3.4 - The National Government and the States

When was the only time in history where the use of the republican-form guarantee was utilized in the US?

• After the Revolutionary War

• When CA was admitted to the Union

• Post Civil War and until several states ratified the 13th-15th amendments

• During the Civil Rights Movement

True or False: Even in the 1780s when the Constitution was being written, it was clear that an invasion or attack on one State would be an invasion or attack on all the other states?

• True

• False

True or False: President Dwight Eisenhower and President John F. Kennedy both had to order federal troops to end rioting/domestic violence without the permission of the State involved?

• True

• False

What was the most important measure passed by the Congress of the Confederation (under the AOC) and had to deal with the creation of new States in the union?

• Enabling Act

• The Constitution

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Ordinance of 1785

Which of the following states was NOT created from parts of already existing states?

• Maine

• Kentucky

• West Virginia

• Tennessee

• California

Match the following descriptions with the types of Federal Grants appropriated today:

• Project grants

• These grants are made for specific, closely defined purpose.

• Block grants

• Made for specific projects and reasons by States

• Categorical grants

• Broadly defined purposes and more freedom for the states to use.

While no State can enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation with a foreign country, but it can enter which of the following?

• Interstate compacts

• Unofficial treaty

• Extradition

• Full Faith and Credit Clause

Match the following defintion and description with the clause/act:

• Supremacy Clause

• "Given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other state."

• Act of admission

• No State can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those of another state

• Enabling act

• Act creating a new state that needs to be signed by the President

• Privileges and Immunities Clause

• Constitution is the supreme law of the land

• Full Faith and Credit Clause

• People of a territory to frame a proposed State constitution

True or False: The Full Faith and Credit Clause only applies to civil, NOT, criminal cases.

• True

• False

The legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one State can be returned to that State, even if they are in another State.