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AP US History Latest Update with Certified Solutions Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) An agreement between Portugal and Spain which declared that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal. St. Augustine (1565) The oldest continually inhabited European settlement in United States territory. Mercantilism European government policies of the 16th-18th centuries designed...

Unit 2 Terms AMSCO AP Government and Politicsbicameral - correct answers The division of a legislature into two separate assemblies (or houses) pork barrel spending - correct answers The use of government funds for projects designed to please voters or legislators and win votes gerrymandering - correct answers Manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party marginal seats - correct answers Political districts in which candidates elected to the House of ...

AP Comparative Government Terms | Questions and Correct Answers | Latest Update 2024/2025 Authoritarian - Answer -a government based on coercion rather than political legitimacy, such as China Bicameral - Answer -a legislative body with two houses; Nigeria, UK, Russia, and Mexico all have bicameral legislatures Causation - Answer -the casual relationship between cause and result, typically in court, in such a case as an injury Charismatic Legitimacy - Answer -legitimacy derived from th...

AP GOVERNMENT, AMSCO CHAPTER 3, THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCHBicameral - correct answers Two house legislature; resulted from a dispute between small and large states, each wanting a different form of representation Seventeenth Amendment - correct answers Ratified in 1913; broadened democracy by giving the people of the state the right to elect their senators House of Representatives - correct answers the lower house of Congress, consisting of a different number of representatives from each state...

AP GOV QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS States hold sovernty, articles of confederation are an example - ANS-What does confederal mean Only a national level of government - ANS-What is a unitary system? printing money • regulating interstate and international trade • making treaties and conducting foreign policy • declaring war - ANS-What are national government applied powers? -issue licenses -regulation of interstate business - ANS-What are State powers States must return fugitives to st...

AP Gov Unit 3 Part 1 Pre-Test Exam 2024. C - CORRECT ANSWER Which of the following constitutional clauses was most relevant in the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade (1973) ? A Commerce clause B Free exercise clause C Due process clause D Equal protection clause A - CORRECT ANSWER A group unhappy with the draft distributes a memo to members encouraging physical confrontations with draft agents. The leaders of the group are promptly arrested. Which of the following Supreme Court cases...

AP Gov Chapters 1-2 Qs&As due process - ANS-have to be informed of all charges and heard before judge before able to lose LLP anti-federalist - ANS-against constitution, want weaker national government, states' rights, liberty only secure in small republics where rulers close to and checked by citizens articles of confederation - ANS-weak constitution the governed the US during the revolution, loose friendship between states authority - ANS-right to use power bicameral legislature - AN...

AP Gov Required Documents MASTER| FULL Question BANK| Correctly Solved 2024/2025 What is the primary purpose of the **Constitution of the United States**? To establish the framework for the federal government and outline the powers and rights of the government and the citizens. How did the **Declaration of Independence** influence American political thought? It emphasized individual rights and the idea that governments derive their powers from the consent of the governed. What arg...

AP Comparative Government Terms | Questions and Correct Answers | Latest Update 2024/2025 Authoritarian - Answer -a government based on coercion rather than political legitimacy, such as China Bicameral - Answer -a legislative body with two houses; Nigeria, UK, Russia, and Mexico all have bicameral legislatures Causation - Answer -the casual relationship between cause and result, typically in court, in such a case as an injury Charismatic Legitimacy - Answer -legitimacy derived from th...

AP GOPO Review Final Exam Spring 2024 Anti-Federalist Opponents of the Constitution who desired a federal government more like the one under the Articles of Confederation. They wanted a Bill of Rights added before ratifying the U.S. Constitution Articles of Confederation The first plan of government for the colonies after the American Revolution which redefined the former colonies as states Bill of Rights The first 10 Amendments added to the Constitution in 1791 Checks and Balances a s...