AP Gov - Congress and Presidency UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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AP Gov - Congress and Presidency
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AP Gov - Congress And Presidency
AP Gov - Congress and Presidency
UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Constituents - Correct Answer- The residents of a congressional district or state.
Reapportionment - Correct Answer- The process of reassigning representation based on
population, after every census.
AP Gov - Congress and Presidency
UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Constituents - Correct Answer- The residents of a congressional district or state.
Reapportionment - Correct Answer- The process of reassigning representation based on
population, after every census.
Redistricting - Correct Answer- The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district
lines following the census, to accommodate population shifts and keep districts as equal as
possible in population.
Gerrymandering - Correct Answer- The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a
party, group, or incumbent.
Safe Seat - Correct Answer- An elected office that is predictably won by one party or the
other, so the success of that party's candidate is almost taken for granted.
Incumbent - Correct Answer- The current holder of an elected office.
Franking Privilege - Correct Answer- Benefit that allows members of Congress to mail letters
and other materials to constituents postage-free.
Earmarks - Correct Answer- Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of
individual members of Congress for their constituents. (Also called Pork Barreling)
Bicameralism - Correct Answer- The principle of a two-house legislature.
Enumerated Powers - Correct Answer- The powers explicitly given to Congress in the
Constitution.
, Unanimous Consent - Correct Answer- Legislative action taken "without objection" as a way
to expedite business; used to conduct much of the business of the Senate
Committee of the Whole - Correct Answer- A committee that consists of an entire legislative
body; used for a procedure in which a legislative body expedites its business by resolving
itself into a committee of itself.
Quorum - Correct Answer- The minimum number of members who must be present to permit
a legislative body to take official action.
Speaker of the House - Correct Answer- The presiding officer of the House of
Representatives, chosen by and from the majority party in the House.
Party Caucus - Correct Answer- A meeting of the members of a party in a legislative chamber
to select party leaders and to develop party policy. Called a conference by the Republicans.
Party Conference - Correct Answer- What Republicans call their party caucus.
Majority Leader - Correct Answer- The legislative leader selected by the majority party who
helps plan party strategy, confers with other party leaders, and tries to keep members of the
party in line.
Minority Leader - Correct Answer- The legislative leader selected by the minority party as
spokesperson for the opposition.
Whips - Correct Answer- Party leaders who work with the majority leader or minority leader
to count votes beforehand and lean on waverers whose votes are crucial to a bill favored by
the party.
Rule - Correct Answer- A precise legal definition on how government will implement a
policy.
Closed Rule - Correct Answer- A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that
prohibits any amendments to bills or provides that only members of the committee reporting
the bill may offer amendments.
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