Assignment Part 1:
Chapter 17: Domestic Policy
Question 1: Compare the main strengths of Roosevelt's New Deal program with the main strengths of Johnson's Great Society program.
Question 2: Describe the four-stage policy-making process in passing the Water Quality Improvement Act of 1970.
Chapter 18: Economic Policy
Question 3: Describe the debt ceiling and how it impacts the budget-making process.
Question 4: Explain the difference between discretionary spending and mandatory spending.
Assignment Part 2:
Chapter 19: Foreign and Military Policy
Question 1: Explain the differences between isolationism and containment as a foreign policy. Provide and example of each.
Question 2: Based on the text, (1) define foreign policy and (2) list the goals of U.S. foreign policy.
Chapter 20: American Democracy: Then & Now
Question 3: Describe checks and balances under the New System.
Question 4: Describe the concept of power and how it has evolved in both the Old System and New System of government.