Civics Exam Review
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| show | ancient Rome and Greece
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| When U.S. citizens elect members of Congress, they are practicing.. | show 🗑
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| In a ________________ all citizens met to debate government matters and vote first hand. Example: Town Meeting | show 🗑
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| People become citizens either by birth or _______________________ which is a legal process were foreigners can become citizens. | show 🗑
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| Whose children would not automatically become U.S. citizens if born on American soil, but would be citizens of their parents home country only? | show 🗑
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| Which government job could never be held by a naturalized citizen? | show 🗑
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| show | Magna Carta
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| Which region used the plantation system for farming, relying on slave labor? | show 🗑
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| show | New England
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| show | Middle Passage
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| show | House of Burgesses
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| show | French and Indian
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| What were the first battles of the Revolutionary War, known as the “shot heard ‘round the world”? | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| Which English philosopher’s ideas about social contract theory and natural rights were used in the Declaration of Independence? | show 🗑
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| What became the slogan of the colonists in response to the unfair Stamp Act. Colonists believed they should not be subject to taxes from a government in which they had no voice. | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Paine
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| Which event led to the passage of the Coercive or Intolerable Acts, which restricted the colonists’ civil rights? | show 🗑
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| Which farmer’s rebellion showed that we needed a stronger government than the one established by the Articles of Confederation? | show 🗑
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| Why did delegates to the Constitutional Convention originally meet? | show 🗑
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| show | James Madison
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| Who were supporters of the Constitution that wanted a strong central government? | show 🗑
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| show | bill of rights
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| The Constitution would go into effect when __________ out of the original 13 states ratified it. | show 🗑
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| show | approval of 3/4 of state legislatures
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| show | New Jersey Plan
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| show | Expressed Powers
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| show | Concurrent Powers
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| show | Reserved Powers
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| The Necessary and Proper Clause allows Congress to stretch its powers to exercise... | show 🗑
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| show | Census
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| show | Gerrymander
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| show | Speaker
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| show | Franking Privilege
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| show | Pork-Barrel Project
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| completely unrelated amendments to a bill | show 🗑
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| show | cloture
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| show | pocket veto
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| What system is used to elect the president and vice president? | show 🗑
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| How do we determine each state’s number of electors? | show 🗑
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| show | House
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| Who is the only president to serve more than two terms in office? | show 🗑
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| show | Vice President
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| Who must approve presidential treaties and appointments to high-ranking positions? | show 🗑
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| The most important job of the president is to carry out the the nation’s laws as... | show 🗑
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| Who has power to declare war? | show 🗑
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| show | Ambassador
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| an agreement among a group of nations that prohibits them from trading with a target nation | show 🗑
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| a group of presidential advisers that include the heads of 15 top-level executive departments | show 🗑
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| What was the last cabinet office added in 2002 in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks? | show 🗑
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| List the three levels of federal courts. | show 🗑
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| In which types of court do federal trials and lawsuits usually begin? The only federal court to use a trial by jury. | show 🗑
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| A ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later, similar case. | show 🗑
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| How long do Supreme Court justices serve? | show 🗑
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| show | remand
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| show | Marbury v. Madison
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| The U.S. has a ______________ system of government. | show 🗑
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| show | primary
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| show | platform
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| What is the name of N.C. state legislature? | show 🗑
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| Who chooses N.C. justices and judges? | show 🗑
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| What does the lottery fund? | show 🗑
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| Who does the governor control in his commander-in-chief role? | show 🗑
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| Which court hears death penalty appeals in N.C.? | show 🗑
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| Serious crimes and civil cases involving more than $10,000 are heard in which N.C. court? | show 🗑
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| show | Code of Hammurabi
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| show | felonies
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| show | misdemeanors
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| A person accused of a crime and found not guilty may not be tried for the same crime a second time. | show 🗑
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| show | no trial by jury
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| show | rehabilitation
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| What are the qualification required by the Constitution for becoming president of the United States? | show 🗑
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| show | Miranda v. Arizonia
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| Which Supreme Court case guarantees suspects a right to a court appointed lawyer in criminal cases? | show 🗑
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| show | Command Economy
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| show | Mixed Economy
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| Expenses that remain the same each month like mortgage payments. | show 🗑
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| An assembly line worker in a plant is an example of which factor of production? | show 🗑
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| Computers man-made materials would be which factor of production? | show 🗑
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| show | What, How, and For Whom
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| What two things cause scarcity? | show 🗑
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| the cost of the next best use of your time or money when you choose to do one thing rather than another | show 🗑
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| What economic model best represents the factor and product markets? | show 🗑
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| show | Base Year
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| Which sector of the economy buys the greatest percentage of final goods as measured by the Gross Domestic Product? | show 🗑
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| What are the three basic needs? | show 🗑
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| show | Economics
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| The cost of producing one additional or extra unit. | show 🗑
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| What business strategy is demonstrated when the factory supervisor breaks a large job into small, separate tasks? | show 🗑
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| show | Henry Ford
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| show | Entrepreneur
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| Which branch of economics examines the small picture such as an individual? | show 🗑
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| Setting a minimum price that can be charged for a good or service such as minimum wage. | show 🗑
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| show | Law of Demand
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| If people have less money, and are willing to buy fewer items then the demand curve | show 🗑
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| show | Surplus
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| show | Equilibrum
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| When economic activity is strong with businesses working and selling at full capacity; highest point in business cycle. | show 🗑
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| Changes in government spending or tax policies is _____________ policy. | show 🗑
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| show | Monetary
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| show | Federal Reserve
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| show | Interest
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| Which term refers to taxes on gasoline, tobacco or alcohol? | show 🗑
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| What is the federal government’s largest source of revenue? | show 🗑
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| What is the county government’s largest source of revenue? It’s used to fund schools. | show 🗑
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| Which program pays some health care costs of elderly people? | show 🗑
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| show | Social Security
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| What occurs when a government spends more than it collects in revenue? | show 🗑
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| show | Tinker v. DesMoines
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| show | Brown v. Board
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| show | 19th Amendment
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| show | 13th Amendment
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| show | Vietnam War (draft)
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| What 5 Freedoms are protected by the First Amendment? | show 🗑
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| show | 23rd Amendment
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