AP Govt Ch3 Federalism 3
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- Q1The doctrine of dual federalism maintains that __________the national government should initiate policies and then turn them over to the states for administrationthe national government and the states have authority over defined and mutually exclusive policy areasthe national government and the states should share authority equal in all policy areasconflicts between the authority of the national government and the states should be resolved by the Supreme Court30s
- Q2During the Civil War era, the Supreme Court ____________was a major influence on the great issues of the daywas on the losing side of the impending conflictdeclared unconstitutional the attempt by Congress to restrict its jurisdictionruled that the initial plan of Congress to reconstruct the South was unconstitutional30s
- Q3The era of dual federalism ____________featured a decision of the US Supreme Court the upheld legislation that outlawed child laborrepresented a period in which the power of the federal government greatly overshadowed the power of the stateswas at its zenith when President Hayes ordered federal troops to remain in the South for at least two more decadescame to an end as the American people looked to the federal government to address the problems created by the Great Depression30s
- Q4President Roosevelt's "New Deal" included __________a hands-off approach to regulating labor relationsopen competition among businesses to improve the economya laissez-faire plan to address unemployment and poverty issueslarge-scale emergency antipoverty programs30s
- Q5What happened in 1937 that prompted the Supreme Court to cease its attempts to limit the power of the national government under the commerce clause?Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and all parts of the government rallied around the president and his policy decisionsCongress enacted legislation limiting the Supreme Court's jurisdictionThree members of the Supreme Court were killed in a train accident and Franklin Roosevelt was able to replace them with judges who were loyal to his policiesFranklin Roosevelt proposed legisltationallowing him to appoint six additional members to the Supreme Court, sending a clear message that the Supreme Court shouldn't stand in his way any longer30s
- Q6The Theory that the states and the national government could work together in solving the nation's problems is known as _________ federalismcollaborativedualdistinctivecooperative30s
- Q7Aid to Families with Dependent Children (now known as Memory Assistance to Needy Families) was an example of _______ federalismcollaborativedualdistinctivecooperative30s
- Q8One of the earliest examples of cooperative federalism is the national government __________transferring much of its military power to state militiasproviding land grants to the states to finance educationrequiring the states to lower the drinking age to 21allowing states to borrow money at low interest rates to improve prisons30s
- Q9Federal grants to state or local governments that are for specific programs or projects are known as _________categorical grantsblock grantsfederal mandatesrevenue sharing30s
- Q10In the 1980s and 1990s, the federal government provided funds to states for highway improvement based on the condition that states would __________raise the minimum drinking age to 21lower the speed limits in their jurisdictionslower the minimum drinking age to 18raise the speed limits in their jurisdictions30s
- Q11Block grants consist of federal aid to state or local governments that is _________divided into discrete "blocks' of grants, each limited to $100 milliontied to federal mandates that states or local government must then implementto be spent on a policy area decided on by the state or local governmentto be spent within a specified policy area, though the receiving state or local government can decide how to spend within that area30s
- Q12Federal legislation that requires states to improve school accountability or air and water quality in order to receive federal funds are often tied to __________block grantscategorical grantsrevenue sharingfederal mandates30s
- Q13Two examples, from Lyndon Johnson's administration, that illustrate the power of the national government to change society are ___________due process and the Vietnam Warcivil rights legislation and the War on Povertystrengthening rights of the accused and abolition of the death penaltythe establishment of religious communities and the War on Drugs30s
- Q14When the performance and policy preferences of the national and state governments are examined throughout the twentieth century, it is seen that __________Lyndon Johnson oversaw the greatest expansion of national authority since the New Dealthe states, rather than the national government, have been used to achieve unprecedented levels of government intervention in the economythe status quo is rally altered through actions by the states, not the national governmentthe states have been used to bring about major change in social policy much more so than the national government30s
- Q15An ideological theme under new federalism that supports the idea of transferring power from the national government to sate and local governments is known as __________retributiondevolutionrestitutionevolution30s