Unit 1

Question 1

What historical event led to the downfall of the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 1

Shays Rebellion

Question 2

Why is James Madison Considered the “Father of the Constitution?

Answer 2

He wrote and drafted the Virginia Plan. (The framework of the Constitution)

Question 3

What is John Locke’s view on social contract theory?

Answer 3

Individuals give up a small measure of liberty for the protection of the government.

Question 4

What form of government allows people to select representatives to govern and make laws?

Answer 4

Representative Democracy

Question 5

What was the purpose of the Bill of Rights?

Answer 5

To ensure American rights concerning the government.

Question 6

What great empire did the colonies break away from to become its own independent country?

Answer 6

Great Britain (The British Empire)

Question 7

Why was taxation the central issue in the imperial rupture between the American Colonies and Great Britain?

Answer 7

Taxation without representation

Question 8

How many States originally made up the United States?

Answer 8

13

Question 9

What year did the United States Declare its independence?

Answer 9

1776

Question 10

Authoritarianism

Answer 10

When one person only controls government institutions

Question 11

Democracy

Answer 11

Political Authority is vested in the people (Republic/Direct)

Question 12

Communism

Answer 12

Shared collective ownership (Both political and Economic)

Question 13

Socialism

Answer 13

Economy is directed my elected representatives

Question 14

Totalitarianism

Question 15

Explain the elite type of Democracy

Question 16

Explain the pluralist type of Democracy

Question 17

Explain the participatory types of Democracy

Question 18

What was our first constitution called?

Answer 18

The Articles of Confederation

Question 19

What are the key characteristics of the Articles of Confederation?

Question 20

What was the most fundamental weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

Question 21

Who was named the president of the Constitutional Convention?

Question 22

What city was the Constitutional Convention held in?

Question 23

Which of the original states did not attend the Convention?

Question 24

What were the key components of the Virginia Plan?

Question 25

What did the Connecticut Compromise accomplish?

Question 26

Liberals

Question 27

Conservatives

Question 28

Loose Constructionism

Question 29

Strict Constructionism

Question 30

Federalists

Question 31

Anti-Federalists

Question 32

Executive Checks on the Legislative Branch

Question 33

Executive Checks on the Judicial Branch

Question 34

Judicial Checks on the Legislative Branch

Question 35

Judicial Checks on the Executive Branch

Question 36

Legislative Checks on the Executive Branch

Question 37

Legislative Checks on the Judicial Branch

Question 38

Who is a member of both the executive and legislative branches?

Question 39

Define the following clause: Privileges and Immunities

Question 40

Define the following clause: Full Faith and Credit

Question 41

Define the following clause: Interstate Extradition

Question 42

What are examples of concurrent powers of the national government?

Question 43

What is the Major theme of The Federalist No. 10

Question 44

What is the Major theme of Brutus 1

Question 45

Identify the significance of McCulloch v. Maryland

Question 46

Identify the significance of United States v. Lopez

Question 47

Apportionment

Question 48

Redistricting

Question 49

The Third Amendment

Question 50

The Tenth Amendment

Question 51

The Fourteenth Amendment