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AP Gov All Unit Review questions andanswesrs 2024
First Amendment - 5 freedoms: speech, press, religion, assembly, petition
Second Amendment - Right to bear arms (to protect the people against a government that becomes too
powerful)
Third Amendment - No quartering of soldiers
Fourth Amendment - No unreasonable searches and seizures without a warrant; right to privacy
Fifth Amendment - Due process, eminent domain, no double jeopardy, right to remain silent (you can't
be forced to testify against yourself) and the right to be tried by a grand jury for a capital offense
Sixth Amendment - Right to a speedy trial
Seventh Amendment - Right to a trial by a jury of your peers; no lawsuits under $20
Eighth Amendment - No cruel and unusual punishment
Ninth Amendment - Any rights not explicitly listed are automatically given to the people. (Meant to
appease the Anti-Federalists)
Tenth Amendment - Any powers not explicitly listed are automatically given to the states.
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Eleventh Amendment - When states sue other states, it automatically goes before the Supreme Court.
Residents of one state cannot sue another state. Another country can't sue the US and vice verse.
Twelfth Amendment - Creates a ticket for the presidency where the president and VP are elected
together.
Thirteenth Amendment - Abolishes slavery and gives congress the power to enforce abolition through
legislation.
Fourteenth Amendment - Defines citizens as people born in the US and prohibits the states from denying
due process and equal protection under the law. Also states that the value of the debt must always be
paid and honored, and cannot be questioned. Also excludes women from voting.
Fifteenth Amendment - Voting rights will not be based on race.
Sixteenth Amendment - Establishes an income tax
Seventeenth Amendment - Direct election of senators
Eighteenth Amendment - Prohibition
Nineteenth Amendment - Women's suffrage
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Twentieth Amendment - Shortens the lame duck period by moving the presidential inauguration from
March to January.
Twenty-First Amendment - Ends prohibition by repealing the 18th amendment
Twenty-Second Amendment - Limits the president to two terms in office
Twenty-Third Amendment - Washington DC is not a state, but gets 3 electoral votes.
Twenty-Fourth Amendment - Outlaws poll taxes
Twenty-Fifth Amendment - Outlines the direct line of succession for the presidency
Twenty-Sixth Amendment - Lowers the voting age to 18
Twenty-Seventh Amendment - Congress can't give itself a pay raise.
High-tech politics - A politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers and the political agenda
itself are increasingly shaped by technology
Mass media - Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and other means of popular
communication that reach and profoundly influence the masses
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Media events - Events that are purposely staged for the media and that are significant just because the
media are there
Press conferences - Meetings of public officials with reporters
Investigative Journalism - The use of in-depth reporting to unearth scandals, scams, and schemes, at
times putting reporters in adversarial relationships with political leaders
Print media - Newspapers and magazines, as compared with electronic media
Electronic media - Television, radio, and the Internet, as compared with print media
Narrowcasting - Media programming on cable TV or the Internet that is focused on a particular interest
and is aimed at a particular audience
Selective Exposure - The process through which people consciously choose to get the news from
information sources that have viewpoints compatible with their own
Chains - Groups of newspapers published by media conglomerates and today accounting for over four-
fifths of the nation's daily newspapers circulation
Beats - Specific locations from which news frequently emanates. Most top reporters work in a particular
beat.
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