AP Government
Mr. Hechter
Terms and Objectives Questions
Be sure you understand the terms.
Comprehensively answer each of the objective questions.
Chapter 3 terms:
1. Block grants
2. Categorical grants
3. Cooperative federalism
4. Devolution
5. Dual federalism
6. Elastic clause
7. Enumerated powers
8. Extradition
9. Federalism
10. Fiscal federalism
11. Formula grants
12. Full faith and credit
13. Gibbons v. Ogden
14. Implied powers
15. Intergovernmental relations
16. McCulloch v. Maryland
17. Privileges and immunities
18. Project grants
19. Supremacy clause
20. Tenth Amendment
21. Unitary government
Chapter 3 objectives questions:
1. Describe the three basic forms of governmental structures – federalism, unitary, and
confederacy.
2. Identify and describe the ways in which the Constitution determines the power of state
and national governments.
3. Why is the relationship of local governments to the states considered to be a unitary
arrangement?
4. What is the significance of how the American federal system decentralizes politics in the
United States?
5. Examine how the supremacy clause and the Tenth Amendment lead to divergent views of
the scope of powers of the state and national governments.
6. Discuss the importance of the principle of implied powers developed by the Supreme
Court in McCulloch v. Maryland?
7. What is the relationship between implied powers and enumerated powers?
8. Describe the importance of the Civil War and the civil rights movement in developing
national supremacy over the states.
9. Compare and contrast dual federalism and cooperative federalism and give examples.
10. Discuss the idea of fiscal federalism and assess the role that federal money plays in state
policies.