Unit 1 Test

Our first test will be this Friday Feb. 20th

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, and Republic

 Characteristics of Democracy                  

Characteristics of the 3 economic systems

communism, socialism, capitalism

 CH 2             20 questions

Framers
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Federalist Papers
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, and Choosing an executive

30 Multiple Choice

10 point essay question
        2 prompts/pick 1
        Bold highlights are possible choices