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 nation's set of fundamental beliefs about how government and politics should be conducted.
Great Compromise
Bipartisanship
Natural Rights
Political Culture
2. Clause in the 14th Amendment that forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. The 5th Amendment also imposes this limitation on the national government.
Discharge Petition
Equal Protection Clause
Implied
Formula Grant
3. Form of obstruction in the Senate where an attempt is made to infinitely extend debate upon a proposal in order to delay the progress or completely prevent a vote on the proposal taking place.
Retrospective Voting
16th Amendment
Filibuster
Decreased
4. These voters are registered as a party member but only participate by voting in primary and general elections. Tend to vote straight-party ticket and follow the leads of local party officials.
Rank and File
Commonwealth
Appropriation Bills
Two Trial
5. The formal source of all authority in each major political party. It nominates the party candidates for president and vice president - writes a platform - settles disputes - writes rules - and elects the members of the national committee.
Government
Internal Efficacy
Dynamic Conservatism
National Convention
6. Age Requirement for House of Representatives.
Little Difference
Rousseau
25
Statutory Law
7. Lobbyists for special interest groups have found ____________________ to be the most direct and effective method to secure their objectives in Congress.
Free Exercise of Religion
Outputs
Campaign Contributions
Internationalism
8. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was somewhat undermined by racist practices in the real estate market such as _____________ and ______________ - which continued illegally in many areas following passage of the Act.
Poll Tax
Policy Making Cycle
blockbusting and redlining
Ways and Mean Committee
9. Number of current cabinet positions under GW Bush.
Lobbying
Incumbents
Patriot Act
15
10. Permitted court authorized wire-tapping and bugging by federal - state - and local authorities and use of such evidence in trial. Later reversed by the Supreme Court based on 4th Amendment rights.
Electoral College
High
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Critical Election
11. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) - founded in 1932 by President Herbert Hoover to help combat the Great Depression - was the predecessor of which federal agencies?
Right to Counsel
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Pure Speech
Article IV
12. 1946 Act requiring bureaucratic agencies to appeal to the affected parties before adopting new policies. Legislative check on Bureaucracy.
Administrative Procedure Act
5
Trial Balloon
Catholics
13. The response of the rest of society to actions by the authorities.
2nd Amendment
Pluralist
Feedback
Self-Incrimination
14. New Jersey v. TLO (1985) established that school authorities may search students without _____________ as long as they are reasonable.
25
Probable Cause
Rank and File
Restrictive Covenant
15. Federal laws limit the amount of ___________ that can be donated directly to campaign coffers.
Convention Bounce
Soft money
Logrolling
Redistributive Policy
16. ______________________is responsible for the management of the federal debt and the printing of currency. It is the major fiscal policy agency.
Standing Committees
Department of Treasury
Prior Restraint
Senate Standing Committees
17. In Argersinger v. Hamlin (1972) - the Supreme Court extended the right to counsel to those accused of misdemeanors if the defendant is _____________.
Regulatory Agencies
Isolationism
Prior Restraint
imprisoned
18. Groups named for the section of the Internal Revenue Service code under which they must report their expenditures. The tax-exempt groups were created to exploit a loophole in the law regulating campaign finance.
Independent
Executive Privilege
527 Organizations
3
19. Cabinet department responsible for the management of public lands - wildlife - natural resources - and Native American affairs. Established in 1849
Interior
Contract Clause
7th Amendment
Separate but Equal
20. In the view of W. Lance Bennett - the people who hold and express opinions are constantly changing - as are the issues and conditions to which the public responds. As a result - Bennett suggests that public opinion is______________.
unlimited
Situational
Criminal Information
Independent Expenditures
21. A small group of voters chosen by a political campaign for their demographic similarities who are brought together to gauge how the group they represent feels about the candidate.
Party of Economic Protest
Mallory Rule
Elite
Focus Groups
22. ____________ often influence political appointments in an effort to influence bureaucracy.
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Strategic Deterrence
Interest groups
Retrospective Voting
23. Multi-interest and often multinational corporations that - under one corporate roof - may manufacture a wide variety of products.
Article II
Commonwealth
Unlimited
Conglomerates
24. Formerly known as the Anti-Federalist - this party lead by Thomas Jefferson advocated states rights pressing the causes of the common people and agrarian interest. Dominated the political arena until the Civil War.
89
Suburbia
Murray v. Curlett
Democratic-Republicans
25. Responsible for assigning bills to committee in the Senate.
Majority Rule
National Political Parties
Pluralist Theory
Majority and Minority Leader
26. Economists generally agree that the major responsibility for promoting prosperity and full employment falls on ________________.
Balancing Test
Government
Veteran's Affairs
12th Amendment
27. A study of Bennington College students in the 1930s illustrated that the influence of the family on political attitudes tends to ______________ as they grow older and come into contact with other groups.
Petition of Right
Diminish
Marshall Plan
US Trade Representatives
28. First Roman Catholic elected President.
John F. Kennedy
Elite and Class Theory
Office of Management and Budget
12th Amendment
29. An opinion of one or more judges expressing disagreement with the majority opinion of the court which gives rise to its judgment.
Dissenting Opinion
High
Albany Plan
Patriot Act
30. Powers of government that the national government may exercise simply because it exists as a government - such as the right to conduct foreign relations.
Inherent Powers
Spoiler Candidate
Political Socialization
Police Powers
31. An economic system of free enterprise with private ownership of the means of production.
Baker v. Wingo
Politics
Capitalism
Political Culture
32. Infamous 1735 English case established the precedent for Freedom of the Press in the US.
Libertarianism
Grant Clemency
Block Grant
Zenger
33. Head of the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice
Pork Barrel Spending
Entitlement Programs
Blacks
34. A writ designed to protect against illegal imprisonment by requiring that a person who is detained be brought before a judge for investigation.
Separate but Equal
de facto
Writ of Certiorari
Royal Colonies
35. The belief that all people possess certain basic rights that may not be abridged by government.
Private Bills
Natural Rights
Royalists
Poll Tax
36. This term refers to the gain in the polls that a candidate often enjoys after a national convention
Mark Up Session
Isolationism
Convention Bounce
Libertarianism
37. A vote in the House of Representatives in which the position of each member is noted and published in the Congressional Record.
Civilian Supremacy
Jury of Peers
Closed Shop
Recorded Vote
38. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
Blacks
Segregation
Selective Incorporation
Redistributive Policy
39. In addition to overseeing the activities of one or more federal agencies - a ___________________may also serve as the authorizing committee for federal agencies' programs and operations.
congressional oversight committee
Referendum
Popular Sovereignty
Interior
40. Smith v. Allwight (1994) was the first vase in which the Supreme Court upheld the voting rights of _____________ in state primary elections.
Jim Crow Laws
Blacks
Baker v. Wingo
Mixed Economy
41. Organization of individuals with similar policy goals who enter the political process to influence legislation that affects the organizations interests
Privacy Act
Interest Groups
National Committee
1st Amendment
42. Judges in Legislative Courts serve _______ terms and do not require impeachment.
Senatorial Courtesy
Baby Boomers
Scottsboro Boys Case
Fixed
43. Early civil rights leader established the Niagara Movement and helped to establish the NAACP.
W.E.B. DuBoise
Supreme Court
Free Exercise of Religion
National Security
44. These parties often emerge as off-shoots of major parties or as single-issue parties. They typically act as critic/innovator bringing attention to issues and influencing the platforms of the major parties.
Delegate
Third Parties
Filibuster
Probable Cause
45. The principle - established by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1819 in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland - that the Constitution must be interpreted flexibly to meet changing conditions.
John F. Kennedy
Flexible Construction
Separation of Powers
Republicans
46. 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 iron triangle.
Liberalism
Focus Groups
Sub-government
Government
47. 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.
Reserved Powers
Federalist Papers
Trustee
CORE
48. If 10 days remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the law is ___________.
AARP
Enacted
Earl Warren
Transnational Relations
49. The net balance or relationship between total income and total expenditures by the nation in its dealings with the rest of the world - including trade - loans - and investments.
Majority Whip
state legislatures
Balance of Payments
Bicameral
50. Most modern political scientists believe there is ________________ between politics and government.
Riders
Little Difference
Government Corporations
Flexible Construction