American National Government Exam Bank
Course Introduction
American National Government offers an in-depth exploration of the United States political system, examining the structure, functions, and processes of the federal government. The course covers foundational principles such as the Constitution, federalism, and the separation of powers, and analyzes the roles of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Students will also investigate the influence of political parties, interest groups, public opinion, and the media on policy-making. Through discussion of contemporary issues, the course provides insight into the dynamics of American democracy and citizenship.
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American Government and Politics Today The Essentials 17th Edition by Barbara
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A. Bardes
Chapter 1: The Democratic Republic
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Q1) A political culture is a
A) written set of codes that dictate political action.
B) process that transmits value to immigrants and children..
C) major problem for rulers of stable forms of government.
D) patterned set of ideas, values, and ways of thinking about government and politics.
E) manifestation of pluralism.
Answer: D
Q2) The following statement would be compatible with __________ ideology. "The government should only provide security and an environment conducive to capitalism."
A) liberal
B) conservative
C) communist
D) socialist
E) libertarian
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: The Constitution
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Q1) Ratification of the Constitution required the
A) approval of the thirteen state legislatures.
B) approval by nine out of thirteen state conventions.
C) approval of the thirteen state legislatures and two-thirds of Congress.
D) approval by popular vote in nine states.
E) None of the above is true.
Answer: B
Q2) The voting age of eighteen was set by A) Congress.
B) the Twenty-sixth Amendment.
C) the Nineteenth Amendment.
D) the Supreme Court.
E) the states.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Federalism
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Q1) The United States Supreme Court
A) has the final say on constitutional issues.
B) plays a significant role in determining the line between federal and state powers.
C) has given increased emphasis to state powers under the Tenth Amendment.
D) All of the above are true.
E) None of the above is true.
Answer: D
Q2) Outcomes of the Civil War included
A) a dramatic increase in the federal budget.
B) the implementation of the first income tax on citizens.
C) the end of slavery.
D) new amendments to the Constitution that allowed African American males the right to vote.
E) All of the above are true.
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: Civil Liberties
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Q1) The Patriot Act, which strengthened the government's investigatory powers,
A) is the most significant antiterrorism legislation in the United States.
B) bans the government from opening a suspect's mail.
C) includes warrantless surveillance, which has strong public support.
D) was designed to fight organized crime.
E) was designed to create territorial barriers between government agencies to protect secrecy.
Q2) What are the Miranda rights? What exceptions have been allowed to these rights?
Q3) The exclusionary rule is a policy
A) forbidding the admission of illegally seized evidence at trial.
B) that prohibits the arresting officer from serving as a character witness at a hearing or trial.
C) that prohibits the detention of a suspect for more than forty-eight hours without the suspect being charged.
D) limited to the federal courts.
E) None of the above is true.
Q4) Explain what symbolic speech is and give examples of Supreme Court decisions on this type of speech.
Q5) Explain the positions of those for and those against the Patriot Act.
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Chapter 5: Civil Rights
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Q1) Which of the following is true about women's rights?
A) The struggle for women's rights first began in earnest at a convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848.
B) Women's voting rights are found in the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
C) Women's suffrage is the right to equal pay for equal work.
D) Options A and B are true.
E) All of the above are true.
Q2) Today, there are approximately __________ unauthorized immigrants living in the United States.
A) 11 million
B) 111 million
C) 200 million
D) 1 million
E) 35 million
Q3) How have courts and legislative bodies at both the federal and state level attempted to address issues concerning the rights and status of homosexuals?
Q4) Explain the difference between de jure and de facto segregation. Provide examples of each in practice,
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Chapter 6: Public Opinion and Political Socialization
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Q1) Having a college education
A) no longer means that an individual is likely to vote for a particular party.
B) is associated with a greater tendency to vote Democratic.
C) is associated with a greater tendency to vote Republican.
D) is associated with opposition to cultural liberalism.
E) is associated with a greater tendency to abstain from voting.
Q2) African Americans today tend to be
A) more conservative than whites on all issues.
B) less liberal than whites on all issues.
C) supportive of the Republican party.
D) somewhat conservative on certain cultural issues such as gay marriage and abortion.
E) Independents and not supportive of either Republicans or Democrats.
Q3) Determining which public policy questions will be debated or considered is known as A) consensus building.
B) opinion leadership.
C) public opinion.
D) agenda setting.
E) political socialization.
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Chapter 7: Interest Groups
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Q1) Social movements,
A) are spawned most often by political parties or those in society with formal representation.
B) may be the authentic voice of the weak or oppressed in society.
C) are generally organized by a single powerful interest group.
D) generally last for five to ten years.
E) All of the above are true.
Q2) Since 1960, the greatest growth in unionization has occurred among
A) military personnel.
B) professional athletes.
C) public employees.
D) private sector employees.
E) information technology employees.
Q3) Interest groups
A) have equal resources to influence legislation.
B) possess different combinations of resources to use in the policymaking process.
C) always begin as social movements.
D) are always comprised of members who have high social status.
E) All of the above are true.
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Chapter 8: Political Parties
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Q1) All of the following statements about the early Republican Party are true \(\bold{except}\)
A) it was initially led by Thomas Jefferson.
B) it supported a strong, more active central government.
C) it was supported by artisans and farmers.
D) it supported states' rights.
E) in office, its members acquired Louisiana and established a national bank.
Q2) Tipping takes place
A) when a substantial group of voters switches party allegiance.
B) when increasing numbers of voters call themselves "independents."
C) when a group that is becoming more numerous over time grows large enough to change the political balance in a state.
D) as a result of immigration or differential birth rates.
E) only in countries that employ a multiparty system.
Q3) A voter or a candidate who does not identify with a political party is called
A) a naysayer.
B) an independent.
C) a liberal.
D) a conservative.
E) a libertarian.
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Chapter 9: Campaigns, Elections, and the Media
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Q1) The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002
A) bans soft money contributions to national parties.
B) bans campaign ads by special interest groups.
C) bans independent expenditures.
D) bans the practice of lobbying.
E) eliminated the Federal Election Commission.
Q2) All of following are true \(\bold{except}\)
A) today's campaigns are centered on the candidate rather than on the party.
B) the goal of a campaign is to convince voters to choose the party's candidate.
C) to run a successful campaign the candidate's organization must be able to raise funds, produce political commercials, and get voters to the polls.
D) campaigns are concerned with getting the support of their party members, but not too concerned with independent voters.
E) campaigns no longer depend on parties because fewer people identify with political parties.
Q3) Explore the strategies devised by interest groups and parties to get around campaign finance reform legislation.
Q4) Which people are least likely to vote? How does this affect government policies?
Q5) How has the right to vote been expanded since the Constitution was written?
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Chapter 10: The Congress
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Q1) The president of the Senate is
A) an honorary position held by the most senior member of the majority party.
B) the vice president of the United States.
C) third in line to succeed the president.
D) selected by party leaders in the Senate.
E) the president of the United States.
Q2) A temporary legislative committee established for a limited time period and for a special purpose is a
A) joint committee.
B) conference committee.
C) standing committee.
D) select committee.
E) rules committee.
Q3) Explain the roles played by the members of the House and Senate leadership.
Q4) All of the following are true of the Senate \(\bold{except}\)
A) the Senate has a tradition of unlimited debate as a blocking tactic.
B) the Senate can end debate by invoking cloture.
C) the Senate cannot pass budget bills without first allowing a filibuster.
D) the Senate can circumvent a filibuster by using reconciliation.
E) the Senate use of filibuster has expanded.
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Chapter 11: The President
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Q1) An executive order
A) must be published in the Federal Register.
B) is not valid unless both chambers of Congress approve it.
C) must be approved by a majority of the cabinet.
D) can only be issued when Congress is not in session.
E) cannot be overturned by Congress.
Q2) Which of the following statements is true?
A) The founders created the electoral college to allow voters to directly elect the U.S. president.
B) In a parliamentary system, the voters directly elect a prime minister, premier, or chancellor as the chief executive.
C) In a parliamentary system, the executive and the majority in the legislature must be of the same party or a coalition of parties.
D) Much of the time, the majority in the U.S. Congress and the president have been from the same party.
E) Most European nations have electoral college systems similar to the United States.
Q3) Discuss the role of the president as chief executive focusing on the appointment power.
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Chapter 12: The Bureaucracy
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Q1) The percentage of the total U.S. workforce that is employed by local, state, and federal governments is
A) 10 percent.
B) 25 percent.
C) 16 percent.
D) 50 percent.
E) 6 percent.
Q2) The spoils system is sometimes called
A) nepotism.
B) political capital.
C) patronage.
D) the civil service.
E) the Pendleton system.
Q3) Which of the following is true of political appointees?
A) The president makes political appointments to most of the top jobs in the federal bureaucracy.
B) Ambassadors to foreign countries are political appointees.
C) Their powers are often exaggerated.
D) Most have little background for their positions and may be mere figureheads
E) All of the above are true.
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Chapter 13: The Courts
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Q1) The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act that created an alien removal court, was passed
A) in 1996 as a response to the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City.
B) in 2001 as a response to the 911 attacks in New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania.
C) in 2010 as a solution to dealing with prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
D) in 2000 as a response to the attack of the naval ship, the USS Cole.
E) in 1993 as a response to the first attack on the World Trade Center in New York.
Q2) The FISA court can
A) issue warrants without revealing the information used to justify the warrant.
B) deprive American citizens of their citizenship.
C) rule laws enacted by Congress to be unconstitutional.
D) strike certain provisions from the Constitution.
E) direct the president to take certain actions in order to protect national security.
Q3) Is it legitimate that the United States Supreme Court possesses the power of judicial review? Why, or why not?
Q4) How do recent Supreme Court decisions show how the Court has moved rightward?
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Chapter 14: Domestic and Economic Policy
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Q1) In regard to adopting a health-care reform policy, President Obama
A) was against any form of major health-care reform.
B) delegated the drafting of a health-care plan to Congress.
C) took the lead in developing the health-care plan as Presidents Bush and Clinton had.
D) eliminated a tug-of-war between the executive branch and Congress.
E) Both options B and D are true.
Q2) Despite the lack of federal government action, in 2011
A) CO2 emissions in the United States were down due to newer fuel-efficient cars.
B) CO2 emissions in the United States were down due to new power plants coming on line that used natural gas instead of coal.
C) CO2 emissions in the United States were down due to tougher emissions laws passed by states.
D) CO2 emissions in the United States were down due to a colder winter.
E) Options A and B are true.
Q3) Explain the stages of the policymaking process.
Q4) Explain the impact of Keynesian economics on fiscal policy in the United States.
Q5) Explain the problem of long-term unemployment and the affect on government spending.
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Chapter 15: Foreign Policy
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Q1) A majority of the population of Iraq is
A) Sunni Arab.
B) Kurdish.
C) Shiite Arab.
D) Turkoman.
E) Baathist.
Q2) In what ways has the United States offered humanitarian assistance in different parts of the world?
Q3) During the Cold War, there was (were)
A) continuous conversation between United States and Soviet military advisors.
B) no direct military conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union.
C) an occasional exchange of artillery fire across the East German/West German border.
D) direct fighting between United States and Soviet ground troops during the Korean War.
E) occasional dogfights between United States and Soviet fighter planes over Europe.
Q4) Describe U.S. efforts to handle international issues with diplomacy rather than armed force. In your examples, were these efforts largely successful or failures?
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