SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CLEP American Government
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
clep
,
civics
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 relaxation of international tensions.
Detente
Shay's Rebellion
Recall
Convention Bounce
2. This clause of the 1st amendment establishes a 'wall of separation' between church and state.
Majority Opinion
Establishment Clause
Open Meeting Law
Nuclear Proliferation
3. Court cases that involve relations between individuals and organizations - such as a divorce action - or a suit for damages arising from an automobile accident or for violation of a business contract.
Senatorial Courtesy
Logrolling
4
Civil Cases
4. ____________ often influence political appointments in an effort to influence bureaucracy.
Blacks
2
Federalist Papers
Interest groups
5. Includes expressive conduct/assembly/actions and symbolic behavior (ex. Picketing or burning the flag) Based on our country history of symbolic acts such as the Boston Tea Party - courts almost always uphold symbolic acts of speech unless they are cr
Federal Appellate
Gerrymandering
Republicans
Speech Plus
6. Voting based on looking back and making judgments about the way things have gone and the kind of government experienced during a political leader's time in office.
Retrospective Voting
Fiscal Policy
Unlimited
Joseph McCarthy
7. Programs mandated by law and not subject to annual review by Congress or the president.
Categorical Grant
Welfare State
Entitlement Programs
Cruel and Unusual
8. The drawing of the lines of congressional districts - or of any other political district - in order to favor one political party or group over another.
Judicial
Gerrymandering
Conventions
Military-Industrial Complex
9. The primary purpose of _______________consolidate the nation's disability laws and provide for strong federal enforcement of a strengthened disability rights mandate
Court of Appeals
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Standing Committees
Press Secretary
10. The belief that one can understand politics and therefore participate in politics
Internal Efficacy
Freedom of Information Act
Rules Committee
31
11. The tendency of presidents to lose support over time.
Authorizations
Libertarianism
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Majority and Minority Leader
12. In California v. Avecedo (1991) - The Supreme Court established that authorities may search ____________________ without a warrant providing reasonable suspicion.
Elastic Clause
Automobiles
Executive Privilege
Impeachment
13. According to V. O. Key - Jr. - the Populist Party of the 1890s is an example of a ____________________.
Party of Economic Protest
7
Increased
Due Process
14. Impact elections by siphoning off votes from major parties spoiling a party's chance in a close race.
Shay's Rebellion
Parallel
House of Representatives
Third Parties
15. Unwritten law based on custom and tradition.
Impartial
Mixed Economy
Public Policy
Common Law
16. Devolutionary system in which the national government returns tax dollars to the state and local governments primarily in the form of block grants.
States
Roe v. Wade
Politics
New Federalism
17. This 1689 English Document made the monarch
Probable Cause
Dark Horse
English Bill of Rights
Defense
18. In 1872 - Susan B Anthony was arrested in Rochester - New York for
Soft money
Prior Restraint
Voting
Hatch Act
19. The house armed services and foreign affairs committees each have ___ subcommittees.
Safe seat
7
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Article VI
20. Washington v. Chrisman (1982) established the _________________ - allowing police officers to seize evidence without a warrant if the evidence is in obvious sight.
Plain View
Republicans
Issue network
Impartial
21. The power to tax is an example of _______________ powers.
Political Efficacy
Inherent Powers
Administrative Law
Concurrent
22. Constitutionally empowered to appoint judges - ambassadors - and other high officials - Constitutionally empowered to make treaties with foreign countries.
John F. Kennedy
President
It Failed to be Ratified
National
23. Programs of government - universities - and businesses designed to favor minorities and remedy past discrimination.
25th Amendment
Power Structure
Free Exercise Clause
Affirmative Action
24. Formal approval or consent given to a constitution - constitutional amendment - or treaty before it goes into effect.
Pocket Veto
Right to Counsel
Ratification
Free Exercise Clause
25. Year of the 2nd Continental Congress.
Situational
1776
Authorizations
Trustee
26. The constitutional requirement (in article II - sec 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws
Confirmed
2/3
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Take Care Clause
27. Raise Public Awareness - Create Policy Agenda - Prioritize Agenda - Enact Policy - Public Evaluation
Pocket Veto
Government Corporations
Policy Making Cycle
14th
28. A method of amending state constitutions under which proposed constitutional amendments can be placed on the ballot if enough signatures are obtained on a petition. Almost half the states also employ the initiative on the ballot to allow voters to en
Social Security
9
Initiative
Dark Horse
29. This rule established by US v. Leon (1984) angered civil liberties groups by allowing exception to the Exclusionary Rule in instances where probably cause may not fully exist.
Good Faith Exception
Voting
Bicameral
Whigs
30. The estimated number of illegal aliens living in the US.
Party Identification
8 Million
Socialism
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
31. A series of 85 articles written by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison under the pseudonym Publius advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution.
Senatorial Courtesy
6
Chief Justice
Federalist Papers
32. A procedure that in certain circumstances permits voters to remove elected state or local officials from office before their terms have expired.
US v. Ballard
Recall
High
House of Representatives
33. Laws - rules - and government programs designed to protect individual rights and specific groups - as well as to benefit society as a whole in such areas as health - worker safety - consumer protection - and the environment.
Federalist Papers
Whip
Social Regulation
Jim Crow Laws
34. Requests from people or groups for health care for the aged - loans for college students - equal opportunity for minorities - and higher subsidies for farmers are examples of:
Demands
Third Parties
Diminish
New Deal Era
35. The chair and the heads of the three armed services - and - when Marine Corps matters are under consideration - the commandant of the marines. By law - they advise the president and the secretary of defense and are the chiefs of their respective mili
Pocket Veto
Social Contract
Capitalism
Joint Chiefs of Staff
36. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the concept of privacy included the right to a legal abortion?
Statutory Law
Cold War
Articles of Confederation
Roe v. Wade
37. This author of Leviathon posited that government is necessary because people are generally in a state of conflict.
Senior Executive Service
Thomas Hobbes
Ex Post Facto
Pork-Barrel Legislation
38. The yearly value of goods and services produced within a country.
Elastic Clause
Gross Domestic Product
Conventions
Regulatory Agencies
39. Article VI - Paragraph 2 - of the Constitution - which declares that the Constitution - and the laws and treaties of the United States made under it - are 'the supreme Law of the Land' and prevail over any conflicting state constitutions or laws.
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Housing and Urban Development
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Supremacy Clause
40. Responsibilities include: Coordinating the nation's intelligence activities and Evaluating and disseminating intelligence that affects national security
Party Identification
Political Patronage
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Separate but Equal
41. He United States Constitution was opposed by which group?
Campaign Contributions
Dies
Royalists
Pork-Barrel Legislation
42. This event was an important factor in creating the climate for a new Constitution.
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
43. This amendment applied the Bill of Rights to states.
Small Business Administration (SBA)
14th
Conglomerates
Federal Appellate
44. Minimum number of voters per state in the Electoral College.
Equal Time
Public hearing
Open Meeting Law
3
45. A broadly based coalition that attempts to gain control of the government by winning elections in order to exercise power and reward its members.
Intelligence
Cold War
Bicameral
Major Political Party
46. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
CORE
Universe
High
Pocket Veto
47. Includes the 13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments. Abolished slavery and guaranteed due process and equal protection to all citizens.
Project Grant
Executive
Civil War Amendments
Agriculture
48. Presides over the Senate without voting privileges except in the case of a tie.
Joseph McCarthy
Vice President
de facto
Agriculture
49. The way things should be by law
de jure
Literacy Tests
Furman v. Georgia
Homeland Security
50. Members of the ______________ committee of a political party work to maintain influence during non election years through congressional campaign committees.
Antitrust Legislation
Cloture
presidential line-item veto
National