American Government Clep Questions
and Answers 2025
100 - ANSWER-Seats in the Senate
2 types of bureaucrat - ANSWER-political appointees and civil servants
2 years - ANSWER-House of Reps serve?
3 Models of Bureaucracy - ANSWER-Weberian Model; Acquisitive Model; Monopolistic
Model
3/5 Compromise - ANSWER-slaves could be counted as a small population when voting
4 years - ANSWER-President serves?
435 - ANSWER-Seats in the House of Reps
6 years - ANSWER-Senators serve?
Acquisitive Model - ANSWER-Expansionism but competitive
Agency capture - ANSWER-Agency capture is the defect whereby government
agencies established to regulate industries end up being influenced and controlled by
the companies the agencies were supposed to regulate.
American exceptional-ism - ANSWER-the idea that the U.S. differs from the rest of the
world
Annapolis Convention - ANSWER-called Congress to make the Articles to make
Congress stronger
Antifederalists - ANSWER-believed that the Constitution took away power from the
states, thereby taking power away from the people
Article 1 - ANSWER-Legislative Branch
Article 2 - ANSWER-Executive Branch
Article 3 - ANSWER-Judicial Branch
Block grants - ANSWER-money given for a fairly broad purpose with few strings
attached
, bureaucracy - ANSWER-a way of administratively organizing large numbers of people
who need to work together
Bureaucracy means - ANSWER-rule by desks or offices
Categorical grants - ANSWER-money given for specific purpose that comes with
restrictions concerning how the money should be spent; 2 types
Changing the constitution - ANSWER-is called an amendment
Charter - ANSWER-specifying its powers and responsibilities
Checks and Balances - ANSWER-A system that allows each branch of government to
limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power
Civil service - ANSWER-the federal employees hired for their knowledge and
experience; constitutes most of the federal bureaucracy
Civil Service Commission - ANSWER-the first central personnel agency for the federal
govt.
Commerce clause - ANSWER-the authority to regulate interstate commerce
Concurrent powers - ANSWER-powers held by both states and the national government
Conformism - ANSWER-trying to be like everyone else
Congress - ANSWER-has the power of the purse
Congress achieved - ANSWER-Negotiating and signing the Treaty of Paris (1783) to
end revolutionary war
Congress achieved - ANSWER-Passing the Northwest Ordinances (1787) to create a
system for admitting new states to the union
Congress can - ANSWER-make laws
Constitution - ANSWER-rules that determines how power will be used legitimately in a
state
Constitutional (Philadelphia) Convention - ANSWER-created an entirely new stronger
natl. govt.
Cooperate Federalism - ANSWER-1945-1969 The States and National both rely on
each other
and Answers 2025
100 - ANSWER-Seats in the Senate
2 types of bureaucrat - ANSWER-political appointees and civil servants
2 years - ANSWER-House of Reps serve?
3 Models of Bureaucracy - ANSWER-Weberian Model; Acquisitive Model; Monopolistic
Model
3/5 Compromise - ANSWER-slaves could be counted as a small population when voting
4 years - ANSWER-President serves?
435 - ANSWER-Seats in the House of Reps
6 years - ANSWER-Senators serve?
Acquisitive Model - ANSWER-Expansionism but competitive
Agency capture - ANSWER-Agency capture is the defect whereby government
agencies established to regulate industries end up being influenced and controlled by
the companies the agencies were supposed to regulate.
American exceptional-ism - ANSWER-the idea that the U.S. differs from the rest of the
world
Annapolis Convention - ANSWER-called Congress to make the Articles to make
Congress stronger
Antifederalists - ANSWER-believed that the Constitution took away power from the
states, thereby taking power away from the people
Article 1 - ANSWER-Legislative Branch
Article 2 - ANSWER-Executive Branch
Article 3 - ANSWER-Judicial Branch
Block grants - ANSWER-money given for a fairly broad purpose with few strings
attached
, bureaucracy - ANSWER-a way of administratively organizing large numbers of people
who need to work together
Bureaucracy means - ANSWER-rule by desks or offices
Categorical grants - ANSWER-money given for specific purpose that comes with
restrictions concerning how the money should be spent; 2 types
Changing the constitution - ANSWER-is called an amendment
Charter - ANSWER-specifying its powers and responsibilities
Checks and Balances - ANSWER-A system that allows each branch of government to
limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power
Civil service - ANSWER-the federal employees hired for their knowledge and
experience; constitutes most of the federal bureaucracy
Civil Service Commission - ANSWER-the first central personnel agency for the federal
govt.
Commerce clause - ANSWER-the authority to regulate interstate commerce
Concurrent powers - ANSWER-powers held by both states and the national government
Conformism - ANSWER-trying to be like everyone else
Congress - ANSWER-has the power of the purse
Congress achieved - ANSWER-Negotiating and signing the Treaty of Paris (1783) to
end revolutionary war
Congress achieved - ANSWER-Passing the Northwest Ordinances (1787) to create a
system for admitting new states to the union
Congress can - ANSWER-make laws
Constitution - ANSWER-rules that determines how power will be used legitimately in a
state
Constitutional (Philadelphia) Convention - ANSWER-created an entirely new stronger
natl. govt.
Cooperate Federalism - ANSWER-1945-1969 The States and National both rely on
each other
