Test your basic knowledge |

AP Government

Subjects : civics, ap
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the state governments from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without due process of law.






2. Government regulation of property so extensive that government is deemed to have taken the property by the power of eminent domain - for which it must compensate the property owners.






3. The right of women to vote.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


4. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.






5. Divisions within society that reinforce one another - making groups more homogenous or similar.






6. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.






7. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.






8. An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.






9. A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals (each limited to $2000) and present them to a candidate or political party as a 'bundle -' thus increasing the PAC's influence.






10. An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.






11. Formal accusation against a president or other public official - the first step in removal from office.






12. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.






13. Elections held midway between presidential elections.






14. Synonymous with 'collective action -' it specifically studies how government officials - politicians - and voters respond to positive and negative incentives.






15. A government entity that is independent of the legislative - executive - and judicial branches.






16. A commission created by the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act to administer election reform laws. It consists of six commissioners appointed by president and confirmed by the Senate. Its duties include overseeing disclosure of camp






17. The legislative leader selected by the majority party who helps plan party strategy - confers with other party leaders - and tries to keep members of the party in line.






18. A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation - attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention.






19. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.






20. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.






21. A minor party dedicated to the environment - social justice - nonviolence - and the foreign policy of nonintervention. Ralph Nader ran as the Green party's nominee in 2000.






22. Incumbents have an advantage over challengers in election campaigns because voters are more familiar with them - and incumbents are more recognizable.






23. A jury of 12 to 23 persons who - in private - hear evidence presented by the government to determine whether persons shall be required to stand trial. If the jury believes there is sufficient evidence that a crime was committed - it issues an indictm






24. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.






25. A permanent committee established in a legislature - usually focusing on a policy area.






26. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.






27. Policy of erecting trade barriers to protect domestic industry.






28. Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.






29. The inclination to focus on national issues - rather than local issues - in an election campaign. The impact of the national tide can be reduced by the nature of the candidates on the ballot who might have differentiated themselves from their party o






30. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.






31. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.






32. A theory that government should control the money supply to encourage economic growth and restrain inflation.






33. The principle of a two-house legislature.






34. A law that defines crimes against the public order.






35. The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs.






36. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.






37. Constitutional grant of powers that enables each of the three branches of government to check some acts of the others and therefore ensure that no branch can dominate.






38. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.






39. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.






40. A national meeting of delegates elected at primaries - caucuses - or state conventions who assemble once every four years to nominate candidates for president and vice president - ratify the party platform - elect officers - and adopt rules.






41. Primary election in which any voter - regardless of party - may vote.






42. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.






43. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.






44. Agreement signed by the United States - Canada - and Mexico in 1992 to form the largest free trade zone in the world.






45. The authority of a court to hear a case 'in the first instance.'






46. The right to renounce one's citizenship.






47. Tax required to vote; prohibited for national elections by the Twenty-Fourth Amendment (1964) and ruled unconstitutional for all elections in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966).






48. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.






49. Agency that administers civil service laws - rules - and regulations.






50. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.







Sorry!:) No result found.

Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?


Let me suggest you:

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests



Major Subjects

Tests & Exams


AP
CLEP
DSST
GRE
SAT
GMAT

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests