US History US Constitution Review Guide

US History US Constitution Review Guide

Directions: On a note card, write the question(s) on one side of the card and the answer(s) on the other side.

1. Who are the Enlightenment Thinkers? What are their core ideas?
2. Who was John Locke? What were his ideas? What did he have to do with the Declaration of Independence?
3. Who is Baron de Montesquieu? Which of his ideas to we see in our government today?
4. Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau? What is a social contract?
5. Who was Thomas Paine? What did he write? What were the arguments he presented in his writing?
6. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? What did it say? Who was blamed for the problems of the Colonies? What are unalienable rights?
7. What is republicanism? What is a republic? Where does the power lay in a republic?
8. What are the Articles of Confederation? What was the structure of government under the Articles? What powers did Congress have? What were its weaknesses?
9. What is the Critical Period in American History?
10. What is state sovereignty? How is that connected to the Articles of Confederation?
11. What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
12. What was the Northwest Ordinance?
13. Who was Daniel Shay? What was he upset about? What did he do?
14. Why was the Constitutional Convention called? When was it called? Where did it take place? Which state did not come to the Constitution Convention? What were most of the delegates like (meaning what class of men were they)?
15. Who is called the “Father of the Constitution?”
16. What is the Great Compromise?
17. What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
18. Which of the Patriots did not attend the Convention?
19. What does each of three branches do? Which branch is bicameral (name both houses and what they are called together)?
20. What is the term for the House of Representatives? How does their term make them more responsive to their constituents needs?
21. What does it mean to ratify something?
22. What does it mean to amend something?
23. Who are the Antifederalists? What were their complaints?
24. Who are the Federalists? What are the Federalist Papers?
25. How many states needed to ratify the Constitution?
26. What is the Bill of Rights? Be familiar with the rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
27. What are the three branches of government?