AP Government
Ebert
Semester I Final Exam – Review
Chapter 2
§ What is a constitution?
§ What were the characteristics of the government under the Articles of Confederation
§ What was the stated purpose of the Constitutional Convention? Who were the key attendees?
§ Virginia Plan
§ New Jersey Plan
§ Connecticut Compromise
§ checks and balances
§ electoral college
§ Federalists
§ Anti-Federalists
§ Bill of Rights
§ First Amendment
§ Fifth Amendment
§ Tenth Amendment
§ Seventeenth Amendment
§ formal amendment
§ informal amendment
§ judicial review
§ Marbury v. Madison
§ What are the ways that each branch of government "checks and balances" the others?
§ How does our current constitution differ from the government under the Articles of Confederation?
§ What institutions are specifically described in the Constitution?
Chapter 3
§ federalism
§ federal system of government
§ Tenth Amendment
§ concurrent powers
§ necessary and proper clause / elastic clause
§ full faith and credit
§ unfunded mandates
Chapter 4
§ civil liberties
§ Barron v. Baltimore
§ Fourteenth Amendment
§ incorporation (selective incorporation)
§ Lemon v. Kurtzman
§ prior restraint
§ exclusionary rule
§ Mapp v. Ohio
§ Miranda v. Arizona
§ plea bargaining
§ Roe v. Wade
§ What does the "wall of separation" doctrine refer to?
Chapter 5
§ Fourteenth Amendment
§ Plessy v. Ferguson
§ Brown v. Board of Education
§ Civil Rights Act of 1964
§ poll tax
§ White primary
§ affirmative action
§ What is the significance of the Fourteenth Amendment with regard to civil rights?
Chapter6
§ Why are young Americans less politically active?
§ political ideology
§ What policies are liberals likely to endorse?
§ What policies are conservatives likely to endorse?
Chapter 7
§ What is the focus of the media during a presidential campaign?
Chapter 8
§ What is the organizational structure of the two major parties in the United States?
§ What is a critical election? What is party realignment?
§ Where do the two major parties stand on critical issues (i.e., abortion, capital punishment, nationals defense, etc.)
§ What groups tend to support each of the two major parties?
Chapter 9
§ What are political action committees? What role do they play in elections?
§ What has lead to the proliferation of political action committees? What type of groups have contributed the most to this trend?
Chapter 10
§ About what percentage of the electorate votes in presidential elections? In elections of all types?
§ What are the characteristics of the electoral college? How does the electoral college system impact elections and campaigning?
§ Which groups typically have the highest voter turnout?
Chapter 11
§ What is the pluralist theory? Elite theory? Hyperpluralist theory?
§ In what way to lawmakers rely on lobbyists? How do lobbyists attempt to influence legislators?