American Government CLEP Exam | Questions & Answers (100 %Score) Latest Updated
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Early Immigration - Western and northern Europe.
Second Wave - Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe; before and after World
War II
Recent Immigration - Large numbers of people from Latin America and Asia
Machine Politics - an organizational style of local politics in which party bosses traded
jobs, money, and favors for votes and campaign support
Liberty - Freedom for people to do what they want
Limited government - places relatively few restrictions on it's citizens' freedom.
Laissez-faire capitalism - government that places relatively few restrictions on its
citizens' freedom
Equality - treated the same as everyone else
Political equality - equality in political decision making: one vote per person, with all
votes counted equally
Equality of opportunity - Giving people an equal chance to succeed.
Popular Sovereignty - rule by the people
Majority Rule - the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make
decisions binding on the whole group
Tyranny of the majority - majority would ignore the basic rights of the minority
Individualism - a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance
and personal independence
Rugged individualism - the willingness of individuals to stand along and struggle long
and hard to survive and prosper
Conformism - trying to be like everyone else
Unity - the quality of being united into one
, Diversity - difference, variety
Multiculturalism - embrace diversity and learn about others cultures
government - is viewed as a necessary evil
Political efficacy - belief that one's actions can make a difference in govt. and that the
govt. listens to normal, everyday people
American exceptional-ism - the idea that the U.S. differs from the rest of the world
Divine Providences - The idea that America has been chosen by God to be a beacon to
the world.
Just principles - Unlike most states, the US was founded on ideas and principles, not by
conquest
Geography and resources - The great wealth of resources and relative isolation of the
US for much of it's history has made America unique among most other countries in the
world
Diversity - American mix of cultures and traditions is the source of American strength.
Founding Fathers - Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington,
Alexander Hamiton, John Adoms, James Madison
Constitution - rules that determines how power will be used legitimately in a state
Declaration of Independence - 1776; all men are created equal
Inalienable right - a right that all people in the world have that no one can take away
Congress achieved - Negotiating and signing the Treaty of Paris (1783) to end
revolutionary war
Congress achieved - Passing the Northwest Ordinances (1787) to create a system for
admitting new states to the union
Shay's Rebellion - Heavy taxes and big debt, showed how weak the Natl. Govt. was.
Constitutional (Philadelphia) Convention - created an entirely new stronger natl. govt.
Annapolis Convention - called Congress to make the Articles to make Congress
stronger
Framers - wealthier and better educated than the average American
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