Question 1

As the United States began to focus its attention toward the ______, the rights of ______ received less and less attention and protection.

Accepted Answer

A)  Pacific Ocean; African Americans 
B)  eastern seaboard; the states 
C)  northwest territories; individual citizens 
D)  Southwest; Hispanic Americans

Question 2

The most important financial tool of cooperative federalism is the use of federal ______.

Accepted Answer

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Question 3

Under a ______ system, the structures of government are placed entirely in the hands of a national government.

Accepted Answer

A)  federal 
B)  confederal 
C)  unitary 
D)  monarchy

Question 4

What did America's heartland experience during the entire decade of the 1930s?

Accepted Answer

A)  a period of agricultural prosperity 
B)  the worst drought in American history 
C)  social and political unrest 
D)  a transition from agriculture to industrialism

Question 5

While John Marshall's Supreme Court affirmed national power under the Necessary and Proper Clause and the Commerce Clause, it did so with an eye toward ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  future court rulings 
B)  public opinion 
C)  legislative authority 
D)  executive privilege

Question 6

How are the Commerce, Supremacy, and Elastic Clauses used in the course of American federalism? What advantage, if any, does the federal government receive from the use of these clauses?

Accepted Answer

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Question 7

The case of Plessey v. Ferguson established a long-lasting tradition of "separate but equal" facilities in the United States.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Marijuana is considered a Class I narcotic under which of the following federal laws?

Accepted Answer

A)  the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 
B)  the Comstock Act of 1873 
C)  the Volstead Act of 1919 
D)  the Food and Drug Act of 1906

Question 9

In order to battle the effects of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt called for expanded ______ power.

Accepted Answer

A)  legislative 
B)  judicial 
C)  executive 
D)  bureaucratic

Question 10

Defining the relative power of the two levels of government as well as how closely they are intertwined has occurred through the ______ process.

Accepted Answer

A)  executive 
B)  legislative 
C)  judicial 
D)  political

Question 11

Though not explicitly part of the federal structure, ______ governments also act in the political space to protect their own interests.

Accepted Answer

A)  national 
B)  state 
C)  interstate 
D)  local

Question 12

The most significant expansion of national power through the use of categorical grants-in-aid in the post-New Deal era was under Lyndon Johnson's _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  Great Society 
B)  New Deal 
C)  Broad Horizon 
D)  Grand Contract

Question 13

Which term describes the efforts made to return authority for federal programs back to the states?

Accepted Answer

A)  evolution 
B)  devolution 
C)  revolution 
D)  resolution

Question 14

Under a ______ system of government, powers are shared between the national government and the states.

Accepted Answer

A)  federal 
B)  confederal 
C)  unitary 
D)  democracy

Question 15

Following the Civil War, the Supreme Court emerged as a defender of African American Civil Rights.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Which of the following was a driving force for the nation moving toward cooperative federalism?

Accepted Answer

A)  Slavery had been outlawed by the Constitution. 
B)  American corporations grew too powerful for states to manage by themselves. 
C)  The Civil War was imminent and northern states were afraid of losing the war. 
D)  Women and African Americans had gained the right to vote.

Question 17

What is the name of the most significant economic crisis in the U.S. history?

Accepted Answer

A)  Great Depression 
B)  Grand Recession 
C)  Dust Bowl 
D)  Stock Market Crash of 1929

Question 18

What is one of the primary tools that the federal government can use to achieve its policy objectives within the states?

Accepted Answer

A)  the Commerce Clause 
B)  grants-in-aid 
C)  the Supremacy Clause 
D)  cooperative policy development

Question 19

What term describes when the power of the government is equally divided between states and the nation?

Accepted Answer

A)  coercive federalism 
B)  unitary federalism 
C)  dual federalism 
D)  cooperative federalism

Question 20

In the 1830s, South Carolina Senator John Calhoun argued for the rights of states to ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  decide form themselves the issue of slavery 
B)  secede from the Union 
C)  nullify federal laws 
D)  maintain sovereignty over the national government

Exam 3: Federalism: the Changing Boundaries Between the Nation and the States

As the United States began to focus its attention toward the , the rights of received less and less attention and protection.