Test #1 Study Guide

Based on Chapters 1-3

Early Colonists in North America

What principle of government did the Magna Carta create?
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• keys of British government borrowed by Colonists

1. _________________________
2. _________________________
3. _________________________

• Colonial government consisted of

1. _________________________
2. _________________________

• King George III tightens control because

1. ________________________
2. _________________________

• Acts that angered colonists (there are many)

• How did King George III policies unite the colonists?

Declaration of Independence

• Opening words "_________________________

• Natural rights

1. _________________________
2. _________________________
3. _________________________

Consent of governed means what:

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• Grievances Against King George III

• Resolution: says what?

Articles of Confederation
 • Problems facing writers
• Problem #1
• Solution
• Problem #2
• Solution
• Weaknesses of the Articles

1. __________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________
4. __________________________________________________
5. __________________________________________________

• Articles mentioned in We the People and relationship to US Constitution

• II-
• V-
• VIII-
• IX-
• XIII-

Constitutional Convention

• Basic rules:

1. _________________________
2. _________________________

• Four resolution

1. _________________________
2. _________________________
3. _________________________
4. _________________________

• 2 proposed plans for the legislature

1. _________________________
2. _________________________

• Compromises

1. _________________________
2. _________________________
3. _________________________

• Be able to demonstrate understanding of the system of checks and balances. Be

familiar with the the visual on p. 66 in your textbook United States Government:
Democracy in Action.
US Constitution

• Opening words "_________________________

• Purposes of the Constitution

1. _________________________
2. _________________________
3. _________________________
4. _________________________
5. _________________________
6. _________________________

• Article

I-Legislative Branch

• Requirements/term
• House
• Senate
• Enumerated powers (Section 8)
• "elastic clause"

II-Executive Branch

• Requirements/term
• Expressed powers (section 2 and 3)

III-Judicial Branch

• term
• allows for creation of lower courts
• defines treason

IV-Relations Among the States

• extradition
• fugitive-slave clause

V-Amending Process

• in congress
• state approval

VI-National Supremacy

• all debt taken on by National Government

• supremacy clause
• oath but no religious test
 VII-Ratification

• approval by how many states needed?

• Why is Article I much larger than the others?

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• Know the requirements, length of term, selection process for Representatives in

the House, Senators, and Presidents
• Know the enumerated powers
• The vague and specific powers of the President
• how is treason defined? Prosecuted?
• Amendments
• Bill of rights (p. 86) (there will be a matching section on the test)
• know basics of each
• everyday situation in which rights could be violated
• Amendments 11-27 (p. 88)
• States sued by others
• 11
• Vice President
• 12, 25
• Civil War Amendments
• 13, 14, 15
• Income tax
• 16
• elections
• 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26
• Alcohol
• 18, 21
• Pay raises
• 27
• Five most important Presidential Issues (specific to your government class)

Terms: limited government, representative government, Constitution, Legislature,

separation of powers,
boycott, embargo, popular sovereignty, federalism, checks and balances, judicial
review, enumerated powers, elastic clause,