AP Government Course Vocabulary Review UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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AP Government Course
AP Government Course Vocabulary Review
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Limited Government - CORRECT ANSWER- The idea that certain restrictions should be
placed on government to protect the natural rights of citizens.
Natural Rights - CORRECT ANSWER- Idea that all humans are...
AP Government Course Vocabulary Review
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Limited Government - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The idea that certain restrictions should be
placed on government to protect the natural rights of citizens.
Natural Rights - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Idea that all humans are born with rights: the
right to life, liberty, and property
Popular Sovereignty - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A government in which the people rule by
their own consent.
Republican - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a person advocating or supporting republican
government, conservative, left on political spectrum
Social Contract - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An agreement between the people and their
government signifying their consent to be governed
Representative Democracy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A system of government in which
citizens elect representatives, or leaders, to make decisions about the laws for all the people.
Participatory Democracy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a system of democracy in which all
members of a group or community participate collectively in making major decisions
Pluralist Democracy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A theory of democracy that holds that
citizen membership in groups is the key to political power
Elite Democracy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A political system in which the privileged
classes acquire the power to decide by a competition for the people's votes and have
substantial freedom between elections to rule as they see fit.
,U.S. Constitution - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A document that embodies the fundamental
laws and principles by which the United States is governed.
Federalist 10 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An essay composed by James Madison which
argues that liberty is safest in a large republic because many factions exist. Such diversity
makes tyranny by the majority more difficult since ruling coalitions will always be unstable.
Brutus 1 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Anti-federalists: It is impossible to have a Large
republic and have a stable government.
Articles of Confederation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A weak constitution that governed
America during the Revolutionary War.
Anti-Federalists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- people who opposed the Constitution
Federalists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- supporters of the Constitution
Democracy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A political system in which the supreme power lies
in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Faction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A group with a distinct political interest
Shay's Rebellion - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A 1787 rebellion in which ex-Revolutionary
War soldiers attempted to prevent foreclosures of farms as a result of high interest rates and
taxes
Great Compromise - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Compromise made by Constitutional
Convention in which states would have equal representation in one house of the legislature
and representation based on population in the other house
Electoral College - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A group of people named by each state
legislature to select the president and vice president
, 3/5 Compromise - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the decision at the Constitutional convention
to count slaves as 3/5 of a person for the purpose of deciding the population and determining
how many seats each state would have in Congress
Constitutional Convention - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The meeting of state delegates in
1787 in Philadelphia called to revise the Articles of Confederation. It instead designed a new
plan of government, the US Constitution.
Ratification - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Formal approval
Separation of Powers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Constitutional division of powers among
the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, with the legislative branch making law, the
executive applying and enforcing the law, and the judiciary interpreting the law
Checks and Balances - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A system that allows each branch of
government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power
Impeachment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A formal document charging a public official with
misconduct in office
Concurrent Powers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Powers held jointly by the national and state
governments.
Categorical Grants - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Federal grants that can be used only for
specific purposes, or "categories," of state and local spending. They come with strings
attached, such as nondiscrimination provisions.
Block Grants - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Federal grants given more or less automatically to
states or communities to support broad programs in areas such as community development
and social services
Mandates - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- an official order to do something
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