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. Elections that may lead to a basic shift in the party identification of the electorate.
Legislative
Resolutions
Earmarks
Realigning Elections
2. A strand of American foreign policy that was visible by the end of the 19th century; it included 'gunboat diplomacy' and other forms of military involvement by the United States in various parts of the world.
Caucuses
Incorporation Doctrine
Tammany Hall
Interventionism
3. Presides over the Senate in the absence of the Vice President. Position awarded to the longest serving Senator from the majority party. 3rd in line of succession for the Presidency.
General Purpose Grants
Grant Clemency
President Pro Tempore
Great Compromise
4. 1946 Act requiring bureaucratic agencies to appeal to the affected parties before adopting new policies. Legislative check on Bureaucracy.
2
Administrative Procedure Act
Clear and Present Danger
Populous
5. The only court specifically outlined in the Constitution.
Rousseau
Housing and Urban Development
Supreme Court
Earmarks
6. In this case - a gay man from Georgia charged with committing sodomy in his own home with a consenting adult. The court ruled that the Constitution does not explicitly grant the right for homosexuals to practice their lifestyle and that laws against
Bowers v. Hardwick
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Executive Agencies
Freedom of Religion
7. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and cooperate.
Collective Action
Sub-government
Increased competition
Common Sense
8. While both Asian and Hispanic immigrants experience various types of discrimination - Hispanic immigrants are more likely to experience economic discrimination. This explains why most Hispanics identify with the ____________ party - while Asians do n
Muckrakers
It Failed to be Ratified
Democratic
Procedural Due Process
9. 1966 Act allowing citizens to inspect all government records with the exception of classified military or intelligence documents - trade secrets or private personnel files.
Great Compromise
Freedom of Information Act
Due Process
Mayflower Compact
10. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.
Senate Standing Committees
Self-Incrimination
Supreme Court
Liberalism
11. Love of country and a desire for independence; it can also mean an excessive form of patriotism exploited by political leaders.
National Chair
Impoundment
Gerrymandering
Nationalism
12. Guarantees the right to bare arms.
Supreme Court
Probable Cause
2nd Amendment
Baby Boomers
13. Puerto Rico has ____________ status.
Conglomerates
Legislative
Bureaucracy
Commonwealth
14. Requires reporting of financial information by companies with publicly traded securities
Police Powers
Civil War Amendments
435
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
15. Proponents of limited government - unregulated free markets - national self-reliance - and conventional social values are best describes as
Bowers v. Hardwick
Article II
17th
Republicans
16. Bills passed by Congress to pay for the spending it has authorized.
Appropriation Bills
Arraignment
Transnational Relations
Scottsboro Boys Case
17. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not prohibit private affirmative action programs?
Filibuster
Weber
Flexible Construction
Free Exercise of Religion
18. Communication with legislators or other government officials to try to influence their decisions.
Unlimited
Project Grant
Lobbying
Eminent Domain
19. Lead by Daniel Webster and Henry Clay. Dedicated to defending federal authority and high tariffs. Gained supports of merchants - bankers - industrialists and planters.
Intelligence
Raise Public Awareness
Social Contract
Whigs
20. In the year 2000 - the Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America had a constitutional right to ban _____________ members.
Chief Justice
11th Amendment
Gay
100
21. A technique polling organizations use in which several people from the same neighborhood are interviewed.
Cluster Sampling
Balance of Trade
Writ of Certiorari
Petition of Right
22. Ruling by the Supreme Court in 1954 that racial segregation in public schools violates the Fourteenth Amendment's requirement of equal protection of the laws for all persons.
Globalization
Office of Management and Budget
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Political Patronage
23. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the concept of privacy included the right to a legal abortion?
Conventions
Roe v. Wade
Small Business Administration (SBA)
National
24. A controversial law overwhelmingly passed by Congress in October 2001 - after the terrorist attacks of September 11 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It greatly expanded the power of federal law enforcement authorities to move against suspe
Royal Colonies
High
Legislative Veto
Patriot Act
25. An annual meeting held in the spring in many New England towns - at which the townspeople come together to elect a board of selectmen and to discuss local policy questions. It has become a symbol of participatory democracy.
Homeland Security
8th Amendment
Town Meeting
Rousseau
26. A course of action decided upon by a government
Senate
Outputs
Policy
Poll Tax
27. A system in which national and state government have shared or overlapping powers. FDR's New Deal legislation established this system in the US.
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
Unicameral
Judicial Restraint
Democratic
28. The pursuit and exercise of power
Distribution
Politics
3
Plain View
29. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that prohibits any amendment to bills or provides that only memebers of the committee reporting the bill may offer amendments
Lose
Closed rule
Caucuses
Declining
30. The House appropriations committee has ___ subcommittees.
12
It Failed to be Ratified
Freedom of Speech
Speech Plus
31. The yearly value of goods and services produced within a country.
Jus Sanguinis
Riders
Gross Domestic Product
Mark Up Session
32. During the period from 1976 to 1824 - This party was lead by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. They wanted a stronger national government that would rectify the pitfalls of the Articles of Confederation. Their supporters held a stronghold in New
Federalist
Independent
Equality
Nuclear Proliferation
33. A powerful alliance of mutual benefit among an agency or unit of the government - an interest group - and a committee or subcommittee of Congress. Also called a triangle or a subgovernment.
Dred Scott
Iron Triangle
Positive
Voting
34. 1798 Act that criminalized speech that was derisive to the government. Later ruled unconstitutional - Andrew Jackson issued blanket pardon in 1801
Senate Standing Committees
Residual
Whigs
Alien and Sedition Acts
35. A group of people who try to influence policy agendas and whose ultimate goal is to run the government by getting their favorite candidates elected.
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Political Party
4
Low
36. The FCC's equal time policy applies to _____________.
Critical Election
Writ of Assistance
Free Exercise
Political Advertising
37. This may be done by a national constitutional convention called by Congress on the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures OR By the passage of a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress
Bill of Rights
Military-Industrial Complex
Plain View
Propose an Amendment
38. This category of interest groups has been the strongest and most effective in lobbying Washington
Committees
Albany Plan
Economic Interest Groups
Public Bills
39. Cabinet department responsible for managing school lunch programs and food safety. Established in 1862.
Royal Colonies
Open Meeting Law
Agriculture
Legislative Veto
40. A power of the president to kill a bill by taking no action (if Congress adjourns during the 10-day period after the president receives the bill). Some court rulings have suggested that a president may exercise a pocket veto only when Congress adjour
Globalization
Pocket Veto
Closed
2
41. After the bill reaches the house floor - if opponents have many changes - they may vote to ______________________.
Categorical Grants
Council-Manager Plan
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Balance of Payments
42. These party members are highly involved in the electoral process. Donate funds to party and candidates - demand a voice in state party agendas and tend to have a strong belief in their party's ideology.
Electoral Votes
Free Speech
Party Activists
Automobiles
43. Wisconsin Republican who exploited public concern for political gain during the 1950's through freewheeling investigations of alleged Communists.
Thurgood Marshall
Social Contract
Liberalism
Joseph McCarthy
44. The body composed of electors from the 50 states who formally have the power to elect the president and vice president of the United States. Each state has a number of electors and electoral votes equal to its number of senators and representatives i
Electoral College
Police Powers
1964 Civil Rights Act
Legislative
45. The tendency of presidents to lose support over time.
25
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Article III
Hold
46. Eisenhower's philosophy of being liberal in all things human and being conservative with all things fiscal. Appealed to both Republicans and Democrats.
Dynamic Conservatism
8th Amendment
Coast Guard
Regulatory Agencies
47. Direct oral or written speech directed at a specific individual or group
may not
House of Representatives
Political Culture
Pure Speech
48. A course of action chosen by government officials
Elite and Class Theory
Television
Public Policy
Warrant
49. Assistants to the Majority and Minority Leaders of both the House and Senate.
Tariff
Whips
legislative and executive
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
50. Number of justices of the Supreme Court.
Impoundment
Free Exercise of Religion
9
Office Column Ballot