Unit 5 Exam Ap Government Brush

In May of 2015, a federal appeals court ruled that the National Security Agency's collection of Americans' phone records was in violation of the USA Patriot Act. What core value was involved in the national debate regarding the surveillance program?

Liberty versus stability and order

A public assistance program designed to provide healthcare for poor Americans and funded by both the states and national government is called?

Medicaid

Provides hospitalization insurance for elderly and permits older Americans to purchase inexpensive coverage for doctor fees and other medical expenses is called?

Medicare

The economic theory states that the supply of money is the key to a nation's economic health, with too much cash and credit in circulation producing inflation

Monetarism

The federal government's manipulation of the supply of money in private hands is called?

Monetary policy

What happens to the electorate when the media does daily coverage of elections focuses primarily on the newest poll results?

The electorate will be less able to accurately compare the policy platforms of candidates running in the election

The income level below which families are considered poor is called?

The poverty line

Barrack Obama's campaign tried to get young voters involved because?

Younger voters tend to vote liberal

What is a exit poll?

A poll that asks voters at randomly selected voting places who they voted for so that election results can be predicted more quickly

What does the exit poll bring criticism?

Because exit polls enable news agencies to project the winners of election before any votes are counted or before some parts of the country have finished voting

According to data from the 2010 U.S Census and the Statistical Abstract of the U.S, what is the single largest demographic in the U.S

Christian

Government programs providing benefits to qualified individuals regardless of needs is called?

Entitlement programs

The use of the federal budget-taxes, spending, and borrowing-to influence the economy is called?

Fiscal Policy

The increase of the earth's temperature that is occurring due to the result of carbon dioxide that is produced when fossil fuels are burned collection in the atmosphere and trapping energy from the sun is called?

Global Warming

The 2010 U.S Census shows that the largest minority group in the U.S is?

Hispanic Americans

What policy is most likely gonna cause tension between the competing values of individualism and equality of opportunity

Implementing affirmative action programs

A rise in price of goods and services are called?

Inflattion

What is a random sample?

It gives a person an equal chance of being in the sample

On November 2nd, 2014 a Gallup poll reported that 51% of Americans support legalizing marijuana, while 47% oppose the legalization. The reported margin of sampling error was +/- 4 percent . What inference can be made from this poll?

It is unclear whether more people support marijuana legalization than oppose it.

The commanding officers of the U.S. armed forces who advise the president on military policy are known as?

Joint chief of staffs

What is the theory emphasizing that government spending and deficits can help the economy deal with its ups and downs?

Keynesian economic theory

A flow of money that is measured over time is called?

income

The federal agency that coordinates data and information gathering on other countries to organize America's security is called?

The Central Intelligence Agency

The law that is aimed at combating air pollution?

The Clean Air Act

This group regulates lending practices of banks and is the mean means for making monetary policy

The Federal Reserve System

What is the best example of the core value of a limited government

The United States Constitution delegating specific powers to Congress

In a public opinion poll, a polling company uses an online survey tool to randomly contact respondents who did not have telephone lines in addition to contacting people over the phone. What best explains this decision?

The company wanted to ensure that the sample of the population was truly random

A tax by which the government takes a greater share of the income of the rich than the poor is called?

Progressive tax

A tax by which the government taxes all income levels at the same rate is called?

Proportional (flat) tax

The government official who is the key advisor to the president on foreign policy is called?

Secretary of state

The theory arguing that the key task for fiscal policy is to stimulate supply of goods as by cutting taxes is called?

Supply-side Economics

A tax that is added to the price of the imported goods is called?

Tariff

The percentage of the labor force seeking work but is unable to find a job is called?

Unemployment rate

The organization created in 1945 and currently includes 193 member nations, with a central peacemaking mission and programs in areas including economic development, education, welfare, etc

United Nations

The amount of money and/or assets that is measured at a particular point in time is called?

Wealth