More help for first test

US GOVERNMENT TEST 1 (CH. 1+2) REVIEW

40 POINTS

CH. 1              10 questions

What is government?

      Purposes of government?

4 essential features of a state?

Types of Government                        

      Autocracy                                    

      Oligarchy                                     

      Democracy                                   

      Monarchy                                           

      Totalitarian (dictatorship)                  

      Communism                                       

      Republic

Characteristics of Democracy                  

Characteristics of the 3 economic systems

      communism

      socialism

      capitalism

CH 2             20 questions

      Framers

      Federalists

      Anti-Federalists

      Bill of Rights

      Electoral College

Colonial Experience  1607-July 4, 1776

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

     

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

Multiple Choice

1 essay question Bold highlights are possible choices