American Government MCQ Questions Answers

1. ________ elections tend to draw the largest percentage of voters in the u.s.

2. ___ refers to a system under which the winning candidate receives all the delegates for that state.

3. Vamos a ver ____. vamos a ir al teatro.

4. Equality of result policies are primarily directed at ________ discriminatory effects.

5. The governor of Texas can be removed from office by

6. Redistricting happens after the census, which is conducted every ________ years.

7. Proponents of _____ policy argue that states are more responsive to citizen needs and desires.

8. Prisoners who are challenging their convictions are most likely to seek a writ of ________.

9. Presidents will often choose federal judges from _____.

10. Presidential approval ratings ________ over a presidents term of office.

11. President theodore roosevelts concept of the bully pulpit was the offices ________.

12. President ________ began the era of greater presidential control over the budgetary process.

13. The citizens of ________ are most likely to participate as campaign volunteers during an election.

14. Over the past several decades, the ________and the ________have benefited most from apportionment.

15. Poverty is a condition that today affects roughly one in ________ americans.

16. The expressed congressional power to borrow money implies that congress may _____.

17. In cases of racial discrimination, the supreme court uses the ____________ test.

18. In the _____ step toward civil rights, a group enters the political arena and demands rights.

19. _____ is system of government by privileged citizens or the upper class.

20. While traditional party conventions were ________, contemporary party conventions are ________.

21. Three types of factors, ______, influence the decisions of voters at the polls.

22. Fbi, irs, fcc, and cia are all abbreviations for _____.

23. ____ cable is the medium least prone to generating errors.

24. The highest rate of inflation (13 percent) since world war ii occurred in ________.

25. The federal reserve plays a large part in establishing ________ policy.

26. All of the following except ________ refused to participate in america's war in iraq in 2003.

27. The left-wing protest party that was formed in 1919 was the _____.

28. Barack obama won ________ electoral votes in 2012.

29. Laws whose actual content defines what we can and cannot legally do are ____ laws.

30. Whites, african americans, latinos, and asian americans hold ________ political views.

31. Vigorous political parties ______ voter turnout.

32. Under the proportional plan to reform the electoral college, each candidate would _____.

33. Two recent periods of large-scale bureaucratic expansion were ________.

34. The three-fifths compromise illustrates the power of ______ at the constitutional convention.

35. The tenth amendment relates to and best demonstrates _____ powers.

36. The supreme court justices began to change their position on racial discrimination in the ________.

37. The rise of national conventions to nominate the president led to the empowerment of ________.

38. The right of privacy ___________ absolute.

39. The requirement for congressional districts to be one, unbroken shape, describes _____.

40. The most significant example of devolution in recent decades has been in the area of ________.

41. The idea that congress can override a presidential veto illustrates the concept of _____.

42. The ________ party originated from internal mobilization.

43. The _____ hold(s) a trial and decide(s) whether to remove an impeached officeholder.

44. The ____ is a candidate running for re-election to a position that he or she already holds.

45. Richard nixon's ____ strategy was aimed at attracting white southerners to the republican party.

46. One of the consequences of two-party government is __________.

47. One argument for a strong federal government is its role in ensuring ________ across states.

48. Obstacles to policy implementation by the bureaucracy include __________.

49. Neither congress nor the states can pass a(n) ____ that inflicts punishment without a court trial.

50. Much of the national news that is published in local newspapers is provided by ________.

51. Most european nations utilize a ________.

52. Most candidates running in a general election tend to move their campaigns toward the __________.

53. Montesquieu called ________ the principle of giving each branch of government its own constituency.

54. The single biggest factor accounting for how people decide to vote is ______.

55. The presidential election campaign fund was created in 1971 to provide _____.

56. The president addresses the nation directly during a __________.

57. The power that requires a yes vote by a simple majority of the senate is _______________.

58. A(n) __________ lays out the partys core beliefs and policy proposals.

59. ________ is a unit of local government that performs a single service in a limited geographic area.

60. In 2015, the supreme court's ruling in obergefell v. hodges made _____ a civil right nationwide.

61. Any legislation involving race, ethnicity, religion, or legal aliens faces _____ scrutiny.

62. ________ is a strategy that attempts to mobilize the widest and most favorable climate of opinion.

63. A temporary party organization _______; a permanent party organization _______.

64. Compared with western europe, the united states has a(n)______ turnout in elections.

65. A system of ___ allocates delegates based on the proportion of the vote a candidate wins.

66. European media policies echo ____________________ stances.

67. The governor's budgetary power is __________.

68. In a totalitarian government, ______.

69. In 2014, there were approximately ________ political action committees (pacs) in the united states.

70. The law enforcement budget at the county level is approved by the ________.

71. Although americans generally tend to dislike ________, they are relatively happy with ________.

72. As children grow into adulthood, their _____ expands to include co-workers and neighbors.

73. According to the text, texas has had ___________ constitutions.

74. Tracking polls help candidates __________.

75. The ultimate authority for enacting new laws lies with _______________.

76. An alternative to a grand jury indictment is __________, which is used for minor offenses.

77. An elected official who votes the way his or her constituents would want is a __________.

78. According to the trustee model of representation, legislators are entrusted to __________.

79. Texas ranks ______ the national average in voter turnout of the voting-age population

80. In drunken driving cases, the police must conduct _____ tests on suspects.

81. Civil rights activists targeted segregation in interstate transportation _____.

82. Undocumented aliens are most common in _____ states.

83. The _____ test measures whether an action of the government achieves a fair purpose.

84. Examples of civil rights are each of the following except ________.

85. The itus forerunner was the __________

86. The constitution of 1876 embraced the concept of ___________ in education.

87. In most congressional elections, ____ outspend ____.

88. Political parties have been doing less ________ in recent years.

89. In may 2010, ________ percent of californians approved of the job the legislature was doing.

90. Cities must redistrict every __________ years.

91. Formula grants and project grants are both types of _________ grants.

92. Californias rice fields are _______.

93. California has a _________ executive, in which power is _________.

94. While northerners increasingly feared _______, southerners raised the specter of _______.

95. Hispanics in south texas and along the mexican border historically __________.

96. In 2013, ____________ exercised the "nuclear option" to ____________.

97. George gallup believed that __________. this belief continues to be common today.

98. When a crosscutting issue splits the party-in-the-electorate, this is know as _______.

99. The__________ banned slavery in the territories that were north of the southern border of missouri.

100. Block grants provide _____ funds for specific government services.