A  Anti-abortion advocates have steered the abortion issue from the states up to the federal government.

B  MADD steered the drinking age issue from the federal government down to the states.

C  None of the statements are correct.

D  Both MADD and anti-abortion proponents redirected their advocacy from the states to the federal government.

A  More than half the states had legalized same-sex marriage by the time the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal nationwide in 2015.

B  The federal government became involved in this issue when it passed DOMA.

C  In the 1990s and 2000s, the number of state restrictions on same-sex marriage increased.

D  United States v. Windsor legalized same-sex marriage in the United States.

A  Since the 1990s, states have increasingly moved into the policy domain of immigration.

B  The Arizona v. United States decision struck down all of Arizona’s most restrictive provisions on illegal immigration.

C  Federal immigration laws trump state immigration laws.

D  States’ involvement in immigration is party due to their interest in preventing illegal immigrants from accessing services such as education and welfare benefits.

A  The Clean Air Act is a type of federal partial preemptive regulation.

B  New federalism does not promote the use of unfunded mandates,

C  Title VI of the Civil Rights Act establishes crosscutting requirements.

D  The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act has prevented Congress from using unfunded mandates.

A  The federal government allocates the most grant money to income security.

B  The amount of federal grant money going to states has steadily increased since the 1960s.

C  The majority of federal grants are block grants.

D  Block grants tend to gain more flexibility over time.

A  Federal cooperation helps mitigate the problem of collective action among states.

B  Federal assistance encourages state and local governments to generate positive externalities.

C  Federal assistance ensures some degree of uniformity of public services across states.

D  Cooperative federalism respects the traditional jurisdictional boundaries between states and the federal government.

A  United States v. Lopez is a Supreme Court ruling that advanced the logic of new federalism.

B  President Reagan was able to promote new federalism consistently throughout his administration.

C  New Federalism was launched by President Nixon and continued by President Reagan.

D  New Federalism is based on the idea that decentralization of responsibility enhances administrative efficiency.

A  Tenth Amendment and spending clause

B  necessary and proper clause and supremacy clause

C  taxing power and necessary and proper clause 

D  commerce clause and supremacy clause

A  Local and state governments generate an equal amount of revenue from issuing licenses and certificates.

B  Between 30 and 40 percent of the revenue for local and state governments comes from grant money.

C  Taxes generate well over one-half of the total revenue for local and state governments.

D  Property axes generate well the most tax revenue for both local and state governments.

A  In a federal system, power is concentrated in the states; in a unitary system, it is concentrated in the national government.

B  Today there are more countries with federal systems than with unitary systems.

C  The United States and Japan have federal systems, while Great Britain and Canada have unitary systems.

D  In a federal system, the constitution allocates powers between states and federal government; in a unitary system, powers are lodged in the national government.

A  powers given to Congress in Article I of the Constitution

B  twenty-seven amendments added to the Constitution over the years

C  first ten amendments to the Constitution that protect individual freedoms

D  document authored by Thomas Jefferson that details the rights of citizens

A  two-thirds

B  three-fourths

C  one-half

D  all

A  One man could respond to crises more quickly than a group of men like Congress.

B  It was easier to control the actions of one man than the actions of a group.

C  One man could respond to crises more quickly than a group of men like Congress and it was easier to control the actions of one man than the actions of a group.

D  That man would have to pass a religious test before he could become president; thus, citizens could be sure that he was of good character.

A  To encourage states to oppose the Constitution.

B  To oppose the admission of slaveholding states to the federal union.

C  To encourage people to vote for George Washington as the nation’s first president.

D  To encourage New York to ratify the Constitution.

A  It was agreed that a state’s slave population would be counted for purposes of representation but not for purposes of taxation.

B  It was agreed that 60 percent of a state’s slave population would be counted for purposes of both representation and taxation.

C  It was agreed that Congress would abolish slavery in 1850.

D  It was agreed that a state’s slave population would be counted for purposes of taxation but not for purposes of representation.

A  It could not impose taxes.

B  It could not coin money.

C  It could not conduct foreign affairs.

D  It could not declare war.

A  due process

B  the divine right of kings

C  the bill of rights

D  the social contract

A  John Locke

B  James Madison

C  King James II

D  Thomas Jefferson