Full Test Bank American Citizens And Political Culture Ch.2

Test Bank

Chapter 2: American Citizens and Political Culture

Multiple Choice

1. Through which means do the authors of your textbook examine the demographic data that helps us understand America’s political issues?

a. statistics

b. identity politics

c. nativism

d. procedural guarantees

e. individualism

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: American Citizens and Political Culture

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

2. Which of the following is a policy typically supported by those racial and ethnic minorities that recent demographic data show are poised to replace whites as the majority population in the United States?

a. immigration reform

b. identity politics

c. nativism

d. authoritarian populism

e. individualism

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: American Citizens and Political Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

3. Individuals born in the United States are American citizens, even if their parents are not, following the principle of ______.

a. free movement

b. children’s rights

c. jus prudence

d. jus curie

e. jus soli

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

4. Jus soli is the legal principle that defines citizenship by the right of ______.

a. blood

b. law

c. free speech

d. the soil

e. religious freedom

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

5. Citizens or subjects of other countries who come to the United States to live or work are known as ______.

a. American emigrants

b. naturalized citizens

c. tourists

d. immigrants

e. illegal aliens

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

6. The legal process of acquiring citizenship for a person who was not born a U.S. citizen is known as ______.

a. immigration

b. jus soli

c. habeas corpus

d. jus sanguinis

e. naturalization

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

7. Individuals who come to the United States seeking asylum are known as ______.

a. illegal aliens

b. de facto citizens

c. immigrants

d. international personae non grata

e. political refugees

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

8. The federal agency that now oversees the naturalization process is the United States ______.

a. Citizenship and Immigration Services

b. Customs and Border Protection Service

c. Federal Bureau of Investigation

d. Immigration and Naturalization Services

e. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

9. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services was moved from the Department of Justice to the Department of Homeland Security because ______.

a. security issues have come to play a more central role in determining who may enter the country

b. it had been too easy on immigrants in the past

c. it had been too hard on immigrants in the past

d. a greater emphasis was to be placed on dealing with immigrants who are already in the country

e. Congress has more control over the Department of Homeland Security than over the Department of Justice

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

10. After World War II, ______ scientists were brought to the United States to develop a rocket program as their expertise in the field made them desirable immigrants at the time.

a. French

b. Japanese

c. Canadian

d. German

e. Chinese

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

11. By what year is it estimated that whites will become a minority within the United States?

a. 2045

b. 2030

c. 2055

d. 2060

e. 2050

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

12. Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986, granting ______.

a. immediate deportation to those who crossed the border illegally from Mexico, without any allowance for a deportation hearing

b. amnesty to illegals who had entered before 1982, and it attempted to tighten controls on those who came after

c. deportation for individuals here illegally from selected countries but only after a hearing and opportunity to be heard was provided to the immigrants

d. a probationary period for illegal immigrants in which they had to procure employment or show that they had made attempts to obtain employment

e. immigrants a chance to participate in a lottery system, whereby individuals would be allowed to stay in the United States based on participation in that lottery

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

13. President Obama and Democrats who supported him tried to pass the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, a piece of legislation that would have ______.

a. doubled the number of immigrants allowed to enter the country

b. offered relief to young immigrants who had been brought to the United States without documentation

c. granted amnesty to any immigrants who had entered the country illegally prior to 1982

d. expanded the authority of the Immigration and Naturalization Service

e. allowed undocumented children to receive a two year exemption from deportation

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

14. Among those who argue against deporting everyone who has immigrated to the United States illegally are ______.

a. most conservatives

b. businesspeople who enjoy the benefits of cheap labor

c. those who worry about condoning what they view as a crime

d. most of the 2008 Republican presidential candidates

e. most Republicans

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

15. The importance of political culture is that it ______.

a. provides an objective measure of political reality

b. gives us a common language in which to discuss and debate political ideas

c. is the primary source of international peace

d. replaces ideology as a source of belief among citizens

e. increases conflict in society

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

16. The broad pattern of ideas, beliefs, and values about citizens and government held by a population is known as its ______.

a. political culture

b. ideology

c. political philosophy

d. constitution

e. political faith

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

17. Americans tend to believe in ______ guarantees by government.

a. no

b. substantive

c. procedural

d. limited

e. financial

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

18. The United States’ representative democracy is based on ______.

a. free speech and majority rule

b. equal voting rights and the right to bear arms

c. equal substantive rights and free speech

d. the consent of the governed and free exercise of religion

e. majority rule and the consent of the governed

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That United Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

19. Individualism means or implies all of the following EXCEPT ______.

a. what is good for society is based on what is good for the individual

b. individuals are themselves the best judge of what is good

c. what is good for the individual follows from what is good for society

d. individuals are responsible for their own welfare

e. democracy, freedom, and equality should be understood in terms of procedures

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

20. Americans’ belief in freedom is defined as freedom from ______.

a. restraint by the government

b. the limitations created by poverty

c. the limitations created by lack of knowledge

d. the power of corporations

e. physical limitations

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

21. The American concept of equality tends to consist of ensuring ______.

a. that the outcomes of the political process are relatively equal

b. that the rules favor those who have been mistreated in the past

c. that the rules treat everyone the same

d. that the rules further social justice

e. maximum feasible political participation

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

22. Normative statements draw their worth from which of the following?

a. the peoples’ faith in procedural guarantees

b. the arguments made to back them up

c. society’s shared values and beliefs regarding politics

d. public support for the concept of solidarity

e. the degree to which they are true or false

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

23. Americans tend to equate democracy with ______.

a. efficiency

b. fairness

c. elitism

d. power

e. prosperity

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

24. Americans believe that ______ is the most appropriate procedure for making public-policy decisions.

a. a corporatist arrangement

b. a referendum or an initiative

c. democracy

d. collective bargaining

e. interest group politics

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That United Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

25. According to the text, the Bill of Rights clearly shows Americans’ commitment to ______ freedom.

a. economic

b. procedural

c. libertarian

d. democratic

e. republican

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

26. The procedural character of equality for Americans causes them to argue that equality should be measured as ______.

a. the equal distribution of social resources

b. equal social status

c. equal economic but not equal social resources

d. equality of opportunity

e. the equal distribution of economic resources

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

27. A set of beliefs about politics and society that helps people make sense of their world is called ______.

a. a political attitude

b. an ideology

c. a public policy

d. public opinion

e. political socialization

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

28. Those who tend to equate change with progress are known as ______.

a. conservatives

b. libertarians

c. economic conservatives

d. Republicans

e. liberals

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

29. Those who tend for favor limited government are known as ______.

a. economic liberals

b. Democrats

c. conservatives

d. liberals

e. social liberals

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

30. Compared with most countries, in the United States, the range of the ideological spectrum is ______.

a. wider in regard to economic issues

b. narrower because of our political ideologies

c. narrower because of our shared political culture

d. wider in regard to social issues

e. narrower because of our belief that government should guarantee equal results for all citizens

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

31. A nation’s general political disposition is typically referred to as its ______.

a. political culture

b. solidarity

c. individualism

d. political correctness

e. procedural guarantee

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

32. The question of how much control the government should have over the way we organize and live our collective lives is a question on the ______ ideological dimension.

a. social order

b. economic

c. political

d. conservative

e. collective

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

33. Which of the following has been identified by researchers as the reason why Americans during the 1980s and 1990s focused more on issues of morality than on economic needs?

a. More people were able to provide for their basic economic needs.

b. More people identified themselves as upper class.

c. More people were living below the poverty line.

d. Conservative ideology grew significantly during those decades.

e. A majority of Americans supported government intervention in the economy.

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

34. Which of the following is a reason why conservatives typically argue against excessive government intervention in the economy?

a. They believe addressing questions of morality is more important.

b. They believe such action contradicts America’s traditional concept of political culture.

c. They fear it would prevent the government from guaranteeing specific procedural outcomes.

d. They see the government as incompetent in economic matters.

e. They fear it may lead to the rise of widespread authoritarian populist movements.

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

35. Why do many Americans find it difficult to identify themselves as conservatives or liberals?

a. because they consider themselves liberal on some issues and conservative on other issues

b. because they are too apathetic to vote

c. because they don’t understand the requirements to vote

d. because our political culture unites us

e. because our political culture confuses our political ideologies

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

36. Those who believe that government power should be strictly limited in all areas of life are called ______.

a. conservatives

b. liberals

c. communitarians

d. libertarians

e. socialists

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

37. Social conservatives would agree with all of the following EXCEPT ______.

a. use of government power to encourage and protect traditional family roles

b. a powerful military

c. the use of substantive laws to create a particular moral order

d. significant use of government power to affect the economy

e. more stringent controls on immigration

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

38. Which of the following advocate the absolute minimum of government action in the economic sphere?

a. conservatives

b. liberals

c. libertarians

d. communitarians

e. nativists

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

39. Which of the following most closely aligns with communitarian views of community?

a. Communities should be based on the radical equality of all people.

b. Communities should disavow political correctness.

c. Communities should eliminate taxation that supports social programs.

d. Communities should have more power to regulate individual moral choices.

e. Communities should be based upon traditional power structures.

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

40. All of the following statements concerning the Tea Party movement are true EXCEPT ______.

a. it is fueled by anger

b. many of the movement’s members are social conservatives

c. many of the movement’s members are libertarians

d. it is hard to classify ideologically

e. it is allied mostly with the Democratic Party

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

41. The recent conservative movement created by a wave of populist anger is the ______ movement.

a. Glenn Beck

b. Libertarian

c. Tea Party

d. Populist

e. Fox

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

42. Compared with the situation in most other Western democracies, voter turnout in American elections is ______.

a. slightly behind but catching up gradually

b. roughly the same

c. much higher

d. slightly higher and holding steady

e. much lower

Learning Objective: 2.4: Describe the gap between the ideal American democratic narrative and its practice.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Citizens and American Political Beliefs

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

43. Those who believe in the ______ theory of democracy argue that it does not matter whether people participate in politics.

a. pluralist

b. communitarian

c. elite

d. participatory

e. social

Learning Objective: 2.4: Describe the gap between the ideal American democratic narrative and its practice.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Citizens and American Political Beliefs

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

44. According to the authors, which of the following is true regarding the right to vote?

a. More people are exercising the right to vote than ever before.

b. The United States has grown more democratic during the past two hundred years.

c. Most people vote because they are self-interested individualistic citizens.

d. People who belong to politically oriented groups have the highest voter turnout rate.

e. African Americans have the lowest voter turnout rate among minorities.

Learning Objective: 2.4: Describe the gap between the ideal American democratic narrative and its practice.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Citizens and American Political Beliefs

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

45. Some argue that the increase in number of self-interested individualistic citizens has led to a parallel increase in which of the following?

a. the number of people who belong to politically oriented groups such as labor unions.

b. the number of young people who register to vote each year.

c. the number of people who support the communitarian view of radical equality.

d. the number of people who assume that since they were born free they will remain free.

e. the number of people who identify as economic liberals or libertarians.

Learning Objective: 2.4: Describe the gap between the ideal American democratic narrative and its practice.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Citizens and American Political Beliefs

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

46. Which of the following suggests that if someone belongs to a labor union or a veterans’ group then they don’t necessarily need to be a politically active individual?

a. the nativist theory

b. authoritarian populism

c. social conservatism

d. libertarian theory

e. the pluralist theory

Learning Objective: 2.4: Describe the gap between the ideal American democratic narrative and its practice.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Citizens and American Political Beliefs

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

47. Which of the following is a legal right guaranteed to immigrants who are not permanent residents of the United States?

a. due process of law

b. the right to vote in national elections

c. freedom from the authority of USCIS

d. right to relief under the DREAM act

e. protection from deportation

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

48. Which of the following is true regarding popular perceptions of immigrants?

a. Nativist sentiment is typically strongest when the economy is prosperous.

b. The majority of Americans have historically favored few, if any, restrictions on immigration.

c. The economy generally has little, if any, impact as to how people feel about immigration.

d. When unemployment is low people tend to look more favorably upon immigrants.

e. The desire of citizens to restrict immigration did not become widespread until the twentieth century.

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

49. Which of the following is a result of the disproportionate distribution of immigrants among the population at large?

a. It has reduced the backlash of nativist sentiment in many parts of the United States.

b. The federal government cut off funding to most sanctuary cities.

c. There is an uneven impact on the consumption of social services and community resources.

d. It has forced the reallocation of funds for social services at the local level.

e. It has fueled the debate over the extent to which government should intervene in the economy.

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

50. The three core values of American political culture are ______.

a. democracy, freedom, and equality

b. capitalism, freedom, and voting rights

c. democracy, free speech, and equality

d. free trade, free speech, and voting rights

e. nativism, democracy, and equality

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

51. Under the Immigration Reform and Control Act, amnesty was provided to illegal immigrants who had entered the United States prior to what year?

a. 1965

b. 1982

c. 1986

d. 1970

e. 1980

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

52. The belief of many Americans that individuals should generally be allowed to make most of the decisions regarding their own lives is shared with which other countries?

a. Mexico, Denmark, and Sweden

b. Germany, Mexico, and Norway

c. Great Britain, Sweden, and Denmark

d. Germany, Denmark, and Sweden

e. Sweden, Denmark, and Norway

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

53. Solidarity as practiced by the nations of Scandinavia conflicts directly with Americans’ belief in which of the following?

a. nativism

b. individualism

c. procedural guarantees

d. identity politics

e. equality

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

54. Consent and majority rule are the cornerstones of which American value?

a. democracy

b. equality

c. individualism

d. freedom

e. nativism

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

55. The individualistic view of economic freedom prevalent in the United States has a direct impact on which of the following?

a. immigration quotas

b. the funding of immigration agencies

c. the amount of taxes citizens pay

d. border regulation

e. the type of social services available

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

56. Which of the following would disagree with the practice of physician-assisted suicide?

a. liberals

b. communitarians

c. nativists

d. conservatives

e. individualists

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

57. Libertarians fall into which category?

a. economic conservatives

b. social liberals

c. economic liberals

d. social conservatives

e. communitarians

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

58. Communitarians fall into which category?

a. economic liberals

b. economic conservatives

c. social conservatives

d. social liberals

e. libertarians

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

59. Government policies that support the notion of a hierarchical order within society as opposed to equality for all would find favor with which of the following?

a. social liberals

b. economic liberals

c. communitarians

d. authoritarian populists

e. social conservatives

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

60. Which of the following led to the near collapse of the Democratic Party during the 1960s?

a. the rise in nativist sentiment

b. anti–Vietnam War sentiment

c. the push for immigration reform

d. backlash against popular communitarian views

e. the rise of identity politics

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

True/False

1. The term ideology refers to a set of beliefs about politics and society that helps people make sense of their political world.

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

2. According to the text, liberals are people who believe in the widespread use of government power.

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Easy

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

3. The social order is an ideological dimension predicated upon the question of how much control the government should exert or questions of morality.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

4. Social conservatives support such economic policies as housing subsidies for the poor.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

5. Most people find it difficult to identify themselves as simply liberal or conservative because they consider themselves to be liberal on some issues and conservative on others.

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

6. A person born in Guam is a citizen of the United States.

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

7. If you are born outside of the United States to American parents, you are not a citizen of the United States.

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

8. The number of undocumented workers entering the United States has increased in recent years.

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

9. The unfettered distribution of information that challenges the preferred social order aligns perfectly with conservative social order ideology.

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

10. Tea Party Supporters typically reject programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

Short Answer

1. Every change in the makeup of the American population brings a change in ______.

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: On the Edge of the American Dream

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

2. What is the difference between receiving American citizenship after being born to American parents as opposed to receiving citizenship through naturalization?

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

3. Why are social services in areas with large numbers of illegal immigrants often underfunded?

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

4. Why do some people argue that providing illegal immigrants amnesty or a path to citizenship is a better alternative than repatriation?

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

5. Why do the authors of your textbook classify American political culture as procedural?

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

6. Why do the authors of your textbook classify American political culture as individualistic?

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

7. What are the major tenets of the Tea Party political narrative?

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

8. Identify and define each of the three major strands of Republican Party ideology.

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

9. Identify and define each of the three major strands of Democratic Party ideology.

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

10. Define the melting pot theory of immigration.

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: American Citizens and Political Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

Essay

1. Compare and contrast the individualistic nature of American politics with the collectivist viewpoint found in other countries.

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Hard

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

2. In American political culture, expectations focus on rules and procedures rather than results. Discuss how the focus on rules and procedures affects the definitions of American core values and what is expected of government.

Learning Objective: 2.2: Explain how shared core values define the United States as a country and a culture.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Ideas That Unite Us

Difficulty Level: Hard

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

3. Ideological differences were often thought to reflect Americans’ different views on the proper role of the government in the economy. Explain why the economy is not the only area in which people are divided on the role of government and what this means for American ideology.

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Hard

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

4. Given the incredibly low rates of voter participation and political interest manifest by American citizens, how does American democracy still manage to work?

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Hard

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

5. How do conservatives typically view the social order ideological dimension and what are the major tenets of their viewpoint?

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Hard

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

6. Discuss the rise and ideological foundation of the Tea Party.

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Hard

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

7. Discuss the ideological transformation of the Democratic Party from the 1960s through the present.

Learning Objective: 2.3: Describe the competing narratives that drive partisan divisions in American politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Ideas That Divide Us

Difficulty Level: Hard

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

8. What factors impact popular perceptions of immigrants and policies regarding the admission of immigrants?

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Hard

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

9. What problems and benefits do undocumented immigrants pose for local communities?

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Hard

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.

10. From a legal vantage point, how has the United States historically attempted to restrict immigration?

Learning Objective: 2.1: Analyze the role of immigration and citizenship in U.S. politics.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Who Is an American?

Difficulty Level: Hard

TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.