Final Exam Review - US Gov't 21F

The ______ ruling allows corporations & other businesses to contribute money to PACs to influence elections.

"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged...on account of sex" is in the Constitution.

Black veteran soldiers were key to the early Civil Rights Movement. What point was central to their experience?

President ________ in 1828 drastically changed the hiring process of federal employees in his "spoils system".

A president has the ability to issue ______, whereby a convict’s sentence is reduced but the conviction remains.

___________: A voter's psychological attachment to a political party or politician. It largely explains how many vote.

Which limitation on court decisions says courts cannot rule on theoretical, hypothetical, or rhetorical questions?

The Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.) has never been ratified. Key to halting the ERA was the activism of _______.

In 1968, Alabama Governor George Wallace formed the _____Party to support segregation. He got almost 10 million votes.

The Iowa _____ starts the presidential election process. It is a unique, public system of deciding primary delegates.

Some states require over 50% of the vote to win. Therefore, often a _____ election is held between the top-two.

Which limitation on court decisions says you must personally have been harmed to bring a case?

_______ is illegal literary, written defamation.

_______ is lowest of the tiers in the US judiciary. There are 94 of them. Each serves no more than 1 whole state.

_____ explains that, since the US uses a single-member district system, there will only be 2 major parties at a time.

The 3rd wave of LGBTQ+ rights (80s-90s) was also transformed by the brutal murder of _____, a gay college student.

Jefferson's supporters in 1796 created the ______ party to favor states' rights & weaker national government.

The SECOND great American political realignment started with FDR in WW2 when the _______Party was dominant.

Which of the four necessities of a successful social movement refers to a central issue to rally the movement behind?

The 3rd wave of LGBTQ+ rights (80s-90s) was transformed by two key events. One event was the outbreak of ________.

Key to the current women's liberation political movement is the _____ movement to end sexual violence.

A _____ decision by a Supreme Court justice explains why they think the winning opinion is wrong.

________ is the media’s ability to shape your feelings towards a policy, politician, or the government.

Which of these milestones of the LGBTQ+ Movement was the foundation of modern PRIDE parades?

________ representation is the extent to which politicians support bills that would benefit their constituents.

Which of these was NOT part of the "Ain't I a Woman?" speech?

The media’s ability to shape how viewers interpret political events and issues is known as _____.

Anti-slavery politicians (Whigs, Northerns Democrats, free Blacks, etc.) united in the 1850s to form the ______ Party.

Redrawing legislative district boundaries to favor one political party is known as...

The ___ Amendment since 1804 has made the President and VP elected as a single-party "ticket" of running mates.

________ in 1851 famously delivered the "Ain't I a Woman?" speech highlighting both sexism and racism.

Which term often describes someone whose gender identity is neither masculine nor feminine?

Supreme Court Justices are nominated by __________ and then confirmed by __________.

_______ is the most recently added new Supreme Court Justice.

The attitudes, beliefs, & values that undergird or are at the foundation of a political system is its _____.

_______ is the view that courts should interpret the Constitution to reflect the values of modern times.

_______ is the view that courts should interpret the Constitution only according to the authors' meanings of it.

It is harder to pass laws during _______, when the president, House, & Senate are controlled by different parties.

The Emancipation Proclamation called for freedom of enslaved people ...

_______ is middle of the tiers in the US judiciary. There are 13 of them. Each serves a specific collection of states.

Which includes: "...I must confess...I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate..."?

The biggest reason most social movements decline or fail is ______, or the movement breaking into competing groups.

In 1948, South Carolina Governor ________ formed the States' Rights Party to oppose the end of segregation.

________ representation is about how a politician's characteristics (race, age, gender, etc.) reflect their district.

Which limitation on court decisions says judges should try to follow previous cases when ruling on new cases?

The first Black person on the Supreme Court was _____, who also famously argued Brown v. Board as an attorney.

The process by which people form political beliefs (often influenced by parents & others) is called __________.

"Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation FOREVER!" was famously roared by ______ to great political success.

In the US Senate, it takes 60 votes to reach ________, which formally ends a filibuster.

Since the 1970s, America is in a political _______ with 2 equally competitive parties switching power back and forth.

Andrew Jackson was furious he lost the 1824 election. To challenge the system, he created the _________ Party in 1828.

The ___________ provision in the 1st Amendment allows people to practice their religion freely, but there are limits.

Pearl Harbor, WW2, Depression, atom bomb, etc. made the "modern presidency" emerge in the term of...

It takes ______ electoral votes today to win a US presidential election.

_____ partisanship: "Vote for me! I'll do a good job!" _____ partisanship: "Don't let her win! She's awful!"

_______ is illegal spoken, verbal defamation.

The earliest LGBTQ+ rights (pre-1950s) movement was ________, focusing on how LGBTQ+ people could be model citizens.

_______ is the court's power to overturn a law it deems to be unconstitutional.

The 1857 case _____ validated denying Black people US citizenship rights pre-Civil War.

President Garfield reformed the patronage system and used merit instead. Garfield was then assassinated by...

In the US, general elections always occur on ________ in November.

Developed by Henry Clay in the 1830s to oppose Jackson, the ____ Party no longer exists.

The 2nd wave of LGBTQ+ rights (60s-80s) was ________, focusing on visibility & freedom for LGBTQ+ people.

The FIRST great American political realignment was after the Civil War when the _______Party was dominant.

Adams' supporters in 1796 created the ______ party to favor centralized power & emboldened national government.