Exam Study Review Chapters 5 and 6

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

Answer An Expressed Power

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

Answers Protection for Invasion from a foreign power

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

Answer A categorical grant

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

Answers The Full Faith and Credit Clause

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

Answer act of admission

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

Answer enabling act

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

Answers exclusive powers

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

Answer The Privileges and Immunities Clause

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

Answer The Supremacy Clause

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

Answers Extradition Process

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

Answer A Political Party

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

Answers Bonding Agent function

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

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

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

Answers Single-Issue party

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

Answer Splinter Parties

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

Answer An incumbent

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

Answers Bipartisanship/bipartisan

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

Answer The spoils system

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

Answer Precinct

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

Answers Coalition

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

Answer The States

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

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

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

Answer The Civil Rights Act of 1964

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.

Answers The Pre-clearance Provision

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

Answer It is termed Gerrymandering

Key Term 6 What is it called when a court order is filed compelling or restraining a certain action from taking place?

Answer Injunction

Key Term 6 What is the name of process by which people gain their political opinions and knowledge base?

Answers Political socialization