AP US Government: Final Exam
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2 - ✔✔Number of senators from each state
bicameral - ✔✔A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses
Reapportionment - ✔✔the process of reassigning representation based on
population, after every census
2 years - ✔✔House of Representatives term
6 years - ✔✔Senate term
Revenue bills - ✔✔Tax bills (must originate in the House) to raise money
for the government
The Senate - ✔✔Confirms SCOTUS nominees
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,Impeachment Trial - ✔✔Occurs after the House of Representatives have
voted to impeach; occurs in the Senate to determine whether to remove
from office
60 - ✔✔Votes needed to end a filibuster in the Senate
Senate Majority Leader - ✔✔The chief spokesperson of the majority party
in the Senate, who directs the legislative program and party strategy.
Bill - ✔✔a proposed law
22nd Amendment - ✔✔Limits the president to two terms.
Department of State, Department of Treasury, and Department of War
(Defense) - ✔✔First three executive cabinets created by George Washington
35 years old - ✔✔how old you have to be to be president
Attorney General - ✔✔the head of the department of justice
The Pendleton Act - ✔✔Passed after assassination of Pres. Garfield; Reform
measure that established the principle of federal employment on the basis
of open, competitive exams and created the Civil Service Commission
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, 15 - ✔✔Number of cabinet departments
Government corporations - ✔✔A government agency that operates like a
business corporation, created to secure greater freedom of action and
flexibility for a particular program.
Examples: Amtrak and USPS
Iron Triangle - ✔✔A close relationship between an bureaucratic agency, a
congressional committee, and an interest group
district court - ✔✔Lowest level of fed. courts, where fed. cases begin &trials
are held
trial courts - ✔✔Original jurisdiction, where cases begin.
appellate courts - ✔✔Courts hearing cases appealed from a lower court.
life - ✔✔Term of a federal judfe
Rule of Four - ✔✔At least four justices of the Supreme Court must vote to
consider a case before it can be heard
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2 - ✔✔Number of senators from each state
bicameral - ✔✔A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses
Reapportionment - ✔✔the process of reassigning representation based on
population, after every census
2 years - ✔✔House of Representatives term
6 years - ✔✔Senate term
Revenue bills - ✔✔Tax bills (must originate in the House) to raise money
for the government
The Senate - ✔✔Confirms SCOTUS nominees
1
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,Impeachment Trial - ✔✔Occurs after the House of Representatives have
voted to impeach; occurs in the Senate to determine whether to remove
from office
60 - ✔✔Votes needed to end a filibuster in the Senate
Senate Majority Leader - ✔✔The chief spokesperson of the majority party
in the Senate, who directs the legislative program and party strategy.
Bill - ✔✔a proposed law
22nd Amendment - ✔✔Limits the president to two terms.
Department of State, Department of Treasury, and Department of War
(Defense) - ✔✔First three executive cabinets created by George Washington
35 years old - ✔✔how old you have to be to be president
Attorney General - ✔✔the head of the department of justice
The Pendleton Act - ✔✔Passed after assassination of Pres. Garfield; Reform
measure that established the principle of federal employment on the basis
of open, competitive exams and created the Civil Service Commission
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, 15 - ✔✔Number of cabinet departments
Government corporations - ✔✔A government agency that operates like a
business corporation, created to secure greater freedom of action and
flexibility for a particular program.
Examples: Amtrak and USPS
Iron Triangle - ✔✔A close relationship between an bureaucratic agency, a
congressional committee, and an interest group
district court - ✔✔Lowest level of fed. courts, where fed. cases begin &trials
are held
trial courts - ✔✔Original jurisdiction, where cases begin.
appellate courts - ✔✔Courts hearing cases appealed from a lower court.
life - ✔✔Term of a federal judfe
Rule of Four - ✔✔At least four justices of the Supreme Court must vote to
consider a case before it can be heard
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