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Study Guide ~ U.S. Government ~ Final Exam Review 18-19
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- 1. Multiple ChoiceWhich individual could qualify as a candidate for President of the United States?Max is 67 years old; he has lived in Ontario, Canada for all of his life; he was born in Detroit.Martha is 45 years old; she has lived in Chicago for the last 18 years; she was born in Tampa.Samuel is 27 years old; he has lived in New York City for the past 3 years; he was born in Israel of American Parents.Karen is 42 years old; she has lived in Boston for the last 26 years; she was born in Ireland of Irish parents.
- 2. Multiple Choice
The 25th Amendment sets out the order of succession to the Presidency. If the President dies, the Vice President is next in line. Which official follows next?
Secretary of State
Secretary of Defense
Speaker of the House
President pro tempore of Senate
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which role does the President perform when speaking at a political rally in support of a candidate running for Congress?
Party Leader
Head of State
Chief Diplomat
Chief Executive
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which governmental body conducts a trial to decide if the President of the United States should be removed or impeached from office for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors?”
Senate
Cabinet
Supreme Court
House of Representatives
- 5. Multiple Choice
How does an Executive Order differ from a law?
Executive Orders are not subject to judicial review.
Executive Orders are not limited by the Constitution.
Executive Orders do not need to be approved by Congress.
Executive Orders are limited to military and foreign affairs.
- 6. Multiple Choice
If the president were to meet with a foreign leader (s)he would be performing which role?
Political Party Leader
Commander in Chief
Chief Diplomat
Chief of Staff
- 7. Multiple Choice
Describe the Vice President's job.
(S)he works as a tie-breaker/mediator for the Senate and handles any duties the president give him/her.
(S)he is the leader of the House of Representatives.
(S)he works as the Secretary of State.
(S)he works as the leader of the military.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which department of the Executive Branch established the country's bank?
Department of Interior
Department of Justice
Department of Treasury
Department of Commerce
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which article of the Constitution creates the Executive Branch?
Article I
Article II
Article IV
Article IV
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is the purpose of the President's Cabinet?
To advise and help the President
To help make laws
To advise Congress
To decide if laws make sense
- 11. Multiple Choice
Describe the purpose of the State of the Union address.
The President nominates individuals to run for Governor.
The President announces to Congress his/her plans and goals for the upcoming year.
The President tells the citizens of the US what Congress is doing wrong.
The President speaks to leaders from other countries about plans for the Middle East.
- 12. Multiple Choice
A president's term is _____ years long, and they can serve a maximum of ____ terms.
5; 3
4; 3
2; 4
4; 2
- 13. Multiple Choice
Describe the checks and balances system when a President vetoes a bill.
The President is preventing a bill that has passed through Congress from becoming a law. However, Congress can overturn the veto and turn the bill into a law with a 2/3 passing vote.
The President gets to use his supreme power to reduce the efficiency of Congress. When he vetoes a bill, that topic can never be discussed again.
- 14. Multiple Choice
Who directly elects the president?
American Citizens
The Electoral College
Immigrants
Naturalized Citizens
- 15. Multiple Choice
What is a pardon?
The President can remove a guilty verdict and eradicate the punishment of anyone in the United States. A get-out-of-jail-free card.
The President can punish anyone in the United States and sentence them to jail.
The President can remove anyone from the United States so long as they are not a US citizen.
The President can appoint anyone they deem worthy to the Supreme Court so long as Congress approves.
- 16. Multiple Choice
What does the Executive Branch do?
It "interprets" the laws.
It "enforces" the laws.
It "creates" the laws.
- 17. Multiple Choice
Why is there a term limit for presidents?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt ran and was elected for three terms. After he died in office, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was created that limited presidents to two terms. This was to prevent corruption and a monarch-like presidency.
Past presidents ran as often as they liked and would often have a monarch-like presidency. To prevent this, the American people established the 50th Amendment to the Constitution that allowed the chance of a three term presidency.
- 18. Multiple ChoiceThe minimum age of a member of the House is25303518
- 19. Multiple Choice
States are authorized to redraw congressional districts following each U.S. Census and often create districts favorable to the party in power in a process called
realignment
gerrymandering
reapportionment
logrolling
- 20. Multiple Choice
Congressional committees and subcommittees exist
to acquire the information needed to pass meaningful and comprehensive legislation
to offer important political posts to influential representatives and senators
to consolidate power in the majority party
to streamline the ever-growing legislative process
- 21. Multiple Choice
Who are the representatives in each party that form the communication network that bring each party together?
Majority leaders
Minority leaders
Committee chairs
Whips
- 22. Multiple Choice
A vote on a bill in the Senate results in a tie. What would likely be the official outcome of the vote on the bill?
The bill would be killed
The Senate would reconvene until another vote could be obtained
The president's party would prevail
The parties would reach a compromise in the conference committee
- 23. Multiple Choice
Every two years, _____ of the Senate must stand for reelection
one-half
three-quarters
two-thirds
one-third
- 24. Multiple Choice
A president can be impeached by the _____ and tried and removed from office by the _____.
House and Senate; Supreme Court
House; Senate
Senate; House
House; House
- 25. Multiple Choice
If the president neither signs nor vetoes a bill within 10 days while Congress is in session, the bill
is pocket vetoed
becomes law
is killed
is sent back to Congress
- 26. Multiple Choice
The most powerful person in the Senate is the
Vice President
President Pro Tempore
Majority Leader
Sergeant-At-Arms
- 27. Multiple Choice
Most democracies outside the United States have a(n)
congressional system
monarchy
parliamentary system
separation-of-powers system
- 28. Multiple Choice
In the 1960s, which issue was the focus of the Supreme Court decisions in Mapp v. Ohio, Gideon v. Wainwright, and Miranda v. Arizona?
freedom of the press
racial segregation
rights of the accused
interstate commerce
- 29. Multiple Choice
“We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”
—Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Which constitutional idea was the basis for this Supreme Court decision?
protection against double jeopardy
equal protection of the law
freedom of speech
right of assembly
- 30. Multiple Choice
What is the main idea of this cartoon from the Watergate era?
The Supreme Court presides over a presidential impeachment trial.
Congress has to obey the Constitution.
The president has the final word involving constitutional issues.
No person or group is above the law.
- 31. Multiple Choice
What was the significance of the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education?
It outlawed the use of poll taxes.
It prohibited the use of racial quotas.
It outlawed segregation in public schools.
It prohibited discrimination by teachers unions.
- 32. Multiple Choice
“Jackie Robinson Breaks Color Barrier in Major League Baseball”
“President Truman Issues Executive Order Desegregating Armed Forces”
“NAACP Challenges School Segregation”
These headlines are most closely associated with
a decline in African American participation in political activities
the beginning of the modern civil rights movement
Southern resistance to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
the effects of affirmative action programs
- 33. Multiple Choice
…You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may want to ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.”…
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
“Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963
Which statement most accurately summarizes the main idea of the passage?
People must obey Supreme Court decisions.
You can never break some laws while obeying others.
Violence brings faster results than peaceful protest.
Following moral principles is sometimes more important than following the law.
- 34. Multiple Choice
Lunch counter sit-ins and the actions of freedom riders are examples of
steps taken in support of the Americans with Disabilities Act
programs dealing with affirmative action
violent acts by the Black Panthers
nonviolent attempts to oppose segregation
- 35. Multiple Choice
"Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
-Brown v. Board of Education
The effect of this Supreme Court ruling was to
establish affirmative action programs in higher education
require the integration of public schools
desegregate the armed forces and the military academies
force states to spend an equal amount on each public school student
- 36. Multiple Choice
Cesar Chavez created the United Farm Workers Organization Committee (UFWOC) in 1966 primarily to
secure voting rights for Mexican Americans
improve working conditions for migrant laborers
provide legal assistance to illegal aliens
increase farm income
- 37. Multiple Choice
Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.
Sweatt v. Painter
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Mendez v. Kirby ISD
- 38. Multiple Choice
The federal law outlawing literacy tests, poll taxes, and other requirements that made it difficult for southern blacks to exercise their right for suffrage
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
- 39. Multiple Choice
Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?
Charlayne Hunter
Harriet Tubman
Rosa Parks
Rebecca L. Felton
- 40. Multiple Choice
A form of nonviolent protest where people stop buying a product?
march
boycott
sit in
activist
- 41. Multiple Choice
This case said the courts had to provide lawyers for those who can't afford one
Mapp v. Ohio
Terry v. Ohio
Gideon vs. Wainwright
Miranda v. Arizona
- 42. Multiple Choice
This case guaranteed certain rights for individuals being arrested
Marbury vs. Madison
Tinker vs. Des Moines
Hazelwood vs. Kuhlmeier
Miranda vs. Arizona
- 43. Multiple Choice
During WWII, the Supreme Court ruled that relocation of Japanese-American citizens to internment camps was constitutional. Over 40 years later, it was officially admitted that this ruling was in violation of the concept of limited government.
Korematsu v. US
University of California v. Bakke
Roe v. Wade
Gideon v. Wainwright
- 44. Multiple Choice
The separation of people based upon race or some other characteristic is referred to as?
Assimilation
Civil Rights
Segregation
Desegregation
- 45. Multiple Choice
The Fifth Amendment states that a person cannot be
tried for the same crime twice {Double Jeopardy}.
forced to give evidence against himself or herself {I plead the 5th}.
deprived of life, liberty, and property without due process of law.
all of the above
- 46. Multiple Choice
According to the Fourth Amendment, the police can search and seize a person's property only if
the neighbors sign a petition.
the chief of police gives permission.
a judge issues a search warrant.
the have a written note from your mother.
- 47. Multiple Choice
Which of these is not allowed, according to the Eighth Amendment?
reasonable bail
reasonable fines
jail terms
cruel & unusual punishments
- 48. Multiple Choice
Why was the Ninth Amendment added to the Constitution?
because the framers worried they might have forgotten an important right
because the framers wanted to make clear that basic rights were guaranteed even if they were not stated specifically
because the Bill of Rights had to have ten parts
because the English Bill of Rights listed nine rights
- 49. Multiple Choice
The Tenth Amendment states that
most powers belong to the national government.
powers not given to the national government or prohibited from the states belong to the states or the people.
the people are the source of all government powers.
the states are the most important part of our government system.
- 50. Multiple Choice
What historic document is the Bill of Rights a part of?
Declaration of Independence
The US Constitution
The Articles of Confederation
The English Bill of Rights
- 51. Multiple Choice
Which of the following rights and freedoms is specifically guaranteed by the first 1st amendment?
Right to an education
Freedom of press
Right to bear arms
Right to privacy
- 52. Multiple Choice
Who is the only person that can veto a bill?
President
vice president
speaker of the House
Supreme Court
- 53. Multiple Choice
What does the executive branch do?
elect the president
make the laws
carry out the laws
count the votes
- 54. Multiple Choice
A group of men and women that are the Presidents advisers are also known as what?
Independent Agencies
President Pro Tempores
FCC
Cabinet
- 55. Multiple Choice
. The ________________ contains the supreme laws of the land of the United States of America.
Declaration of Independence
Constitution
Emancipation Proclamation
Magna Carta
- 56. Multiple Choice
The Senate and the House of Representatives is also called
Party
Congress
Term
Committee
- 57. Multiple Choice
What branch is Congress?
Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
Judicial Branch
Democratic Party
- 58. Multiple Choice
How many justices are on the U.S. Supreme Court?
3
6
9
12
- 59. Multiple Choice
Supreme Court justices are nominated by the _______.
President
Speaker of the House
House of Representatives
Senate
- 60. Multiple Choice
Role of the judicial branch
make laws
interpret laws
enforce laws
impeach a president
- 61. Multiple Choice
Highest court in the land
Appellate courts
Trial courts
District courts
Supreme Courts
- 62. Multiple Choice
The U.S. Supreme Court must make all decisions based on ________.
the Constitution
what the President says
who won the Super Bowl
the weather
- 63. Multiple Choice
How many branches of government are there?
Five
Two
Three
Four
- 64. Multiple Choice
What does the word veto mean?
to approve a law
to say no to a law
to sign a law
to jump
- 65. Multiple Choice
What are the first three words of the Constitution?
In order to
We the people
Once upon a
The United States
- 66. Multiple Choice
What term refers to the system that gives each government branch some power over the others?
Articles of Confederation
Ratification
Federalism
Checks and Balances
- 67. Multiple Choice
What is the name for a change or addition to the Constitution?
Federalism
Amendment
Ratification
Veto
- 68. Multiple Choice
The first 10 Amendments are called...
The Amendments.
The Bill of Rights
Laws
Important Information
- 69. Multiple Choice
One major problem with the Articles is that Congress could not ______ the citizens to raise money
tax
ask
demand
force
- 70. Multiple Choice
What does the word "democracy" mean?
The people rule.
There is a Constitution.
There is a President.
There is freedom of religion
- 71. Multiple Choice
America was founded on three values: equality, justice, and _____.
responsibility
liberty
charity
- 72. Multiple Choice
A __________government is where the people elect leaders who will represent their viewpoint when making government decisions.
Representative
Constitutional
democracy
- 73. Multiple Choice
The US is an example of a federal system of government because
Power is divided between national, state, and local government
There is a President
We have a postal service
We have hospitals
- 74. Multiple Choice
What is one of the most important responsibilities of a US citizen?
Paying Taxes
Giving to charities
Going to church
Voting
- 75. Multiple Choice
Americans have freedoms guaranteed in the ___________.
US Social Code
US Constitution
- 76. Multiple Choice
How the government deals with other countries
Limited Government
Federalism
Neutrality (Isolation
Foreign Policy
- 77. Multiple Choice
Each state has a certain number of electoral votes based on the states_____.
10 Supreme Court Justices
Marbury vs Madison(1803)
Population
- 78. Multiple Choice
When the central government is run by a small group of people.
Autocracy
Democracy
Oligarchy
Parliamentary
- 79. Multiple Choice
What do an absolute monarchy, dictatorship, and oligarchy have in common?
The head of state is chosen by Parliament.
Their citizens decide public issues for themselves.
Political power is exercised by representative elected by the people.
A single individual or small group exercises control over government.
- 80. Multiple Choice
This type of government typically has the most freedoms:
Democracy
Oligarchy
Theocracy
constitutional monarchy
- 81. Multiple Choice
Direct democracy usually only works in...
small areas
religious countries
populations with uneducated people
areas with a king or a queen
- 82. Multiple Choice
A form of Government in which one or a small group of people take complete power over the people and rule by force.
Monarchy
Theocracy
Dictatorship
Democracy
- 83. Multiple Choice
Which form of government is described in the situation below?
•In my country, our voices are often suppressed. We are only allowed to watch three specific television channels, and all of them are controlled by the government. Education and individualism is not a priority. Most people in my country do not go to higher schools and are encouraged to pledge their services to the government when they are older.
Monarchy
Theocracy
Dictatorship
Democracy
- 84. Multiple Choice
Which form of government is described in the situation below?
•I live in a country that has been led by the same family for over 100 years. When the leader dies, their oldest child inherits power from them. This one person makes all the rules, but tries to keep the peoples’ best interests in mind.
Monarchy
Theocracy
Dictatorship
Democracy
- 85. Multiple Choice
Which form of government is described in the situation below?
•In my country, we elect our leaders through the voting process. If we want to make change, we can reelect government officials, protest, or make petitions. The president of our country can only serve for 4 years so he or she doesn’t get too much power. There are also many other elected representatives that have been chosen to act in the peoples’ best interest.
Monarchy
Theocracy
Dictatorship
Democracy
- 86. Multiple Choice
The length of term of members of the House of Representatives is:
2 years
6 years
5 years
4 years
- 87. Multiple Choice
The length of a term of a Senator is:
2 years
4 years
6 years
8 years
- 88. Multiple Choice
In order to do their work, the House and Senate must have present:
three-fourths of the members
two-thirds of the members
more than one-half of the members
all of the members
- 89. Multiple Choice
What is Federalism?
Form of government where power is held by the national
Form of government where power is held by the state
Form of government where power is divided between the national and state.
Form of government where power is held by the President
- 90. Multiple Choice
What is the name of this building?
Supreme Court
White House
Capitol Building
Federal Court
- 91. Multiple Choice
Which branch works in the White House?
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
Judicial Branch
- 92. Multiple Choice
What is the name of this building?
Capitol Building
White House
Supreme Court
Federal Court
- 93. Multiple Choice
Which branch is composed of nine judges?
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
Judicial Branch
- 94. Multiple Choice
The ideas and attitudes that a significant number of Americans hold about government and political issues?
Public Opinion
Random Sampling
political efficacy
mass media
- 95. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is found at the beginning of the Constitution?
Pretest
Preamble
Preface
Preparatory
- 96. Multiple Choice
How does the Bill of Rights limit our government’s power?
It gives the government power.
It keeps the government from having too much power.
It gives the president more power.
It keeps the people from having too much power.
- 97. Multiple Choice
Which is NOT a branch of government
State
Executive
Legislative
Judicial
- 98. Multiple Choice
What historically significant document states that all men are created equal?
Articles of Confederation
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
- 99. Multiple Choice
United States citizens pay taxes to the government. This money is used to pay for services for citizens. Which group is paid for with tax money?
Interstates, post offices, armed forces, national parks
Gas stations, grocery stores, malls, restaurants
Movie theaters, skating rinks, bowling alleys
Factories, cleaning companies, sports teams
- 100. Multiple Choice
"Insure domestic tranquility" means...
to be sure to light candles at home
to be sure there is peace in our nation
to be sure no one leaves houses unlocked
to be sure to be nice to other nations
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