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12th Grade
12/12/2011

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Term

Reason Captain Shays rebelled.

Definition

To protest taxes and

Farm foreclosures.

Term

Occupation of Shays’s

rebels

Definition

farmers

Term

Rebellion showed weakness of which agreement Between the states.

Definition

Articles of Confederation

Term

Rebellion reinforced fears Among this group of Americans.

Definition

Political leaders in each Of the states.

Term

Rebellion pointed out the dangers

Of _______________ rule.

Definition

Majority rule/Mob rule

Term

Revolution was first fought

to preserve former colonists

______________ rights

Under English law.

Definition

“traditional” rights

Term

In the “Declaration…” by T.

Jefferson; you can revolt if the

Government fails to protect

These “things”.

Definition
The rights of the people
Term

“all men are created equal” did

NOT  immediately end this

“peculiar institution”.

Definition

Slavery

Term

This doctrine is based on popular

Consent, limited government, and

Preventing majority tyranny.

Definition

“republicanism” J

Term

The Founders feared that

Popular sovereignty would

Lead to this……..

Definition

Majority tyranny L

Term

If the Electoral College ties in

A vote, who chooses the

President?

Definition

The House of Representatives

Term

If powers are divided between

States and the National govern-

ments, that is a ______ system!

Definition

“federal” system

Term

Each branch of National Govt

Acts as a “brake” on the other

Two branches.  The term is…

Definition

“checks and balances”

Term

Your unalienable right to acquire, Use, and transfer __________ is Protected in Constitution.

Definition
“property” J
Term

Forbidding a state from taxing Other states exports broke down _____________ to interstate trade.

Definition

“barriers” to interstate trade.

Term

Clause requiring a state to Honor the legal decisions of Another state…………..

Definition

Full faith and credit clause

Term

Clause declaring Constitution To be the “highest” law of The land……………………

Definition

Supremacy clause, of course…

Term

Money, given to the states For a purpose set by the Feds; is called a ________.

Definition

A grant-in-aid.

Term

This steamboat case gave the Federal Gov’t. power through The Commerce clause……..

Definition

Gibbons v. Ogden

Term

C. J. Marshall said this gov’t

Body determines what the

“fundamental” law is……..

Definition

The Federal Courts.

Term

The States Rights position Gained its strength from This clause……………..

Definition

“reserved powers” clause, or “reservation” clause, aka the Tenth Amendment.

Term

The first “due process” clause Is in the Bill of Rights, and the Second is in the ___________

Amendment!!

Definition

Fourteenth (14thAmendment.

Term

The “wall of separation” Comes from which clause?

Definition

The Establishment Clause.

Term

What “rule” forbids the use In a trial of unjustly gotten Evidence?

Definition

The “exclusionary rule”

Term

There is a rule police must Follow during an arrest: what Is that rule called, and what Rights does it protect?

Definition

Your “Miranda” rule protects Your right to remain silent, And your right to counsel. J

Term

The “due process” amendments (4th, 5th6th, & 8th) are largely about protecting Whom?

Definition

Those accused of crimes! L

Term

Burning the American Flag Or wearing a political button Are examples of this………

Definition

Symbolic speech

Term

Government censoring of Materials before it is Published is called……..

Definition

Prior restraint

Term

Obtaining evidence without A search warrant is called…

Definition

Unreasonable search and Seizure.

Term

This doctrine is the piece By piece application of the Bill of Rights to the states.

Definition

Incorporation or Selective incorporation

Term

Selective incorporation relies

On the application of which

amendment?

Definition

14th Amendment

Term

Regents of U. of California v. Bakke dealt with this issue.

Definition

Affirmative Action

Term

Which amendment forbids

States from denying to persons

“equal protection of the laws”?

Definition

14th Amendment

Term

Brown v. Board of Ed.

overturned this earlier case.

Definition

Plessy v. Ferguson.

Term

Which amendment permitted

Suffrage to Women?

Definition

19th Amendment.

Term

A policy that gives special

Attention to a previously

Disadvantaged group.

Definition

Affirmative Action.

Term

The reality of school

Segregation in areas that

Are racially segregated.

Definition

“de facto” segregation.

Term

What year was  the Equal

Rights Amendment

Ratified?

Definition

The Equal Rights

Amendment was NOT

Ratified at the National

Level.

Term

Define “party out of power”.

Definition

The minority party in

Government.

Term

A party’s endorsement of

A candidate for office is

Called ………………….

Definition

Nomination.

Term

The legal doctrine depriving

Married women of an identity

Separate from their husbands.

Definition

CovertureL

Term

The “institution” that ties

The voter to the politician.

Definition

A “linkage institution”.

Term

Which group is most

Likely to engage in

Ticket-splitting?

Definition

“independents”

Term

A job given for political

Reasons rather than for

Merit is called________.

Definition

Patronage.

Term

A type of primary that

Encourages party loyalty.

Definition

A “closed” primary.

Term

People gradually moving

Away from both major

Parties is called _______.

Definition

Dealignment.

Term

What was the Federal

Communications

Commission created to do?

Definition

To regulate use of the

Airwaves.

Term

This decade marked the end

Of the “cozy” relationship

Between press and politician.

Definition

The 1970’s.

Term

There is attitude of _______

By many reporters toward

the Government.

Definition

“cynicism”

Term

This president was the first

To use “broadcast media”.

Definition

Franklin Roosevelt.

Term

Which “yellow rose” state

Did pass its own Equal

Rights Amendment?

Definition

Texas!!!!  J

Term

In 1964 with this law of Congress, Federal

Aid was prohibited to schools which

Remained racially segregated……………

Definition

Civil Rights Act of 1964

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