Quiz 3

A  Increased civil rights.

B  Lower taxes.

C  Increased civil liberties.

D  Disenfranchisement of minority groups.

A  It has diminished in relation to state power.

B  It has retracted considerably since the founding of the US.

C  It has grown over time.

D  It has remained fundamentally unchanged.

A  More Democrats than Republicans have been elected president since 1968.

B  The decline of the New Deal coalition and emergence of the conservative movement in American politics.

C  The universal embrace of federal Civil Rights legislation and political equality across the United States.

D  The decline of the Republican party in the American South.

E  The emergence of the American South as a loyal stronghold of the Democratic party in the early 1970s and beyond.

A  the Great Depression

B  pre-Civil War

C  Reconstruction

D  the Revolutionary War

A  The legalization of abortion through a broad interpretation of the 14th Amendment.

B  A broad consensus which significantly expanded the power of the federal government and led to the growth of the modern welfare state.

C  A Republican agenda to eliminate federal regulations on big business.

D  A belief held by most Americans that the federal government was far too big and intrusive.

E  A decrease in federal spending and cut-backs in federal programs like Social Security.

A  Expressed Power

B  Implied Power

C  Police Power

D  Reserved Power

E  Concurrent Power

A  The era of federalism initiated by FDR during the late 1930s.

B  Efforts to return more policy-making discretion to the stats through the use of block grants.

C  The type of federalism that uses categorical grants to influence state action.

D  The national government’s regulation of state action through grant-in-aids.

E  The recent emergence of local governments as important political actors.

A  Loving v. Virginia

B  Gibbons v. Ogden

C  McCulloch v. Maryland

D  Printz v. United States

E  United States v. Lopes

A  26th Amendment

B  1st Amendment

C  14th Amendment

D  10th Amendment

E  5th Amendment

A  Seperation of Powers

B  Checks and Balances

C  Federalism

D  Home Rule

E  Unitary System