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. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Direct orders must be complied with under threat of criminal or civil sanction. An example is the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 - barring job discrimination by state and local gover






2. Weakening of partisan preferences that points to a rejection of both major parties and a rise in the number of independents.






3. An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.






4. The rule of precedent - whereby a rule or law contained in a judicial decision is commonly viewed as binding on judges whenever the same question is presented.






5. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.






6. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.






7. The total amount of money the Federal government has borrowed to finance deficit spending over the years.






8. Clause in the Constitution that states that 'Congress should have the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers. . . .' This clause is also known as the elastic clause as is a major and significant p

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


9. A type of policy that takes benefits (usually through taxes) from one group of Americans and gives them to another (usually through spending).






10. The dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party.






11. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.






12. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.






13. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.






14. A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than political patronage.






15. A congressional committee created for a specific purpose - sometimes to conduct an investigation.






16. Method whereby representatives of the union and employer determine wages - hours - and other conditions of employment through direct negotiation.






17. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.






18. Constitutional arrangement in which sovereign nations or states - by compact - create a central government but carefully limit its power and do not give it direct authority over individuals.






19. The tendency of presidents to learn more about doing their jobs over time.






20. Employment cycle in which individuals who work for governmental agencies that regulate interests eventually end up working for interest groups or businesses with the same policy concern.






21. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.






22. An individual who does not to join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.






23. Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment that forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. By interpretation - the Fifth Amendment imposes the same limitation on the national government. This clause is t






24. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.






25. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.






26. Statement required by Federal law from all agencies for any project using Federal funds to assess the potential affect of the new construction or development on the environment.






27. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.






28. The total output of all economic activity in the nation - including goods and services.






29. Through different grant programs - slices up the marble cake into many different pieces - making it even more difficult to differentiate the functions of the levels of government.






30. The principle of a two-house legislature.






31. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates.






32. The first governing document of the confederated states drafted in 1777 - ratified in 1781 - and replaced by the present Constitution in 1789.






33. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.






34. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.






35. Conceives of federalism as a marble cake in which all levels of government are involved in a variety of issues and programs - rather than a layer cake - or dual federalism - with fixed divisions between layers or levels of government.






36. A close contest; by extension - any contest in which the focus is on who is ahead and by how much rather than on substantive differences between the candidates.






37. Unlimited amounts of money that political parties previously could raise for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.






38. Election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.






39. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.






40. Compromise between northern and southern states at the Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.






41. 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.






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






43. Largely banned party soft money - restored a long-standing prohibition on corporations and labor unions for using general treasury funds for electoral purposes - and narrowed the definition of issue advocacy.






44. A government agency or commission with regulatory power whose independence is protected by Congress.






45. 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.






46. The power to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to national security.






47. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.






48. An opinion that agrees with the majority in a Supreme Court ruling but differs on the reasoning.






49. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.






50. A combination of entitlement programs - paid for by employer and employee taxes - that includes retirement benefits - health insurance - and support for disabled workers and the children of deceased or disabled workers.







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