Unit II AP Review Multiple Choice o

Unit II AP Review

Multiple Choice o 40 Questions o 30 Minutes

Legislative Branch o 14 Multiple Choice Questions o Committees o Leadership o Enumerated Powers o The Elastic Clause/Implied Powers o Non-legislative Powers o Reapportionment/Re-districting/Gerrymandering o The Power of the Purse o Upper House/Lower House o Incumbency o Requirements o Chamber Differences

Executive Branch o 11 Multiple Choice Questions o Veto/Line Item o Constitutional Powers o Evolutionary Powers o Constitutional Checks on Presidential Power o Power & Prestige o US v Nixon o Amendments: 12, 25 o War Powers Act o Electoral Mandate

The Federal Bureaucracy o 7 Multiple Choice Questions o The Cabinet o The EOP o The growing importance of the White House staff o The NSC o The Federal Bureaucracy o Hatch Act o Pendlton Act o Presidential Control o Reduction o Iron Triangle

The Federal Judiciary o 8 Multiple Choice Questions o Senatorial Courtesy o Dual Court System o Judicial Activism v. Restraint o How cases get to the Court o Marbury v. Madison o Precedent/Stare Decisis o Opinions o Original v Appellate Jurisdiction

FRQ o Overarching FRQ that deals with each of the three branches of the federal government. (6) n Think Checks and Balances

FRQ o Deals with the Marbury v. Madison and the establishment of Judicial Review. (4)

Explain Both FRQ’s ask you to explain. o • Exploring causal relationships between political phenomena o • Should Identify and Discuss patterns in the relationships between concepts