Mrs. Dallimore’s 2nd Quarter Exam Study Guide
Directions: Answer the following questions on loose leaf paper.
1. This major principle states that power is shared between the national government and the states.
2. This major principle was put into the Constitution to prevent any one group from gaining too much power.
3. This major principle is the sharing of powers between three branches of government.
4. What is the main function of the Legislative Branch?
5. What is the main function of the Executive Branch?
6. What is the main function of the Judicial Branch?
7. The House of Representatives and the Senate make up _____________.
8. How many total members are in the U.S. House of Representatives?
9. How many members in the U.S. House of Representatives represent Louisiana?
10. How many members are in the Louisiana House of Representatives?
11. What are the seats in the U.S. House of Representatives based on?
12. Who is the leader of the House of Representatives?
13. How many total members are in the U.S. Senate?
14. Who can impeach a government official?
15. Who is the head of the U.S. Executive Branch?
16. Who is the head of the Louisiana Executive Branch?
17. If there is a presidential election in 2016, when would the next election be held?
18. What is the highest court in the Judicial Branch?
19. What is Judicial Review?
20. This group of people helps the president make decisions.
21. How many justices are in the United States Supreme Court?
22. What power represents the shared powers between the federal and state governments?
23. What power represents the federal government?
24. What power represents the state governments?
25. What power is allowed to pass marriage and divorce laws?
26. What power is allowed to establish the postal system?
27. What power is allowed to collect taxes?
28. Who is in charge of the state of Louisiana? What’s his name?
29. Who is in charge of the city of Slidell? What’s his name?
30. Who is next in the Presidential Succession if the President and Vice-President cannot fulfill their duties?
31. Which courts in Louisiana handle more serious crimes such as murder and robbery?
32. Which court is the highest in land and has final authority?
33. Which courts handle minor infractions such as traffic violations?
34. What are legal responsibilities of citizens? Provide examples.
35. Why does the United States Constitution include a system of checks and balances within the federal government?
36. What is an example of the executive branch ‘checking’ the legislative branch?
37. What is an example of the legislative branch ‘checking’ the judicial branch?
38. What is an example of the judicial branch ‘checking’ the legislative branch?
39. How is the Louisiana preamble different than the United States Preamble?
40. Which of the following are characteristics of an effective citizen?
A. An effective citizen votes, volunteers, is charitable, and exhibits community spirit.
B. An effective citizen makes his complaints with government and society known to all of his family and friend.
41. What is a likely benefit of having a society that is educated?
A. Citizens who are educated are more likely to be literate, informed, and capable of contributing to society in many ways.
B. Educated citizens will most likely lead to increased wealth for everyone in the society.
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Which word means before recorded history?
Which is not a characteristic of Paleo Native Americans?
What is an artifact?
What is an atlatl?
Which word describes the study of past human cultures?
What is the practice of using everything the land has to offer?
What is the belief that everything has a spirit?
What is written history?
What type of animals did Paleo people hunt?
Because of the change in weather, Archaic people were
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What is the major difference between Neo Period People and Archaic Period People?
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Which word means man-eater?
Which area is still a historical site in Louisiana today?
Which site consists of 6 huge earthen ridges built in a semi-circle?
Which tribe had a complex social system and powerful rulers?
Which tribe had a giant trading center?
Which tribe is famous for making beautiful baskets?
Which tribe worships the sun?
Which tribe welcomed and traded with Europeans?
Which tribe became important French allies?
Which tribe were enemies with the French?
Which tribe were cannibals?
Why did the French want to establish a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River?
What was the final result of the Natchez Indian wars?
Who claimed the land of Louisiana for France?
Who was the first governor of the Louisiane colony?
Which of the following resulted in the death of many Native Americans at the hands of the French on LA soil?
How did Sieur d’Iberville contribute to early Louisiana?
Who was governor of Louisiane that sent for the pelicans girls?
Who was the proprietor who used both honest and dishonest methods to lure colonists to Louisiane?
Who was the last French Governor and was governor during the French and Indian war?
Which governor created the Superior Council?
Which proprietor received the first charter to Louisiane?
Which explorer discovered the Mississippi River and treated the Native Americans brutally?
Which explorer was chosen by Count Pontchartrain to lead the expedition to colonize Louisiane?
Who of the following was governor during the Era of Good Feelings?
Who traveled with his brother and assisted in building Fort Maurepas at Biloxi Bay?
Who were poor Europeans who received land grants from John Law to settle land in Louisiane?
Who were French runners of the woods that started befriending the Native Americans in Louisiane?
Who was the governor that practiced nepotism?
By signing the Treaty of Fontainebleau, what country did France give Louisiane to?
What were freed slaves with some French blood referred to?
The meaning of Creole has changed over the years. Which is not a description of Creole?
What religion regulation did slaves and slave owners have to follow under the Code Noir?
A. All slaves had to be baptized.
C. Jewish people were forbade from entering the colony.
B. Only the Catholic Church was allowed.
D. All the above.
86. What is a written grant conferring certain rights and privileges on a person or corporation?
87. Which of the following is a law of the Code Noir?
A. Slaves had to change their religion to Catholicism.
B. Slaves had to change their African names to French names once they moved to the Louisiane colony.
88. Why was Bienville sent back to France after being governor of Louisiane?
89. Who was France’s King during French’s colonization of Louisiane?
90. Who built the trading post Fort St. Jean Batiste?
91. Which of the following is the oldest permanent settlement in Louisiana?
92. What was the cause of the First Natchez War?
93. What was the cause of the Second Natchez War?
94. Which of the following explains the history of the capital of Louisiane?
95. Why wasn’t France successful in owning in Louisiane?
96. What was the Treaty of Fontainebleau?
97. What was the Treaty of Paris?
98. What happened to the North America territories after the Treaty of Paris?
99. Put the following events in order from first to last.
A. Treaty of Paris
D. Treaty of Fontainebleau
B. St. Denis establishes a trading post in Natchitoches
E. First Natchez War
C. Second Natchez War
100. Put the following events in order from first to last.
A. Iberville establishes Fort Maurepas.
C. LaSalle claims Louisiane for France.
B. DeSoto discovers the Mississippi River.
D. Columbus reaches an island in the Bahamas.