Government chapter 6 test

True

(True or false ) The necessary and proper clause is frequently cited when the government wishes to use implied powers.

False

(True or false) A state may tax national institutions within its borders.

True

(True or false) Changes in American law, society, and economy during the nation's history have helped alter the balance of federalism in favor of the national government.

True

(True or false) Congress may not create a new state out of a currently existing state without the consent of that state's legislature.

True

(True or false) During World War I, the national government took control of the railroads and expanded its regulatory powers over corporations and industries.

True

(True or false) Each state may decide whether or not to require a sales tax.

True

(True or false) Giving federal aid to state and local governments has contributed to the rapid increase in the national debt.

True

(True or false) In the early years of the Republic, states were more important than national government in everyday life.

False

(True or false) New Deal and Great Society legislation were attempts to reduce national involvement in state issues.

False

(True or false) Revenue sharing under Nixon and Reagan was funded by a surplus in the Treasury

False

(True or false) States are required to accept federal aid.

Sixteenth

The ___ Amendment allowed an income tax to be instituted.

Tenth

The ___ amendment states that "powers not delegated to the United States ... nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people:'

Elastic Clause

The ___ is an alternate name given to the necessary and proper clause.

Laws of state governments

The supremacy clause establishes that all of the following comprise the highest law of the land except

the Sunbelt

What is the name for the region of the country, consisting of the old Confederate states and the Southwest, that is experiencing growth in population and new industry?

Dual Federalism

What term refers to a system in which the national and state levels are sovereign within their own spheres?

Make treaties, count its own money, and declare war

What three things may a state not do according to Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution?

1. minority-hiring quotas 2. matching funds required 3. environmental-protection guidelines (all of the above)

Which of the following is an example of restrictions that may come with categorical grants?

Reserve powers

Which powers are neither given to the national government nor denied to the states?

implied powers

Which powers of the national government are not specifically stated in the Constitution but are derived from those that are listed?

delagated powers

Which powers of the national government are specifically written into the Constitution?

National and state

Which types of governments are mentioned in the Constitution?

The civil war

Which war was partially caused by disagreement regarding the rights of states and the powers of the federal government?

Federalism

___ is a system in which governmental power is divided into two or more levels

grants-in-aid

any transfer of money from the federal government to state or local governments

formula grants

federal aid governed by demographic information in a given area

revenue sharing

federal aid in which the national government allocates some of its tax proceeds to the states; used from 1972 to 1986

Project grants

federal aid that allows the national government greater discretion in deciding how much aid will be given to certain programs

Block grants

federal aid that combines several categorical grants under a general umbrella

categorical grants

federal aid that is given to state and local governments for a specific purpose and that comes with certain guidelines

All states receive the same proportion of federal aid.

what is not true of federal funding?

delagated powers

Powers that grant authority and define the limit of the national government's authority are

New deal

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs addressing poverty and unemployment resulting from the Great Depression were known as the ___

Great Society

President Lyndon B. Johnson's programs addressing voting rights, education, and health care were known as the ___

John Marshall

Under which early chief justice did the Supreme Court's decisions do much to expand the powers of the national government?

national government and state government

What are the two divisions of power in America's federal system?

The frost belt

What is the name for the region of the country experiencing population loss and crumbling industry?