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CLEP AMERICAN GOVERNMENT PRACTICE TEST with Questions and Answers
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CLEP AMERICANGOVERNMENT PRACTICE TEST
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General Federal grants for whole area of public policy; gives the recipient flexibility
- Correct answer-Block Grant
Short-Lived political party that served as a vehicle for Teddy Roosevelt's 1912
campaign for president - Correct answer-Bull-Moose party
Tax on the income made from the sale of real estate or stock - Correct answer-Capital Gains
tax
Federal Funds available to states and localities earmarked for a specific purpose - Correct
answer-categorical grant
State gathering of political party members to select candidates for office -
Correct answer-Caucus
, Collects and analyzes information relevant to the national security if the United States. -
Correct answer-Central Intelligence Agency
Approach to the presidency in which the executive branch is merely an administrative arm
of Congress - Correct answer-Chief Clerk Model
The president's main legislative liaison and staff organizer - Correct answer-Chief of Staff
the geographical area covered by a federal court of appeal - Correct answer-circuit
When activists break a law that they consider unjust as a public challenge to the law -
Correct answer-civil disobedience
Individual liberties on which the government may not infringe - Correct answer-civil
liberties
Federal law preventing racial discrimination by any private business receiving federal money
or engaging in commerce with an interstate component - Correct answer-Civil Rights of 1964
Banned discrimination in housing - Correct answer-Civil Rights of 1968
Standard used to judge speech restrictions that are allowed only when an exercise of free
speech would directly threaten public safety - Correct answer-Clear and present danger
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