American Government
Midterm Study Guide – Chapters 1 - 4
1. What is Anarchy?
2. What is a Government?
3. What is a Nation?
4. What is a State?
5. What is a Country?
6. What is Sovereignty?
7. What is Divine Right theory of the origins of the state?
8. What is Social Contract theory of the origins of the state?
9. What are the functions of government?
10. What is the evolution theory of the origins of the state?
11. What is the force theory of the origins of the state?
12. What is a unitary system of government?
13. What is a confederation?
14. What is a federal system of government?
15. What is a Constitution?
16. What is a Constitutional government?
17. What is an authoritarian government?
18. What is a totalitarian government?
19. What is a dictatorship?
20. What is a oligarchy?
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21. What is a monarchy?
22. What is a democracy?
23. What is a republic?
24. What is a direct democracy? Representative democracy?
25. What are the principles of democracy?
26. What is rule of law?
27. What is transparency?
28. What does majority rule with minority rights mean?
29. What is economics?
30. What is capitalism?
31. What is a free market?
32. What is free enterprise?
33. What is laissez-faire? Who developed this theory?
34. What is a mixed economy?
35. What is Socialism?
36. What is democratic socialism?
37. What is a command economy?
38. Who are the bourgeoisie?
39. Who are the proletariat?
40. What is communism? Who developed this theory?
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41. What is limited government? What document established this concept in
England?
42. What does levy mean?
43. What is a representative government?
44. What is a charter?
45. What did the English Bill of Rights provide for people?
46. Who was Thomas Hobbes and John Locke? What theories did they establish?
47. What are natural rights?
48. What is revenue?
49. What is an embargo?
50. What is a boycott?
51. What are human rights?
52. What was the Albany Plan?
53. Why did the colonies have trouble unifying?
54. What events led to the Declaration of Independence?
55. What decisions were made in the First Continental Congress? Second?
56. What are the main parts of Declaration of Independence?
57. What does it mean to ratify?
58. What is discontent?
59. What is a unicameral congress? Bicameral?
60. What is currency?
61. What is a tariff?
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62. What is a creditor?
63. What is a treaty?
64. What were the pros and cons of the Articles of Confederation?
65. What was significant about Shay’s Rebellion?
66. What is interstate commerce?
67. What is extralegal?
68. What were the major plans and compromises at the Constitutional
Convention?
69. What was the major debate between federalists and anti-federalists?
70. What were the federalist papers?
71. What is an article?
72. What is an amendment?
73. What is the structure of the U.S. Constitution?
74. What is popular sovereignty?
75. What is republicanism?
76. What is separation of powers? Why is this important?
77. What are checks and balances? Why is this important?
78. What are enumerated powers?
79. What is the elastic clause?
80. What is jurisdiction?
81. What is judicial review? What court case established this?
82. What are the three branches of government? What is each branch
responsible for?
83. What is a convention?
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84. What does it mean to repeal?
85. What is incorporation doctrine?
86. What is a militia?
87. What is probable cause?
88. What is eminent domain?
89. What is impeachment?
90. How can the Constitution be amended? Proposed and ratified.
91. What is the Bill of Rights?
92. What is the Supremacy Clause?
93. What are the different levels of government?
94. How do state governments get their power?
95. What is federalism?
96. What are delegated powers?
97. What are expressed powers?
98. What are implied powers?
99. What are reserved powers?
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What are concurrent powers?
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