Review for First Test in Govt

First test is scheduled for March 1st.

US GOVERNMENT TEST (Chapters 1+2)
40 POINTS

CH 1 TERMS

Types of Government                         4 essential features of a state?

      Autocracy                                    What is government?

      Oligarchy                                     Purposes of government?

      Democracy                                  Characteristics of Democracy

      Monarchy                                    3 economic systems                                                        

      Totalitarian (dictatorship)                  a-communism

      Communism                                    b-socialism

      Republic                                          c-capitalism 

CH 2 TERMS

Magna Carta                                    Framers

John Locke                                      Federalists

Representative government                Anti-Federalists

Limited government                          Bill of Rights

Separation of powers                        Electoral College

Colonial Experience  1607-July 4, 1776

      Timeline of events leading up to and causing the American Revolution.

      1^st and 2^nd Continental Congresses

Declaration of Independence – parts, author, significance

Articles of Confederation-created our first national government

      What did the government look like?

      Powers given and denied to nat’l gov’t.

Constitutional Convention- writing of the US Constitution to replace the Articles

      Compromises- Connecticut

                              3/5’s

                              Commerce and Slave Trade

                              Choosing an executive

True or False

Matching/Multiple Choice

1 essay question Bold highlights are possible essay choices