The US Election Fundraising and Racial Demographics Quiz

The inability to agree on passing the 1996 federal budget.

Bill Clinton

Dobbs v. Jackson

<p>Threatening to withhold emergency funds from California during severe wildfires.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To reverse the zero tolerance policy on immigrants trying to illegally cross the border.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Obama</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1%</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Authoriza9on for Use of Military Force</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Emergency Economic Stabiliza9on Act</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hastert Rule</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>2023</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Westboro Baptist Church's right to protest outside of a military funeral, stating that their messages were protected by the First Amendment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Supreme Court ruled that owning an illegal stun gun was within the Second Amendment, highlighting the codified nature of the Constitution and the Court's power in interpreting it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Supreme Court ruled that judges cannot extend sentences beyond their statutory maximums, upholding the ruling of the New Jersey appeals court and demonstrating the Court's role in upholding federalism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bipartisanship is the cooperation and collaboration between members of different political parties, typically in relation to policy-making and decision-making.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The defense budget increased by 125% under Bush.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) saw a cut in federal funding in 2018.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ketanji Brown Jackson was the first black woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Copyrighted songs were defined as capital assets and subject to a lower tax rate.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Eric Cantor</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The North Carolina General Assembly was ruled to have used race too heavily in redrawing two Congressional districts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It failed due to a lack of support from Republican groups, but was eventually passed 217-213 without Democrat support and defeated in the Senate at 49-51.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The US Patriot Act of 2001 gave the government new powers to detain people and hold information on them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In Carpenter V United States 2018, the Supreme Court judged that acquiring cell phone location data amounts to a Fourth Amendment search and would require a warrant.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In Shelby County V Holder 2013, the Supreme Court struck down section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act 1965.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Senate voted 57-42 to confirm Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Supreme Court struck down the Medicaid provision which attempted to force states to cover some people's health insurance costs or risk losing their federal funding for Medicaid.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Supreme Court struck down Obama's use of an executive order to implement his immigration reform program on the basis that it was unconstitutional due to the cost to the states.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The purpose of Obama's Race to the Top program was to invest $4 billion into promoting school improvement on a state and local level.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Trump's executive order proposed that sanctuary cities would be at risk of losing federal grants.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>$1 billion</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>104</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>gang of 8</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The purpose of TC Energy's plans for the Keystone Pipeline was to transport oil from Canada to the United States. They abandoned these plans in 2021 due to environmental concerns and opposition from Indigenous groups and environmental activists.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Trump's executive order prohibited all US investors from purchasing or investing in securities of companies identified by the US government as 'Communist Chinese military companies'. Biden's executive order in 2021 prohibited all US investors from purchasing or investing in publicly traded securities of companies that have operated in the defense and material sector or the surveillance technology sector of the economy of the People's Republic of China.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The purpose of Trump's executive order was to suspend or eliminate different and preferential treatment for Hong Kong to the extent permitted by law. It was signed in the interest of national security, foreign policy, and economic interest of the United States.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The intention behind Trump's executive order was to ban people from certain countries from entering the US due to concerns about terrorism. It initially targeted Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen for a 90-day ban. It was later revised and rescinded, and a new version was signed to ban people from the same six majority-Muslim countries (minus Iraq) for 90 days. Eventually, another executive order was signed to ban certain nationals of Venezuela, North Korea, and the same six majority-Muslim countries.</p> Signup and view all the answers