How does the U.S. Constitution protect inventors and intellectual property?

Inventors can profit from their inventions

What happened when the doctrine of "separate but equal" was struck down?

Minority children had access to equal educational opportunities

How does the Federal Reserve most directly affect the minimum wages of workers?

By open market operations, the discount rate, and reserve requirements

What's the big difference between a communist and a capitalist economic system?

Capitalism = Little government control; communism = full government control

How does the United States use economic resources to shape U.S. foreign policy?

By imposing sanctions on unfriendly or irresponsible nations

What was the effect of Hernandez v. Texas (1954)?

Mexican Americans have the same civil rights as everyone else

The creation of the internet proves what?

government-assisted research has helped to improve global communication

What was the direct effect of the case Hernandez v. TX?

Mexican Americans were extended the same protections of civil rights laws

What is Judicial Activism?

When judges promote new social policy or to overturn legal precedent.

What is Judicial Restraint?

When judges send cases to legislative and executive branches

What's the difference between fiscal policy and monetary policy?

fiscal =taxation & spending; monetary = interest rates and supply of money

How did Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) affect institutions of higher learning?

Colleges can use race as a factor when deciding admissions

What did the case Grutter v. Bollinger do college admissions?

Confirmed the use of race by colleges as a factor for college admissions

What generally happens when the federal government funds space technology research with private companies?

improved personal, military, and commercial navigation and communication

What was the effect of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

All people regardless of race became equal under the law

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1
How does the U.S. Constitution protect inventors and intellectual property?
Inventors can profit from their inventions
The government can confiscate anything above 1.21 gigawatts
Manufacturers can move production overseas
Businesses can use any invention to earn profit
2
What happened when the doctrine of "separate but equal" was struck down?
Everybody stopped going to school to have daily bounce house parties
More exclusively Black colleges and public schools were created
Minority children had access to equal educational opportunities
It overturned the Voting Rights act of 1874
3
How does the Federal Reserve most directly affect the minimum wages of workers?
By supplying money to the economy
By open market operations, the discount rate, and reserve requirements
by collecting taxes
by luring people into the rat race of life
4
What generally drives the federal budget?
taxation without representation
regulatory disengagement
Baby, you can drive my car! Beep-beep, beep-beep, yeah!
monetary policies
5
What's the big difference between a communist and a capitalist economic system?
communism = constant growth; capitalism = constant loss
In communist Russia, government controls you!
capitalism = full government control; communism = little government control
Capitalism = Little government control; communism = full government control
6
The fact that candidates for public office are more racially and ethnically diverse is a result of:
The Charter of the United Federation of Planets
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 2021
The Civil Rights Act of 1832
7
How does the United States use economic resources to shape U.S. foreign policy?
Basically they just look at a Magic 8 Ball and hope for the best.
By refusing cooperation on military exercises with nations
By imposing sanctions on unfriendly or irresponsible nations
By providing health care workers to less developed nations
8
What was the effect of Hernandez v. Texas (1954)?
Mexican Americans have the same civil rights as everyone else
The Supreme Court learned that their exes did, in fact, live in Texas
Mexican Americans could not run as candidates in any federal elections
Mexican Americans were recognized as having the right to vote
9
The creation of the internet proves what?
government-assisted research has helped to improve global communication
space technology transferred to use in everyday life
a single entrepreneur monopolized a new industry
Netflix and Hulu have taken over the world!
10
More government control means more:
policy policies
taxation
fun, fun, fun, until Daddy takes the T-Bird away!
regulatory policies
11
What was the direct effect of the case Hernandez v. TX?
Texas maintained its current laws
The supreme court influenced law making
Mexican Americans were extended the same protections of civil rights laws
Hernandez won his own rights
12
What legislation gave the federal government more power to enforce civil rights laws
The Voting Rights Act of 1962
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Acting for Acting Act of 2164
The Civil Rights Law of 1732
13
How does the government collect money from businesses and citizens?
through regulatory policies
mostly a lot of bake sales
through budget policies
through taxation
14
What is Judicial Activism?
When judges use their power to overturn a policy that is constitutional.
When judges promote the constitutionality of a law or legal precedent.
When judges promote new social policy or to overturn legal precedent.
When judges use their power to kick people off the treadmill
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How does the U.S. government keep the free enterprise system free?
nationalizing infrastructure projects
by breaking up monopolies
Free Enterprise!
operating public utilities
16
What is Judicial Restraint?
When judges use their power to resist daily courtroom food fights
When judges promote the constitutionality of a law or legal precedent
When judges promote new social policy or to overturn legal precedent
When judges send cases to legislative and executive branches
17
What's the difference between fiscal policy and monetary policy?
"Physical" = Olivia Newton John; "Money" = Pink Floyd
monetary = taxing and spending; fiscal = money supply and taxation
fiscal = Federal Reserve; monetary = congress
fiscal =taxation & spending; monetary = interest rates and supply of money
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How did Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) affect institutions of higher learning?
It required equal funding for women's sports
It required "YMCA" to be sung at all sporting events
Colleges can use race as a factor when deciding admissions
It required colleges to admit an equal number of men and women.
19
A country's economy will expand or contract based on:
The country's political policies
The country's annual policies
The country's fiscal policies
the amount of wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood
20
What did the case Grutter v. Bollinger do college admissions?
Put quotas on how many students could participate in a religious membership
Took race off the table as a factor for college addmissions
Required all funding for womens sport and programs be equalized
Confirmed the use of race by colleges as a factor for college admissions
21
What generally happens when the federal government funds space technology research with private companies?
improved personal, military, and commercial navigation and communication
A new space race with third world countries
Lower health insurance costs
We get a space militia that travels the galaxy looking for the universe
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What was the effect of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The country acted out a interpretive dance
All people regardless of race became equal under the law
LBJ became famous
Separate but equal was upheld

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