Final Study Guide
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Review the material and answer the questions in the study guide.
Review old quizzes.
Review your notes, but be specific to the study guide material.
Do not try to cram the last night.
Remove distractions while you study. Try to get some sleep.
Unit 1 Content:
Chapter 11. 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
Republic
Majority rule
political
Public Policy
plurality
State of Nature
Enlightenment
budget
Chapter 21.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
Mercantilism
A constitution
State
legislature
Social Contract
bicameral
sovereignty
Common Law System
Statutory Law System
unicameral
precedent
Chapter 31. 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
Necessary and Proper Clause
Strict interpretation
June 21, 1788
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federalism
Supremacy Clause
loose interpretation
separation of powers
popular sovereignty
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 41.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
Petition
positive rights
due process
negative rights
Jim Crow Laws
Chapter 61. 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
Bill of Attainder
Filibuster
Pocket veto
gerrymandering
Ex Post Facto Laws
cloture (vote)
Speaker of the House
lobbyists
pigeonhole
Chapter 71. 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
Civil service workers spoils system
NATO
political appointees
merit system
Chapter 81. 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
Stare decisis
Rule of four
Dissenting opinion
exclusive jurisdiction
original jurisdiction
precedent
concurring opinion
appellate jurisdiction
petition of certiorari
judicial review
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