Final Study Guide
Tips:
1. Review the material and answer the questions in the study guide.
2. Review old quizzes.
3. Review your notes, but be specific to the study guide material.
4. Do not try to cram the last night.
5. Remove distractions while you study. Try to get some sleep.
Unit 1 Content:
Chapter 1-
1. What are the four functions of government?
2. Explain the differences and similarities of the different types of government. Be able to place each type of government on the government spectrum discussed in class. Be able to Define all of the different types of government.
3. What is the State of Nature? How does it help argue the idea behind the need to enter a society with the help of a body politic?
4. How does America define citizenship in which amendment?
5. What problem(s) emerge from majority rule? What problem(s) emerge from plurality?
6. What is the Enlightenment? How did the Enlightenment act as a catalyst for the American Revolution?
Vocab:
Civics political State of Nature
Republic Public Policy Enlightenment
Majority rule plurality budget
Chapter 2-
1.What was required for the Magna Carta to establish the first official rights? How did it create a precedent for political rights?
2. Compare and contrast the common law court system to the statutory law system.
3. Why did the French and Indian War lead to the taxes on the colonists by Great Britain?
4. Why does John Locke’s social contract principle contribute to American Revolutionary thought? Use the Declaration of Independence as evidence.
5. What were four main problems with the Articles of Confederation?
Vocab:
Habeas Corpus legislature Common Law System
Mercantilism Social Contract Statutory Law System
A constitution bicameral unicameral
State sovereignty precedent
Chapter 3-
1. Compare and contrast the Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, and the Great Compromise.
2. Explain James Madison’s idea of the tyrannical majority.
3. Why did smaller states like Rhode Island fear a strong central government?
4. What issues divided Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
5. How is the U.S. Constitution flexible, and why is its malleability important to American contemporary society?
6. How does the Necessary and Proper clause expand the power of the federal government?
7. Why is separation of powers necessary for checks and balances?
8. What are the different powers created by the U.S. Constitution (expressed, implied, concurrent, and reserved)?
Vocab:
Checks and balances federalism separation of powers
Necessary and Proper Clause Supremacy Clause
Strict interpretation loose interpretation popular sovereignty
June 21, 1788
· Put the following events/documents in chronological order:
o Leviathan, U.S. Bill of Rights, Federalist #10, Magna Carta, U.S. Constitution, Common Sense, Articles of Confederation, Second Treatise of Government, Glorious Revolution, Declaration of Independence, English Bill of Rights
Unit 2 Content:
Chapter 4-
1.What is the difference between positive and negative rights?
2. Be able to summarize the following amendments: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 22 and 26.
3. How did Plessy v. Ferguson support the Jim Crow laws? What is “separate, but equal?” How did Brown v. Board of Education Topeka, KS strike down Jim Crow laws?
4. How do we create amendments? (We discussed this in chapter 3, and the answer is located in chapter 3 Powerpoint under article 5. Please see if you have any questions)
Vocab:
Rights positive rights negative rights
Petition due process Jim Crow Laws
Chapter 6-
1. What are the different committees and what are their functions?
2. If a bill raises revenue (creates taxes), which House must in originate in? Why?
3. What are the powers and limits of the legislative branch?
Vocab:
Census gerrymandering Speaker of the House
Bill of Attainder Ex Post Facto Laws lobbyists
Filibuster cloture (vote) pigeonhole
Pocket veto
Chapter 7-
1. What are the 4 goals of foreign policy and what are the tools used to achieve those goals?
2. How do political appointees lead to the spoils system?
3. What are the benefits and problems with bureaucracy?
4. How does the Electoral College function?
Vocab:
Pardon bureaucracy political appointees
Civil service workers spoils system merit system
NATO
Chapter 8-
1. What is judicial review, and how did Marbury v. Madison act as a precedent for judicial review?
2. What do the different opinions mean?
3. What are the reasons (driving forces) behind court decisions?
4. What are the different types of jurisdiction?
Vocab:
Jurisdiction exclusive jurisdiction appellate jurisdiction
Stare decisis original jurisdiction petition of certiorari
Rule of four precedent judicial review
Dissenting opinion concurring opinion majority opinion
ALSO:
* Process for a Bill to become a Law…in BULLETS (Chapter 6)
* Process for the Supreme Court to hear a case…in BULLETS (Chapter 8)
* Structure of the Judicial Branch (Draw It!) (Chapter 8)
· What are the precedents of the following cases?
o Tinker v. Des Moines
o Plessy v. Ferguson
o Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS
o McCulloch v. Maryland
o Gibbons v. Ogden
o Marbury v. Madison