FREE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND STUDY GAMES

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FREE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND STUDY GAMES

ABOUT A.P. GOV VOCABULARY EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Direct mail

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A method of raising money for a political cause or candidate in which information and requests for money are sent to people whose names appear on lists of those who have supported similar views or candidates in the past

Question 2: Nomination

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The official endorsement of a candidate for office by a political party requiring generally momentum, money, and media

Question 3: Medicare

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A program added to the Social Security in 1965 that provides hospitalization insurance for the elderly and provides elderly opportunity to purchase other health insurance for cheap

Question 4: Federal debt

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All the money borrowed by the federal government that is still outstanding

Question 5: Political ideology

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A coherent set of beliefs about politics, public policy, and public purpose which give meaning to political events

Question 6: Secretary of state

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The head of the Department of State and traditionally the key adviser to the president of foreign policy

Question 7: Cooperative federalism

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A system of government in which the state and national government share some duties

Question 8: Consumer price index

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The key measure of inflation-the change in the cost of buying a fixed basket of goods and services

Question 9: Filibuster

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A strategy in the Senate where there can be unlimited debate, thus votes can be postponed or never occur, takes 60 members to overcome a filibuster

Question 10: 15th Amendment

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The last of the Civil War amendments that extended suffrage to African Americans

Question 11: Lobbying

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A communication by someone other than a citizen acting on his or her own behalf directed to a governmental decision maker with the hope of influencing his or her decision

Question 12: Command and control policy

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A typical system of deregulation whereby the government tells businesses what to do, how to do it, and when to do it by, and punishes offenders

Question 13: Libel

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The publication of falsehoods about a person meant to destroy their reputation

Question 14: Interdepency

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Mutual reliance, as in the economic realm

Question 15: Equal Rights Amendment

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A constitutional amendment originally introduced in Congress in 1923 stating that equality cannot be denied on the bases of sex, but it never passed

Question 16: High tech politics

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A politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers and the political agenda itself are increasingly shaped by technology

Question 17: Establishment clause

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Freedom from Congress making a law establishing a religion

Question 18: Blue Dog Democrats

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Fiscally conservative Democrats from the south

Question 19: European Union

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A transnational government composed of most European nations that coordinates monetary, trade, immigration, and labor policies making the member nations a single economic union

Question 20: 14th Amendment

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One of the civil war amendments that states that no state can inhibit due process

Question 21: Elitism

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A theory of American democracy where the upper class holds all of the power regardless of whether they are in government

Question 22: Categorical grants

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Federal grants that can only be used for specific purposes

Question 23: Policy agenda

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The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people involved in politics

Question 24: Deficit

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An excess of federal expenditures over federal revenues

Question 25: Anti-federalists

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Opponents of the US Consitituion

Question 26: Environment Protection Agency

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The largest federal independent regulatory agency, created in 1970 to administer much of US environmental protection policy

Question 27: Dual federalism

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A system of government in which both the state and national governments are supreme in their own sphere