CHAPTER 1
1. What is the foundation of the legal structure in the United States?
2. Know about the types of government on page 12
3. Know about the types of government on page 12
4.Who was the chief advocate of divine-right monarchy, or the idea that monarch and emperors ruled according to God's will?
5. Who wrote Two Treatises on Civil Government in 1869, arguing against divine right of the monarchy and proposing the existence of inalienable individual rights.
6. Know everything there is to know about indirect democracy on page 15
7. Which value is considered the most essential American value? p. 15
8. What does the idea of consent of the governed argue?
9. Understand the changing ethnic makeup in the United States.
10. Understand the different political ideologies discussed in the book.
CHAPTER 2 UNDER
1. How many foundation bodies are described in the United States Constitution?
2. Who formed the Massachusetts Committee of Correspondence in 1772?
3. What are the tow central principles of the Declaration of Independence?
4. Know about the constitutional structure withing the Articles of Confederation
5. Understand Shays rebellion
6. Whose work, entitled The Spirit of the Laws, provided the concept of separation of powers later adopted by the framers of the Constitution?
7. What did the Connecticut Compromise produce?
8. Marbury vs. Madison
9. Know the writers of the Federalist papers, and prominent leaders of the Anti-federalists.
10. How many amendments have been ratified since 1789?
CHAPTER 3
1. What were the three different types of government that the colonists experienced, and what order where they in chronologically?
2. How many local governments are there in the United States?
3. Understand the necessary and proper clause, and the concept of implied powers.
4. The impact of which event on Americans led to the passage of the Social Security Act of 1935?
5. Which presidents are closely associated with new federalism, or devolution?
6. Which three constitutional amendments have been most influential in shaping the national state power relationship? p.99
7. Passed in 1913, which constitutional amendment powerfully enhanced the national governments ability to raise money?
8. Which 1923 court case saw state government opposition to conditions withing national grants?
9. Over time, the number and specificity of national grant-in-aid conditions has done what? p.102
10. In 2009 and 2010, how much state revenue was derived from national grants? (this answer is in fraction form)
CHAPTER 4
1. The first _____ amendments of the Constitution explicitly limited the power of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the national government. p.113
2. Civil liberties advocates worry that ______ is causing Americans to give up their most precious freedoms.
3. The constitution reflects a tension between which of the following tow ideas?
4. During the Civil War, which legal right did President Abraham Lincoln suspend as a means of silencing political dissidents?
5. What do the religion clauses of the First Amendment achieve?
6. Which case saw the Supreme Court rule against the subsidization of parochial schools?
7. Which case, decided in 1965, first firmly established the right to privacy?
8. In which places has the Court ruled that there is no expectation of privacy?
9. Since September 11, 2001, the federal government's powers of surveillance and observance have ____?
10. The practice of transfer of custody of suspected terrorists to other nations for imprisonment and interrogation is known as?
CHAPTER 5
1. Which tests do the courts apply to determine which unequal treatment is legal?
2. Between 1810 and 1850, how many people managed to escape slavery via the Underground Railroad?
3. Which 1857 Supreme Court decision set the stage for the Civil war by mobilization the abolitionist movement?
4. Which of the following tactics was/were used in southern states during the Jim Crow era to deny African Americans the right their voting rights
5. Which Supreme Court decision ended the federal government's support for separate but equal practices in the southern states?
6. ____, part of the the Civil Rights Act of 1964, establishes a standard of equality in employment opportunity, and establishes a body of law that regulates legal employment practices. p160
7. The Declaration of Sentiments, signed in 1848 called for women in the United States to be granted which of the following rights?
8. Which is he largest minority group in the United States?
9. Which US president was the first to define and use the term affirmative action?
10.. Colleges and universities use affirmative action policies to ensure a student body that is diverse in what?
KEY TERMS FOR CHAPTERS 1-5 (TAKEN FROM THE SIDE NOTES OF THE CHAPTERS)
There will be 10 of these chosen for a total of 20 points
1. Efficacy
2. Political Engagement
3. Social Contract
4. Liberty
5. Constitution
6. Bill or Rights
7. Federalists
8.. Anti-Federalists
9. Federal System
10. Implied powers
11. Full faith and credit clause
12. Grant-in-aid
13. Total incorporation
14. Clear and present danger test
15. Establishment clause
16. Rendition
17. Inherent characteristics
18. Black Codes
19. White primary
20. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
2 SHORT ANSWER ESSAY QUESTIONS - (meaning no more than a full page)
2 questions 10 points each
FOR MAXIMUM GRADE
- The answers to these questions require a working knowledge of the actors that were involved.
- The answers will display a working knowledge of the content that will be discussed.
- There is no minimum or maximum length for a good short essay. More is not always better, but your answer should have statements to back up your answer.
1. Explain what the differences were between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists.
2. What was the Connecticut Compromise?
EXTRA CREDIT 5 POINTS!
Please explain separation of powers and checks and balances.
