Jane Harman(D) (4)
Study Guide Answers
A1. 3
A2. Gray Davis
A3. Primary election
A4. Steven Kuykendall (R)
A5. State level
A6. Open seat
B1. 36th CD
B2. A district known to vote in favor of both major parties
B3. 600,000
B4. Yes
B5. No
B6. A district whose majority vote is for the same party as one of the candidates, creating a safe district for
that candidate
C1. California primary election
C2. Which party candidates will advance to the general election
C3. Candidate
C4. Who gains office
C5. November
C6. Upset by the underdog
C7. Loyal party voter/straight ticket voter
C8. Split ticket voter
C9. Crossover voter
D1. 5
D2. 2
D3. 3
D4. 0
D5. 1
D6. 4
D7. 1
D8. 1
D9. 3
E1. Gerrymandering
E2. Apportionment
E3. No
E4. Supreme Court
E5. Every ten years
E6. Greater than 99% accurate
E7. Every ten years
E8. Yes
E9. Nonpartisan committees/proportional representation
F1. Democratic Party
F2. Democrats, Republicans
F3. A political system characterized by two major parties
F4. By taking appealing positions on social issues
F5. Yes
F6. Decreasing party loyalty, increasing independence from major parties
F7. The rise of minor parties
G1. Democrat
G2. Change against power/hierarchy
G3. The individual
G4. More
G5. Yes
G6. Action to overcome the effects of racial and ethnic discrimination
G7. Pro-choice
G8. Gun control legislation/ grant citizenship to children of illegals/ opposition of school vouchers/ labor
union support
G9. No
G10. Yes
G11. No
G12. No
G13. Employees
G14. Democrat
G15. Democrat
G16. Roman Catholic/Jewish/Muslim/Buddhist
G17. No
H1. Steven Kuykendall
H2. Republican Party
H3. Steven Kuykendall
H4. No
H5. Male
H6. A white Anglo-Saxon Protestant
H7. White-collar
I1. Pressure groups
I2. Interest/pressure groups
I3. US Chamber of Commerce/National Federation of Business
I4. CTA, NEA
I5. Sierra Club
I6. EMILY’s List
J1. All
J2. Contacting/contributing/gain office/ social movement
J3. Protest/picket/rally/march/boycott/strike
J4. TV, newspaper
K1. Federalists
K2. Madison, Washington, Marshall, Hamilton, Adams, Franklin
K3. Jefferson, Jackson
K4. Anti-Federalists
K5. Bankers
K6. Farmers/debtors/those on the frontier
K7. In the hands of small farmers and debtors
K8. Anti-Federalist (Democratic-Republicans)
K9. 1812
K10. GOP
K11. Grand Old Party
K12. 1865
K13. John C. Fremont
K14. Abraham Lincoln
K15. Former slaves, abolitionists
K16. 1929
K17. FDR, New Deal
K18. Creating many social benefit programs
K19. New Deal Coalition
K20. Republicans
L1. Legislative
L2. A legislature made of two chambers
L3. House of Representatives, Senate
L4. A legislature made of only one chamber
L5. Tradition/history, and to settle a dispute over population representation
L6. 2 years
L7. 52
L8. 435
L9. Denny Hastert (R)
L10. Majority party (currently the republicans)
L11. No
M1. Article 1, Section 8
M2. Begin tax/spending bills, impeach president
M3. Impeachment
N1. Committees
N2. Their respective parties
N3. Yes
N4. Joint, conference, special
N5. Seniority rule
N6. Rules Committee
O1. War for Independence
O2. Shays’s Rebellion
O3. Alliance of cooperating states (states hold almost all governmental power, a central government holds
little)
O4. Madison
O5. Federation
O6. Publius (James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay)
O7. Yes
O8. 2
O9. Madison
O10. 1789
O11. 2 years
P1. Constitution
P2. Article 1, Section 8
P3. Reserved powers
P4. Powers not given to the federal government, but not given to the state
P5. Education/marriage/divorce/inheritance/elections/some law
P6. Powers controlled by all levels
Q1. Separation of powers
Q2. 3
Q3. Makes the laws
Q4. Carries out those laws
Q5. Interprets how the laws should apply in certain cases