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Chapter 3: Federalism: The Changing Boundaries between the Nation and the States
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. The Constitution clearly establishes that ultimate political authority rests with the ______.
a. president
b. states
c. national government
d. people
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.1: Explain the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws highlighted by the issue of legalized marijuana.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. The Constitution is least clear on the way(s) in which authority and power would be vested to ______.
a. the legislative branch including the House of Representatives and Senate
b. the executive branch including the presidency
c. whatever structures of government Americans would choose to create and maintain
d. the judiciary, particularly the Supreme Court
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.1: Explain the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws highlighted by the issue of legalized marijuana.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. The new system of government created by the Constitution in which government would be divided between the national and state levels is best described as ______.
a. federalism
b. constitutionalism
c. confederalism
d. institutionalism
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.1: Explain the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws highlighted by the issue of legalized marijuana.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. While the Constitution created much of the basic framework for the division of power, it failed to perfectly delineate ______.
a. the barriers between the branches of government
b. the boundaries between national and state powers
c. the corresponding checks and balances of government
d. the degree to which citizens would granted sovereignty
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.1: Explain the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws highlighted by the issue of legalized marijuana.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Angel McClary Raich and Diane Monson filed suit against the federal government in which state?
a. Texas
b. Oklahoma
c. California
d. Arizona
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.1: Explain the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws highlighted by the issue of legalized marijuana.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Fight for Access to Medical Marijuana Reveals Tensions between State and Federal Law
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Raich and Monson were using marijuana under California’s ______.
a. Recreational Drug Use Law
b. Compassionate Use Act
c. Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy
d. constitutional provisions
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.1: Explain the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws highlighted by the issue of legalized marijuana.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Fight for Access to Medical Marijuana Reveals Tensions between State and Federal Law
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Marijuana is considered a class I narcotic under which of the following federal laws?
a. the Controlled Substances Act of 1970
b. the Comstock Act of 1873
c. the Volstead Act of 1919
d. the Food and Drug Act of 1906
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.1: Explain the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws highlighted by the issue of legalized marijuana.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Fight for Access to Medical Marijuana Reveals Tensions between State and Federal Law
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Which was the highest court to take up the case of Angel Raich and Diane Monson?
a. county
b. state
c. federal
d. Supreme
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.1: Explain the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws highlighted by the issue of legalized marijuana.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: In Gonzales v. Raich the Supreme Court Sided with Federal Law
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. In its decision in Gonzales v. Raich (2005), the Supreme Court sided with ______.
a. Raich and Monson
b. the State of California
c. the federal government
d. the Food and Drug Administration
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.1: Explain the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws highlighted by the issue of legalized marijuana.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: In Gonzales v. Raich the Supreme Court Sided with Federal Law
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. In explaining the Court’s Decision in Gonzalez v. Raich, the court went back to the policies of ______.
a. the Great Society
b. the War on Drugs
c. the Cold War
d. the Great Depression
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.1: Explain the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws highlighted by the issue of legalized marijuana.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: In Gonzales v. Raich the Supreme Court Sided with Federal Law
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Under a ______ system, the structures of government are placed entirely in the hands of a national government.
a. federal
b. confederal
c. unitary
d. monarchy
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: There Is More Than One Way to Divide Power between Levels of Government
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Which of the following represents a unitary political system?
a. the United States after 1788
b. the United States before 1788
c. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
d. India
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: There Is More Than One Way to Divide Power between Levels of Government
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. Under a ______ system of government, powers are shared between the national government and the states.
a. federal
b. confederal
c. unitary
d. democracy
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: There Is More Than One Way to Divide Power between Levels of Government
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Under a confederal system, such as the Articles of Confederation, national power comes from the ______.
a. people
b. president
c. Congress
d. states
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: There Is More Than One Way to Divide Power between Levels of Government
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Key to a true federal system is the existence of ______.
a. state authority in all governmental matters so as to limit the authority of the national government
b. a system of direct initiative and voting in all important matters similar to a direct democracy
c. constitutional protections for each level against encroachment on its powers by the other level
d. provisions of strong national governmental powers so as to limit the power of the states themselves
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: There Is More Than One Way to Divide Power between Levels of Government
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. One of the most important statements about where the people’s authority is located is the ______ clause.
a. establishment
b. supremacy
c. elastic
d. commerce
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Supremacy, Necessary and Proper, and Commerce Clauses Are the Key to American Federalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. The necessary and proper clause is also called the ______ clause.
a. establishment
b. supremacy
c. elastic
d. commerce
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Supremacy, Necessary and Proper, and Commerce Clauses Are the Keys to American Federalism
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. Under the ______ clause, Congress has claimed the authority to define nearly all productive activity as interstate commerce.
a. productivity
b. commerce
c. business
d. profitability
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Supremacy, Necessary and Proper, and Commerce Clauses Are the Keys to American Federalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. ______ has contributed to the growth of national power when combined with the necessary and proper Clause.
a. Vagueness in the language of the specific powers of national government
b. The lack of clear boundaries between national powers and those of the states
c. The need for centralized control over important policy issues such as drugs and education
d. The failure of clearly defined national powers to be expressed in the Constitution
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Supremacy, Necessary and Proper, and Commerce Clauses Are the Keys to American Federalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. Which of the following is most often used along with the necessary and proper and supremacy clauses to create federal law and policy?
a. the establishment clause
b. the commerce clause
c. the clear and present danger clause
d. the full faith and credit clause
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Supremacy, Necessary and Proper, and Commerce Clauses Are the Keys to American Federalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. Powers that are explicitly granted to the government in the Constitution are known as ______ powers.
a. enumerated
b. applied
c. concurrent
d. implied
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Most Powers of the National Government Are Explicit
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. Most of the enumerated powers in the Constitution were granted to the ______ branch.
a. executive
b. legislative
c. judicial
d. bureaucratic
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Most Powers of the National Government Are Explicit
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. Powers that are NOT explicitly spelled out in the Constitution, but are considered valid as means of carrying out the enumerated powers, are referred to as ______ powers.
a. implied
b. articulated
c. shared
d. reserved
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Most Powers of the National Government Are Explicit
Difficulty Level: Medium
24. Which of the following is an example of an implied power?
a. regulating interstate commerce
b. coining and printing money
c. declaring war
d. raising an air force
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Most Powers of the National Government Are Explicit
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. Which of the following is a power prohibited to the national government without the express consent of the state’s citizens?
a. declaring war
b. printing money
c. admitting new states
d. regulating commerce
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Most Powers of the National Government Are Explicit
Difficulty Level: Medium
26. Powers that are NOT given to the federal government, and therefore are reserved to the states, come from the ______ Amendment to the Constitution.
a. 1st
b. 5th
c. 10th
d. 15th
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Powers of State Governments Are Less Explicit
Difficulty Level: Easy
27. Powers used by states to protect and provide for their safety, health, and general welfare are called ______ powers.
a. reserved
b. police
c. martial law
d. expressed
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Powers of State Governments Are Less Explicit
Difficulty Level: Easy
28. Which of the following are states prohibited from doing?
a. regulating commerce within the state and between its citizens
b. making laws that are binding the state and its citizens
c. establishing courts at the state, county, or local level
d. entering into treaties with foreign governments
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Powers of State Governments Are Less Explicit
Difficulty Level: Medium
29. Powers to tax, borrow money, establish courts, charter banks and corporations, and pass and enforce laws, are called ______ in the United States.
a. concurrent powers
b. regulatory actions
c. executive orders
d. legitimate powers
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Powers of State Governments Are Less Explicit
Difficulty Level: Medium
30. Which of the following is considered a concurrent power?
a. establishing schools
b. printing currency
c. borrowing money
d. declaring war
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Powers of State Governments Are Less Explicit
Difficulty Level: Medium
31. According to the Constitution, local governments are ______.
a. prohibited from acting unless the national government specifically allows it
b. co-equal to the national government in a system denominated federalism
c. explicitly prescribed powers of education and transportation
d. subordinate to and reliant upon state governments
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Regional and Local Governments Have No Explicit Constitutional Powers
Difficulty Level: Hard
32. The Constitution fails to describe the powers of the levels of government below what level?
a. national
b. state
c. county
d. city
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Regional and Local Government Have No Explicit Constitutional Powers
Difficulty Level: Medium
33. From the perspective of federalism, there is(are) ______ level(s) of government.
a. one
b. two
c. three
d. four
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Regional and Local Government Have No Explicit Constitutional Powers
Difficulty Level: Medium
34. Under the federal system, cities depend upon ______ authority in order to operate.
a. national
b. state
c. county
d. mayoral
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Regional and Local Government Have No Explicit Constitutional Powers
Difficulty Level: Medium
35. Though NOT explicitly part of the federal structure, ______ governments also act in the political space to protect their own interests.
a. national
b. state
c. interstate
d. local
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Regional and Local Government Have No Explicit Constitutional Powers
Difficulty Level: Medium
36. Defining the relative power of the two levels of government as well as how closely they are intertwined has occurred through the ______ process.
a. executive
b. legislative
c. judicial
d. political
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: For Much of American History the Boundaries between the Nation and the States Were Sharper Than They Are Today
Difficulty Level: Medium
37. Which of the following court cases centered on the questions of whether the federal government had the authority to charter a bank and whether the state governments had the right to tax such a bank?
a. Gibbons v. Ogden
b. McCulloch v. Maryland
c. Barron v. Baltimore
d. Marbury v. Madison
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: McCulloch v. Maryland Relied on the Necessary Proper Clause to Assert the Power of Congress
Difficulty Level: Medium
38. The case of McCulloch v. Maryland cited which of the following Constitutional clauses?
a. the establishment clause
b. the necessary and proper clause
c. the commerce clause
d. the full faith and credit clause
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: McCulloch v. Maryland Relied on the Necessary Proper Clause to Assert the Power of Congress
Difficulty Level: Medium
39. Which of the following cases centered around the commerce and supremacy clauses of the Constitution?
a. Gibbons v. Ogden
b. McCulloch v. Maryland
c. Barron v. Baltimore
d. Marbury v. Madison
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gibbons v. Ogden Used the Commerce Clause to Affirm the Power of Congress to Regulate Trade
Difficulty Level: Medium
40. In Gibbons v. Ogden, the case involving steamboat operators on the Hudson River, the Supreme Cort affirmed Congress’s ability to regulate ______.
a. international waters
b. interstate commerce
c. transportation
d. travel and tourism
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gibbons v. Ogden Used the Commerce Clause to Affirm the Power of Congress to Regulate Trade
Difficulty Level: Medium
41. In Barron v. Baltimore, the Supreme Court ruled that John Barron’s claim that Baltimore had deprived him of his property without just compensation was not valid, because the ______ was only intended to apply to the federal government, not the states.
a. 1st Amendment’s establishment clause
b. necessary and proper clause
c. 5th Amendment’s due process clause
d. commerce clause
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Barron v. Baltimore Ruled That the Due Process Clause Applied Only to the National Government
Difficulty Level: Hard
42. While John Marshall’s Supreme Court affirmed national power under the necessary and proper clause and the commerce Clause, it did so with an eye toward ______.
a. future court rulings
b. public opinion
c. legislative authority
d. executive privilege
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Barron v. Baltimore Ruled That the Due Process Clause Applied Only to the Natonal Government
Difficulty Level: Medium
43. In which of the following ways did the Marshall Court’s decision in Barron v. Baltimore (1833) differ from its previous two decisions on federalism, i.e., McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) and Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)?
a. The decision in Barron dealt with sea-borne transit.
b. Barron was geographically centered in Maryland.
c. The Court restricted federal power in Barron.
d. Barron focused on taxation of banks.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Barron v. Baltimore Ruled That the Due Process Clause Applied Only to the National Government
Difficulty Level: Hard
44. Dual federalism ______.
a. evenly divided the people’s sovereignty between the nation and the states
b. focused the people’s sovereignty entirely on the states
c. placed the sovereignty of the people primarily on the national government
d. was designed to placate the demands of the federalists and anti-federalists alike
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Era of Dual Federalism Separated the Powers of the Nation and the States
Difficulty Level: Medium
45. For much of the 19th century, the model of the relationship between states and nation in the United States was one of ______.
a. coercive federalism
b. unitary federalism
c. dual federalism
d. cooperative federalism
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Era of Dual Federalism Separated the Powers of the Nation and the States
Difficulty Level: Medium
46. In the 19th century, the Supreme Court stated that the governments of the United States were ______.
a cohesive and intertwined
b. distinct and independent
c. collaborative and interdependent
d. counterproductive and polarized
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Era of Dual Federalism Separated the Powers of the Nation and the States
Difficulty Level: Medium
47. The Civil War was caused by slavery and by what federalism-related issue?
a. cooperative federalism
b. states’ rights
c. police powers
d. dual federalism
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: States’ Rights Grew during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Difficulty Level: Easy
48. Driving much of the politics and tensions in the middle of the 19th century was the issue of ______.
a. commerce
b. supremacy
c. education
d. slavery
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: States’ Rights Grew during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Difficulty Level: Easy
49. In the mid-19th century, as the original Federalist judges began to retire or passed away, many of their replacements held a stronger view of ______.
a. state authority
b. local authority
c. national authority
d. international authority
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: States’ Rights Grew during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Difficulty Level: Easy
50. In the 1830s, South Carolina Senator John Calhoun argued for the rights of states to ______.
a. decide form themselves the issue of slavery
b. secede from the Union
c. nullify federal laws
d. maintain sovereignty over the national government
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: States’ Rights Grew during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Difficulty Level: Easy
51. In December 1860, ______.
a. Texas was admitted to the Union
b. South Carolina seceded from the Union
c. the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed
d. the Supreme Court ruled on the issue of nullification
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: States’ Rights Grew during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Difficulty Level: Easy
52. As the United States began to focus its attention toward the ______, the rights of ______ received less and less attention and protection.
a. Pacific Ocean; African Americans
b. Eastern Seaboard; the states
c. Northwest Territories; individual citizens
d. Southwest; Hispanic Americans
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: States’ Rights Grew during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Difficulty Level: Easy
53. In the Slaughterhouse Cases, the Supreme Court weighed in for the first time on the protections offered by the ______.
a. 10th Amendment
b. 13th Amendment
c. 14th Amendment
d. 15th Amendment
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Under Dual Federalism, the Supreme Court Restricted African Americans’ Rights after the Civil War
Difficulty Level: Easy
54. By placing limits on the privileges and immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment, the Supreme Court upheld the authority of states to exercise their ______.
a. sovereignty
b. martial law privileges
c. police powers
d. commerce powers
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Under Dual Federalism, the Supreme Court Restricted African Americans’ Rights after the Civil War
Difficulty Level: Medium
55. The case of ______ was a landmark case in restricting the rights of African Americans following the Civil War by upholding the constitutionality of legalized racist segregation.
a. Marbury v. Madison
b. Brown v. Board of Education
c. Plessey v. Ferguson
d. Dred Scott v. Sanford
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Under Dual Federalism, the Supreme Court Restricted African Americans’ Rights after the Civil War
Difficulty Level: Medium
56. A vision of American federalism in which the states and the national government work together to shape policy is called ______.
a. dual federalism
b. unitary federalism
c. cooperative federalism
d. coercive federalism
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: In the Age of Industry and National Expansion, Cooperative Federalism Emerged
Difficulty Level: Easy
57. Which of the following statements about cooperative federalism is accurate?
a. Cooperative federalism’s origins can be found in the late 19th century.
b. Dual federalism replaced cooperative federalism by the end of the Civil War.
c. Cooperative federalism and states’ rights ran concurrently in U.S. history.
d. John Calhoun was a major proponent of cooperative federalism.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: In the Age of Industry and National Expansion, Cooperative Federalism Emerged
Difficulty Level: Hard
58. In the late 19th century, the primary theme of both national and state policy in the United States was one of ______.
a. progressivism
b. socialism
c. communism
d. limited interference with capitalism
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: In the Age of Industry and National Expansion, Cooperative Federalism Emerged
Difficulty Level: Easy
59. During the entire decade of the 1930s, America’s heartland experienced ______.
a. a period of agricultural prosperity
b. the worst drought in American history
c. social and political unrest
d. transition from agriculture to industrialism
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism..
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: President Franklin Roosevelt’s Response to the Great Depression Reshaped American Federalism
Difficulty Level: Easy
60. Economically, the decade of the 1930s was a period of ______.
a. prolonged deflation and scarce money
b. exaggerated inflation and cheap credit
c. extreme prosperity and economic domination
d. rapidly growing employment opportunities
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: President Franklin Roosevelt’s Response to the Great Depression Reshaped American Federalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
61. The most significant economic crisis in U.S. history was the ______.
a. Great Depression
b. Grand Recessio.
c. Dust Bowl
d. Stock Market Crash of 1929
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: President Franklin Roosevelt’s Response to the Great Depression Reshaped American Federalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
62. In order to battle the effects of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt called for expanded ______ power.
a. legislative
b. judicial
c. executive
d. bureaucratic
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: President Roosevelt Greatly Expanded the Role of the National Government
Difficulty Level: Easy
63. President Roosevelt’s plan for tackling the Great Depression was known as the ______.
a. Great Society
b. New Deal
c. Broad Horizon
d. Grand Contract
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: President Roosevelt Greatly Expanded the Role of the National Government
Difficulty Level: Easy
64. President Roosevelt’s policies fundamentally changed the relationship between the states and the national government by ______.
a. forcibly strengthening national police powers in comparison to those of the states
b. collaboratively accomplishing a shared solution to economic problems
c. strengthening state power in the governance of commercial activities
d. dramatically strengthening the role of the national government in the economy
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: In the New Deal, Cooperative Federalism Replaced Dual Federalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
65. President Roosevelt’s first priority was to strengthen the nation’s crumbling ______ system.
a highway
b. stock
c. banking
d. farming
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: President Roosevelt Greatly Expanded the Role of the National Government
Difficulty Level: Medium
66. The program that established a set of rules governing prices, outputs, wages, working hours, management–labor relations, and the employment of children for American businesses was the ______.
a. CCC
b. AAA
c. AFA
d. NRA
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: President Roosevelt Greatly Expanded the Role of the National Government
Difficulty Level: Easy
67. The Supreme Court’s judgment in the case of Schechter Poultry Corp. V. United States had which of the following effects?
a. It found that the NRA had exceeded its constitutional authority to regulate commerce.
b. It sided with the Roosevelt administration and upheld the New Deal.
c. It led to a complete overturn of the New Deal.
d. It impacted the sovereignty of states with regard to regulating commerce.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Supreme Court Pushed Back against President Roosevelt’s New Deal Expansions
Difficulty Level: Medium
68. In response to the Supreme Court decision in Schechter Poultry Corp. V. United States, the Roosevelt administration ______.
a. conceded it had exceeded its constitutional authority
b. called for a series of constitutional amendments expanding executive and legislative authority
c. crafted an important set of programs and federal legislation known as the Second New Deal
d. shifted commerce power and authority to the states in order to achieve his stated national goals
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: President Roosevelt Struck Back with a Court-Packing Plan
Difficulty Level: Medium
69. Which of the following statements best summarizes the majority decision in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935)?
a. Schechter, despite being an immigrant, is required to follow U.S. law while on U.S. soil and the lower court’s ruling is this upheld.
b. The lower court’s decision is overturned; Congress cannot pass laws against specific religions and their associated food practices.
c. The lower court’s judgement was upheld as the state has a vested right in the maintenance of order, especially in the economy.
d. Because the commerce never left the state, it does not qualify as interstate commerce and the lower court’s judgement was overturned.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Supreme Court Pushed Back against President Roosevelt’s New Deal Expansions
Difficulty Level: Hard
70. Included in the Second New Deal was which of the following important government programs?
a. Medicare
b. Social Security
c. TANF
d. Medicaid
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: President Roosevelt Struck Back with a Court-Packing Plan
Difficulty Level: Medium
71. The relationship between the states and the nation was permanently altered during Roosevelt’s New Deal by increasing ______.
a. the level of Congressional authority to regulate interstate commerce
b. the executive powers of the president and his/her cabinet
c. the judicial powers of the Supreme Court and the federal court system
d. the sovereignty of state legislatures and executives to implement new programs
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: In the New Deal, Cooperative Federalism Replaced Dual Federalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
72. Under the New Deal, which type of federalism was entrenched?
a. dual federalism
b. coercive federalism
c. cooperative federalism
d. unitary federalism
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: In the New Deal, Cooperative Federalism Replaced Dual Federalism
Difficulty Level: Easy
73. One of the primary tools that the federal government can use to achieve its policy objectives within the legal purview traditionally controlled by the states is through the use of ______.
a. the commerce clause
b. grants-in-aid
c. the supremacy clause
d. cooperative policy development
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Modern American Federalism Remains Cooperative But Faces Challenges
Difficulty Level: Easy
74. The main form of a grant-in-aid during and after the New Deal has been the ______ grant.
a. block
b. categorical
c. devolution
d. revenue sharing
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Modern American Federalism Remains Cooperative But Faces Challenges
Difficulty Level: Medium
75. By encouraging states to carry out national policy objectives, categorical grants act as a ______, and by threatening states with the withholding of funds if they fail to carry out government policy, categorical grants act as a ______
a. carrot; stick
b. motivator; reinforcer
c. punishment; reward
d. disincentive; incentive
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Modern American Federalism Remains Cooperative But Faces Challenges
Difficulty Level: Medium
76. Which statement articulates the correct relationship between categorical grants, block grants, and grants-in-aid?
a. Categorical grants are given to states while block grants and grants-in-aid come from states.
b. Grants-in-aid and categorical grants are kinds of block grants.
c. Block grants and categorical grants are different types of grants-in-aid.
d. Categorical grants come with strings attached; grants-in-aid and block grants do not.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Modern American Federalism Remains Cooperative But Faces Challenges
Difficulty Level: Hard
77. In 1974, in the midst of an oil crisis, the federal government passed the National Maximum Speed Law, requiring states set their speed limits to a maximum of 55 MPH or lose federal transportation funding. This law exemplifies what concept?
a. categorical grants
b. devolution
c. block grants
d. unfunded mandates
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Modern American Federalism Remains Cooperative But Faces Challenges
Difficulty Level: Medium
78. The most significant expansion of national power through the use of categorical grants-in-aid in the post–New Deal era was under Lyndon Johnson’s ______.
a. Great Society
b. New Deal
c. Broad Horizon
d. Grand Contract
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society Expanded Cooperative Federalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
79. Which of the following programs was included in President Johnson’s Great Society?
a. Social Security
b. Medicare
c. Aid to Dependent Children
d. the Civilian Conservation Corps
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society Expanded Cooperative Federalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
80. As a part of President Johnson’s Great Society program, the federal government saw an expansion of its powers in the policy area of ______.
a. commerce
b. legislation
c. education
d. drugs
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society Expanded Cooperative Federalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
81. President Nixon’s roll-back on the expansion of national authority and its return to the states was called ______.
a. cooperative federalism
b. new federalism
c. dual federalism
d. coercive federalism
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: With New Federalism Came Devolution and Attempts to Roll Back National Power
Difficulty Level: Medium
82. One of the main tools of President Nixon’s attempts to reduce national authority was the use of ______.
a. grants-in-aid
b. categorical grants
c. block grants
d. revenue sharing
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: With New Federalism Came Devolution and Attempts to Roll Back National Power
Difficulty Level: Medium
83. A national policy goal of returning authority to state or local governments is known as ______.
a. anti-federalism
b. devolution
c. block grants
d. nullification
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: With New Federalism Came Devolution and Attempts to Roll Back National Power
Difficulty Level: Medium
84. Federal regulations that must be followed by the states but whose costs must also be shouldered by the states are known as ______.
a. devolution
b. revenue sharing
c. nullification
d. unfunded mandates
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Challenges to Cooperation
Difficulty Level: Medium
85. Efforts by state and local governments to act in Washington, D.C., on behalf of their own needs are known as ______.
a. interstate relations
b. intrastate legislation
c. intergovernmental lobbying
d. extragovernmental conferencing
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Lobbying
Difficulty Level: Medium
86. One tool that many states have used to challenge federal authority has been measures passed by state legislatures affirming their rights under the 10th Amendment, known as ______.
a. state sovereignty resolutions
b. nullification bills
c. articles of secession
d. petitions of authority
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Challenges to Cooperation
Difficulty Level: Medium
True/False
1. The Constitution clearly places political authority in the hands of the people.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.1: Explain the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws between state and federal laws highlighted by the issue of legalized marijuana.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. After a thorough investigation, federal officials determined that Angel Raich and Diane Monson were in compliance with national drug laws.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.1: Explain the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws between state and federal laws highlighted by the issue of legalized marijuana.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Fight for Access to Medical Marijuana Reveals Tensions between State and Federal Law
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Federal systems divide the sovereignty of citizens between two or more levels of government
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.1: Explain the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws highlighted by the issue of legalized marijuana.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. The framers of the Constitution succeeded in making clear and precise descriptions of the relationship between national and state authority.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.1: Explain the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws highlighted by the issue of legalized marijuana..
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. The elastic clause grants Congress the authority to legislate as necessary to carry out constitutionally granted powers.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Supremacy, Necessary and Proper, and Commerce Clauses Are the Keys to American Federalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. The Constitution expressly gives Congress the power to establish an air force.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Supremacy, Necessary and Proper, and Commerce Clauses Are the Keys to American Federalism
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. The first system of federalism in U.S. history was a tradition of cooperative federalism.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Era of Dual Federalism Separated the Powers of the Nation and the States
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Following the Civil War, the Supreme Court emerged as a defender of African American Civil Rights.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Under Dual Federalism, the Supreme Court Restricted African Americans’ Rightsafter the Civil War.
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. In the Slaughterhouse Cases (1873), the Supreme Court interpreted the 14th Amendment narrowly, limiting its purview to one race.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Under Dual Federalism, the Supreme Court Restricted African Americans’ Rights after the Civil War
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. The case of Plessey v. Ferguson established a long-lasting tradition of “separate but equal” facilities in the United States.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Under Dual Federalism, the Supreme Court Restricted African Americans’ Rights after the Civil War
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. The latter part of the 19th century and early decades of the 20th century were characterized by a form of federalism known as coercive federalism.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: In the Age of Industry and National Expansion, Cooperative Federalism Emergedu
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Based on U.S. history up until the 1930s, the New Deal’s expansion of federal government power can be seen as inevitable.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: In the New Deal, Cooperative Federalism Replaced Dual Federalism
Difficulty Level: Hard
13. From its beginnings, the National Industrial Recovery Act was widely acclaimed.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Supreme Court Pushed Back against President Roosevelt’s New Deal Expansions
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. The decision in Sechter Poultry Corp. v. U.S. would reinforce the constitutionality of FDR’s New Deal Programs.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Supreme Court Pushed Back against President Roosevelt’s New Deal Expansions
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. In setting out the “codes of fair competition,” Chief Justice Hughes would write in his Schechter opinion that “assertions of extra constitutional authority” were appropriate in an environment of national economic emergency and consistent with the boundaries of the 10th Amendment.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Supreme Court Pushed Back against President Roosevelt’s New Deal Expansions
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. The expansion of national power under Roosevelt’s New Deal led to an entrenchment of cooperative federalism.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: In the New Deal, Cooperative Federalism Replaced Dual Federalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. Many states criticize the use of categorical grants because of the “carrots” and “sticks” that often come with them.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Modern American Federalism Remains Cooperative But Faces Challenges
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. The most significant expansion of national power through the use of categorical grants-in-aid in the post–New Deal era occurred during the presidency of Richard Nixon.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society Expanded Cooperative Federalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. Block grants give state officials more authority in the disbursement of federal funds.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: With New Federalism Came Devolution and Attempts to Roll Back National Power
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. A tactic that states have occasionally used and may continue to use in the future is passing state laws that are in direct violation of a federal law or policy, often by amending state constitutions to do so.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Challenges to Cooperation
Difficulty Level: Medium
Short Answer
1. In creating a new system of government that would divide the people’s authority between the nation and the states, it created a system called ______.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.1: Explain the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws highlighted by the issue of legalized marijuana.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. The necessary and proper clause of the Constitution is often referred to as the ______ clause.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Supremacy, Necessary and Proper, and Commerce Clauses Are the Keys to American Federalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. The ability of states to regulate education would be considered a ______ power under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Powers of the State Governments Are Less Explicit
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. In order to operate, local governments get their power from the ______.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Regional and Local Governments Have No Explicit Constitutional Powers
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. What was the name of the period in 1933 when President Roosevelt shepherded significant recovery and reform legislation through Congress?
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: President Roosevelt Greatly Expanded the Role of the National Government
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Following his landslide re-election in 1936, President Roosevelt sought to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court. This was known as his what?
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: President Roosevelt Struck Back with a Court-Packing Plan
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. The most important financial tool of cooperative federalism is the use of federal ______.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Modern American Federalism Remains Cooperative but Faces Challenges
Difficulty Level: Easy
Essay
1. How does the case of Angel Raich and Diane Monson demonstrate the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws?
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.1: Explain the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws highlighted by the issue of legalized marijuana.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Fight for Access to Medical Marijuana Reveals Tensions between State and Federal Law
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. How are the commerce, supremacy, and elastic Clauses used in the course of American federalism? What advantage, if any, does the federal government receive from the use of these clauses?
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.2: Identify the elements of the U.S. Constitution that shape American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Supremacy, Necessary and Proper, and Commerce Clauses Are the Keys to American Federalism
Difficulty Level: Hard
3. How did 19th century interpretations of American federalism lead to the denial of fundamental rights to specific groups of Americans?
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.3: Describe the development of American federalism from the founding until the New Deal.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Under Dual Federalism, the Supreme Court Restricted African Americans’ Rights after the Civil War
Difficulty Level: Hard
4. In what ways did the New Deal impact the progression of American federalism? How can we see these impacts today?
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.4: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Examine the role that the New Deal played in fundamentally reshaping American federalism.
Difficulty Level: Hard
5. As the United States enters the second decade of the 20th century, what role do you feel federalism will play in the future? What are its challenges?
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Modern American Federalism Remains Cooperative But Faces Challenges
Difficulty Level: Hard
6. In the past few decades, what manners have states developed to resist the increased authority of the national government?
TOP: Learning Outcome: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
KEY: Learning Objective: 3.5: Discuss changes to American federalism in the modern era how it might continue to evolve.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Where Is American Federalism Headed Today?
Difficulty Level: Medium
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