Follow the Money: Local Budgets — Unit test Answers

Which goal of US foreign policy is most responsible for helping to create markets for US products and jobs for US workers?

Read the scenario.Sandra is working on her proposal for a community garden. She decides to interview residents of her city to get their opinions on the issue she has identified.

Which scenario best describes the effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act?

Read the scenario.Several counties in a state have crumbling roads. Some of the roads are state roads. Others are stretches of the interstate highway system. The state gets money from the US Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Program to help repair the interstate highway. The state uses money from state taxes to repair the state roads.

Liam is unsure about a source he is using to research his policy idea about pollution. He looks for information about who funded the source. Which of these funding groups would suggest that the source might be biased?

Who rules on a case in a court of appeals?

Read the excerpt from the US Constitution.The President . . . shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.–Article II, Section 2, US Constitution

What does the president have the power to do as the commander in chief?

Which form of government is closest to the people it serves?

Which is an example of a public good?

What is one way Congress can check the executive branch?

What does it mean that the US Congress is a bicameral legislature?

Read the scenario.Garfield County has one large city, Centerville, and four smaller towns. Seaside and Westport are along the coast. Oakville and Rowan are inland at the edge of the mountains. Seaside’s city council passes a law that no building along the shoreline can be more than two stories high.

Read the scenario.Annie has been caught spraying graffiti on a store window in Chicago. The city assigns her case to the Restorative Justice Community Court.

The United States is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Read the section from the US Constitution. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; —Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution

Read the scenario.A representative from Maryland’s third congressional district introduced a bill to expand Americans’ access to the ballot box and curb voter suppression. The bill was read by members of the House, who agreed to send it to committee. Some changes were made to the bill. Then it was then sent back to the whole House for a vote, where it passed.

Read the passage by Mercy Otis Warren, an American who authored plays, poems, and articles. It is presumed the great body of the people unite in sentiment with the writer of these observations. . . . They wish to see the Confederated States bound together by the most indissoluble union, but without renouncing their several sovereignties and independence, and becoming tributaries to a consolidated fabric of aristocratic tyranny.—Mercy Otis Warren, Observations on the new Constitution

The duties of a US ambassador to a foreign nation include

Review the chart.