The claims of the conservative Tea Party focused on

A) the president wanting to repeal the Fourteenth Amendment birthright to citizenship.
B) a denunciation that racial inequality continued to exist.
C) reducing the overbearing power the Obama administration was giving to the states.
D) the growth of the federal government and immigration policies.
E) banning free trade agreements with foreign nations.

Tea Party

A grassroots Republican movement that emerged in 2009 named for the Boston Tea Party of the 1770s. The Tea Party opposed the Obama administration’s sweeping legislative enactments and advocated for a more stringent immigration policy.

Fourteenth Amendment

1868 constitutional amendment that guaranteed rights of citizenship to former slaves, in words similar to those of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

Federal Government

The federal government is the national level of government, with powers divided between it and the individual states, as outlined in a country's constitution.