SSS- Establishing a New Country and Government Study Guide
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30 Multiple Choice Questions (4 points, 120 total)
Establishing a New Country and Government
1. Explain the three different ways governments can distribute power
2. Explain Articles of Confederation
3. List the main weakness of the Articles of Confederation
4. List greatest achievement of the Articles of Confederation
5. Know importance Newburgh Conspiracy and Shays’s Rebellion
6. Explain major disagreements between Federalist and Anti-Federalist
7. Explain “Bundle of Compromises” and its breakdown between North and
South states
8. Explain Great Compromise
9. Explain 3/5 compromise
10.Explain Slave Trade Compromise
11.Explain Commerce Compromise
12.Explain Compromise on Presidency
13.Know date of Constitution
14.Explain 1st amendment
15.Explain 2nd amendment
16.Explain why politicians supported Ratification of the Bill of Rights once
proposed
17.Know who is the “Father of the Constitution”
The Constitution Handbook
18.Define checks and balances
19.Define republicanism
20.Define popular sovereignty
21.Define judicial review
22.Define Separation of Powers
23.Define Federalism and how it is shown in the amendment process
24.Define Enumerated Powers
25.Know main responsibility of the Legislative Branch
26.Know main responsibility of the Executive Branch
27.Know main responsibility of the Judicial Branch
28.Explain process and term of a Supreme Court Justice