•Total points 25•Use your book

Ch. 1 1. What is civics? The study of rights and duties of citizens. 2. The American population is diverse. Explain? The population is made of many people of different races,

genders, religions, and beliefs. 3. How does one become a U.S. citizen? One must be born in the US or become naturalized.• 4. Compare and contrast illegal and legal aliens? Legal and illegal aliens are noncitizens. Legal aliens have been

naturalized while illegal aliens have not and are residents of the US illegally.

5. What is a representative democracy? It is when citizens elect representatives to make laws, and

govern for them.

Ch. 21. What is the Magna Carta? A document that kept nobles’ rights, and rights to landholders.

Later, equal protection under the law and trial by jury were added. It, finally, limited the monarch’s power

2. List 3 natural rights? Life, Liberty and Property.3. Why did many early people settle in America? To escape prosecution for their different beliefs.4. Describe the triangular trade route? The route was for slave trade throughout Europe, Africa, and

the Americas.5. Why was the D.O.I. written? It was written to create independence for the colonies in

America.

The Declaration of IndependenceWrite the Preamble:

List 3 Grievances

List 3 Signers of the Declaration

Ch. 31. Name of the first constitution of the United

States of America?

2. List a weakness of the A.O.C.?

3. What was the Great Compromise?

4. List the 3 branches of government…

5. The writers of the Constitution divided power of government into three types, what are they?

Constitution of the United StatesWrite the Preamble:

What is the Elastic Clause?

Ch. 41. List 5 Freedoms in the First Amendment…

2. How many amendments are in the B.O.R.?

3. What does suffrage mean?

4. Describe the Brown Decision?

5. List 3 accomplishments of MLK?

Ch. 51. What is the difference between duties and

responsibilities?

2. List 2 responsibilities…

3. List 2 duties…

4. Governments are bureaucracies– what does this mean?

5. How do Americans volunteer? List examples…

Ch. 61. What are the two houses of Congress?

2. How has congressional apportionment changed over the last 200 years?

3. How does Congress remove an official from office?

4. List qualifications for Senators & Representatives…

5. How does a bill become a law?

Ch. 71. According to the U.S. Constitution, who can

become president of the USA?

2. List duties of the President of the USA…

3. A nation’s plan for dealing with other nations is called?

4. A group of presidential advisers that include the heads of the top-level executive departments?

5. What is the civil service system

Ch. 81. The authority to hear and decide a case is

known as?

2. Describe the tenure for a federal judge?

3. The United States Supreme Court has how many members?

4. What court case gave the Supreme Court Judicial review?

5. What court case permitted “separate but equal” facilities for whites and African Americans?

Ch. 91. An organization of individuals with broad, common

interests who organize to win elections?

2. Two major political parties today?

3. List a third party…

4. Geographic area that contains a specific number of voters?

5. Most states hold a primary where only the declared members of a party are allowed to vote for that party’s nominees. What is this primary called?

Ch. 10 Voting and Elections1. In most states what are the requirements for voting?

2. If you cannot get to the polls on election day, how can you still vote?

3. A way for citizens to approve or reject a state or local law?

4. To promote a particular person or idea and to influence voters to choose one candidate over another is what technique?

5. Politicians who have already been elected to office are known as?

Electoral CollegeWhat is it?Include a mapControversies?

Ch. 111. The term for the ideas and attitudes that most

people hold about a particular issue or person

2. Mass media includes?

3. Can the government censor material before it is published?

4. What is libel?

5. Provide an example of an interest group?

Ch. 121. What is a federal system of government?

2. What is a bicameral legislature?

3. In most states what are the qualifications for becoming governor?

4. The court of last resort in most states?

5. How can judges be removed from office?

Ch. 13 1. Most large cities operate under what mayor-system?

2. Central city and surrounding suburbs is known as?

3. Normally a state’s largest territorial and political subdivision?

4. Where the county courthouse is located?

5. Smallest unit of local government?

Ch. 141. What is public policy?

2. In setting priorities, a community must decide what it ______________ most?

3. Law signed in 2001, to hold schools accountable for student learning?

4. When was the EPA established?

5. The preservation and protection of our natural resources?

Ch. 151. What was the first known system of written law?

2. Party that brings charges?

3. Individual or group accused of a crime?

4. What amendments guarantee due process?

5. A judge’s authorization – specifying the exact place to be searched and describing what objects may be seized?

Checks and Balances

Executive

Legislative Judicial

Draw arrows to one another explaining checks and

balances p. 88