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What is civics?
What makes a person a citizen?
Why do we need government?
What are the different levels of government?
What's the difference between a dictatorship and democracy?
What is the difference between a representative democracy and a direct democracy?
Where was the first democracy?
Where was the first Republic?
What are the two ways that a person can be/become an American citizen?
What was the importance of the Magna Carta? When was it signed?
What was the significance of the Glorious Revolution?
Where was the first permanent English settlement? What type of government did it set up?
What was the Mayflower Compact? when was it signed?
What was England's biggest problem dealing with the colonies?
What was the cause and effect of the First Continental Congress?
What was the cause and effect of the Second Continental Congress?
When was the Declaration of Independence signed?
What was our nation's first government? What were its weaknesses?
Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?
What event caused Great Britain to take on a lot of debt?
Who was the first president of the United States?
According to Thomas Jefferson, what are our ‘unalienable rights”?
When did the Constitutional convention begin?
Where did it occur and how many attended?
Who presided over the meeting?
What event in Massachusetts forced the colonists to act on this new government?
Be able to explain the Great Compromise.
Be able to explain the Three-fifths Compromise.
Be able to explain the Electoral College Compromise.
What group supported the Constitution? Who opposed?
What are the topics of Articles 1, 2, and 3?
What is the purpose of the preamble?
How many articles are there? Amendments?
Understand why checks and balances are important in our government.
Understand why separation of powers are important in our government.
What 5 freedoms are protected by the first amendments?
What are some limits to these freedoms?
Know the contents of amendments 2-10
Double jeopardy-
Eminent domain-
Search warrant-
Libel-
Slander-
Due process-
Which amendment defines who a citizen is?
Which amendment ended slavery?
Which amendment guaranteed women the right to vote?
Which amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18?
What are the 3 branches of our national government?
What two houses make up the US congress?
Know the size of the senate, length of terms, who the leaders are, and specific powers.
Know the size of the House, length of terms, who the leaders are, and specific powers.
Bicameral-
Census-
Equal representation-
What are the requirements to be in the Senate?
What are the requirements to be in the House?
2 senators
and representative
in alabama
What are the qualifications to be president?
How is the president elected?
What is the term of office for president?
Who are the first three people in the presidential succession?
What are some important powers given to the president by the constitution?
What is the role of the president's cabinet?
What amendment states that the president can only serve 2 terms or 10 years?
What is the electoral college?
How many votes from the electoral college must a representative get to be elected president?
The heads of executive departments are called?
What are the three levels of the federal court system?
Which level has original jurisdiction in most cases?
How do you federal judges get their jobs?
What are the qualifications to be a federal judge?
Who has to approve them?
How long do federal judges serve?
How many justices sit on the Supreme Court?
What are the three decisions that appellate court make when a case is appealed?
Who is the chief justice of the US Supreme Court?
The Supreme Court hears very few cases a year what cases do they usually choose to hear and rule on?
What are the three types of party systems?
What type of party systems do we have in the United States?
What is the basic difference between Democrats and Republicans?
What are the two major political parties in the United States?
What is the difference between a liberal and conservative?
What are the major roles of a political party?
political party-
conservative–
liberal–
one party system-
two party system–
multiparty system–
How old do you have to be to vote?
What do you have to do before you can vote?
What can you do if you can't vote in election day?
