AP Politics Unit 5 Study Guide

Chapter 17
1. Mixed economy
2. Unemployment
3. Consumer Price Index
4. Capitalism
5. Republican/Democrat economic concerns
6. Laissez-faire
7. Keynesian
8. Supply-side economics
9. Monetarism
10. Federal Reserve’s relation to money in circulation
11. Fiscal policy
12. Recent antitrust case
13. Federal Trade Commission
Chapter 18
14. Social welfare policies
15. Wealth v. Income
16. Poverty line
17. Feminization of poverty
18. Progressive tax
19. Regressive tax
20. Entitlements
21. Medicare
22. Transfer payments
23. Largest and most expensive social welfare programs
24. Infant mortality rate in the US
25. Access to health insurance is linked to what
Chapter 19
26. Medicaid
27. Clean Air Act
28. EPA
29. Environmental impact statements
30. Wilderness preservation
31. Dirtiest fuel
32. Controversial energy source
33. Superfund
Chapter 20
34. UN
35. UN Security Council
36. NATO
37. Multinational corporations
38. Secretary of State
39. Secretary of Defense
40. Monroe Doctrine

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 41. Isolationism
42. Cold War
43. McCarthyism
44. Marshall Plan
45. Détente
46. “Guns and butter”
47. Partisan views on military spending
48. Economic sanctions
49. Widening gap between rich and poor nations.

Free Response Prompt:

Entitlement Programs (funding? Issues with funding)

• Social Security
o Threats to SS
There will be a graph with this question

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