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American Government - Your Voice, Your Future | Matthew Kerbel
American Revolution & Early Years of the Republic | APUSH Period 3 | AP US History
Conservative
Moderate
Liberal
Radical
Status Quo, less Gov.
Mid-Ground
Peaceful gradual change, reject violent revolution
Far Left, Resorts to extreme methods to bring about change.
Conservative
Status Quo, less Gov.
Moderate
Mid-Ground
Conservative
Moderate
Liberal
Radical
Status Quo, less Gov.
Mid-Ground
Peaceful gradual change, reject violent revolution
Far Left, Resorts to extreme methods to bring about change.
Conservative
Status Quo, less Gov.
Moderate
Mid-Ground
Paige_Burkholder5TEACHER
Elite-Class Theory
Pluralist Theory
Articles of Confederation
Shays' rebellion
A belief that certain groups hold disproportionate power in a…
A theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics…
1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executiv…
Rebellion led by farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787…
Elite-Class Theory
A belief that certain groups hold disproportionate power in a…
Pluralist Theory
A theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics…
Unalienable
Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
Shays' Rebellion
A human right based on nature or God
The first constitution of the United States, adopted by Congre…
A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitu…
a series of attacks on courthouses by a small band of farmers…
Unalienable
A human right based on nature or God
Articles of Confederation
The first constitution of the United States, adopted by Congre…
incumbents
casework/ constituent services
pork barrel
bicameral legislature
those individuals who already hold office who are running for…
activities of members of congress that help constituents as in…
federal projects, grants, and contracts available to state and…
a legislature divided into houses. congress and all state legi…
incumbents
those individuals who already hold office who are running for…
casework/ constituent services
activities of members of congress that help constituents as in…
Government
Public Goods
Single Issue Group
Linkage Institutions
The institutions and processes through which public policies a…
Goods, Like Clean Air, that every one must share.
Groups that have a narrow interest, dislike compromise, and dr…
Political channels through which people's concerns become poli…
Government
The institutions and processes through which public policies a…
Public Goods
Goods, Like Clean Air, that every one must share.
Articles of Confederation
Shays' rebellion
Checks and Balances
Separation of powers
1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executiv…
Rebellion led by farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787…
A system that allows each branch of government to limit the po…
A way of dividing the power of government among the legislativ…
Articles of Confederation
1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executiv…
Shays' rebellion
Rebellion led by farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787…
Government
Public Goods
Single Issue Group
Linkage Institutions
The institutions and processes through which public policies a…
Goods, Like Clean Air, that every one must share.
Groups that have a narrow interest, dislike compromise, and dr…
Political channels through which people's concerns become poli…
Government
The institutions and processes through which public policies a…
Public Goods
Goods, Like Clean Air, that every one must share.
10th Amendment
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Powers not expressly given to federal government by the Consti…
Abolished slavery. First of three "Reconstruction Amendments"…
(1) All persons born in the U.S. are citizens; (2) no person c…
States cannot deny any person the right to vote because of rac…
10th Amendment
Powers not expressly given to federal government by the Consti…
13th Amendment
Abolished slavery. First of three "Reconstruction Amendments"…
Democracy
Direct democracy
Representative democracy
Constitutional democracy
Government by the people, both directly or indirectly, with fr…
Government in which citizens vote on laws and select officials…
Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass…
A government that enforces recognized limits on those who gove…
Democracy
Government by the people, both directly or indirectly, with fr…
Direct democracy
Government in which citizens vote on laws and select officials…
Government
Public Goods
Single Issue Group
Linkage Institutions
The institutions and processes through which public policies a…
Goods, Like Clean Air, that every one must share.
Groups that have a narrow interest, dislike compromise, and dr…
Political channels through which people's concerns become poli…
Government
The institutions and processes through which public policies a…
Public Goods
Goods, Like Clean Air, that every one must share.
Federalism
"necessary and proper" clause
dual federalism
unitary system
Government authority shared by national and local governments
Section of the Constitution allowing Congress to pass all laws…
Doctrine holding tht the national government is supreme in its…
sovereignty is wholly in the hands of the national government,…
Federalism
Government authority shared by national and local governments
"necessary and proper" clause
Section of the Constitution allowing Congress to pass all laws…
public opinion
demography
census
melting pot
the distribution of the population's beliefs about politics an…
the science of population changes.
a valuable tool for understanding demographic changes. The Con…
the mixing of cultures, ideas, and peoples that has changed th…
public opinion
the distribution of the population's beliefs about politics an…
demography
the science of population changes.
unitary system
Confederation
Federalism
Intergovernmental Relations
a way of organizing a nation so that all power resides in the…
System where the central government is weak and most all power…
a way of organizing a nation so that two or more levels of gov…
The entire set of the interactions among national, state, and…
unitary system
a way of organizing a nation so that all power resides in the…
Confederation
System where the central government is weak and most all power…
civil liberties
Bill of Rights
First Amendment
Barron v. Baltimore
The legal constitutional protections against government. Altho…
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which defin…
The constitutional amendment that establishes the four great l…
The 1833 Supreme Court Decision holding that the Bill of Right…
civil liberties
The legal constitutional protections against government. Altho…
Bill of Rights
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which defin…
Civil Rights
Fourteenth Amendment
Equal Protection of the Laws
Scott v. Stanford
Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discr…
made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" ci…
part of the fourteenth amendment emphasizing that the laws mus…
1857: supreme court case in which an ex-slave sued for his fre…
Civil Rights
Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discr…
Fourteenth Amendment
made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" ci…
Constitution
Natural Rights
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
a set of principles, either written or unwritten, that makes u…
rights of all human beings that are ordained by God, discovera…
a document written in 1776 declaring the colonists' intention…
the government charter of the states from 1776 until the Const…
Constitution
a set of principles, either written or unwritten, that makes u…
Natural Rights
rights of all human beings that are ordained by God, discovera…
devolution
block grants
Sovereignty
unitary system
the transfer of powers and responsibilities from the federal g…
Money from the national government that states can spend withi…
supreme or ultimate political authority
sovereignty is in the hands of the national government
devolution
the transfer of powers and responsibilities from the federal g…
block grants
Money from the national government that states can spend withi…
Filibuster
Cloture rule
"Markup"
Veto override
An attempt to defeat a bill in the Senate by talking indefinit…
A rule used by the Senate to end or limit debate. ... Example:…
Process in which a committee or subcommittee considers and rev…
If the President vetoes a bill, goes back to the house it star…
Filibuster
An attempt to defeat a bill in the Senate by talking indefinit…
Cloture rule
A rule used by the Senate to end or limit debate. ... Example:…
interest group
pluralist theory
elite theory
hyperpluralist
an organization of people with shared policy goals entering th…
a theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics…
a theory of government and politics contending that societies…
a theory of government and politics contending that groups are…
interest group
an organization of people with shared policy goals entering th…
pluralist theory
a theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics…
traditional democratic theory
pluralism
hyperpluralsim
elite and class theory
rests upon a number of key principles that specify how governm…
a theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics…
wider variety of interest groups (too many) - many unequal pow…
small number of interest group that has influence controlled b…
traditional democratic theory
rests upon a number of key principles that specify how governm…
pluralism
a theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics…
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Articles of Confederation
Shays' rebellion
Checks and Balances
Separation of powers
1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executiv…
Rebellion led by farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787…
A system that allows each branch of government to limit the po…
A way of dividing the power of government among the legislativ…
Articles of Confederation
1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executiv…
Shays' rebellion
Rebellion led by farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787…
party competition
political party
linkage institutions
rational-choice theory
the battle of the parties for control of public offices
"a tea of men (and women) seeking to control the governing app…
the channels through which people's concerns become political…
a popular theory in political science to explain the actions o…
party competition
the battle of the parties for control of public offices
political party
"a tea of men (and women) seeking to control the governing app…
nomination
campaign strategy
national party convention
caucus
the official endorsement of a candidate for office by a politi…
the master game plan candidates lay out to guide their elector…
meets every four years to nominate the party's presidential an…
a meeting of all the state party leaders for selecting delegat…
nomination
the official endorsement of a candidate for office by a politi…
campaign strategy
the master game plan candidates lay out to guide their elector…
Twenty-second amendment
Twenty-fifth amendment
Impeachment
Watergate
Passed in 1951, the amendment that limits presidents to two te…
Passed in 1951, this amendment permits the vice president to b…
Political equivalent of an indictment in criminal law, prescri…
The events and scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democrati…
Twenty-second amendment
Passed in 1951, the amendment that limits presidents to two te…
Twenty-fifth amendment
Passed in 1951, this amendment permits the vice president to b…