1. What was the government's role in laissez-faire economics and the U.S government's role in the economy from the 1930s on?
2. What is the difference between regressive and progressive taxes?
3. What was the "mandatory and discretionary spending" regulation during and after the Great Depression?
4. What was the social safety net?
5. What does distributive policy and redistributive policy means?
6. What are the two presidencies thesis?
7. Can one side take precedence?
8. What is fiscal policy and monetary policy? What is the charge of the Federal Reserve Board?
9. What are two major social welfare programs? What constitutes an entitlement program?
10. What is neo-isolationism and selective engagement?
11. Why is shared power idea associated with U.S. foreign policy?
12. What is thebalance of power? What may cause an imbalance? What is thebalance of trade? Can an imbalance occur?