Overview and Strategy
Pre-Constitution America
Creating the Constitution
The Constitution
Bill of Rights
100
How many choices can you eliminate from a multiple choice question before making and educated "guess"?
What is one
100
The state governments formed after the Declaration of Independence were outlined in written constitutions and had weak _______________.
What are executives
100
A slave would be counted as 3/5ths of a person according to the Constitution for ______________ purposes and _____________
What is taxation and representation
100
Who can remove an elected official from the national government?
What is the Senate
100
This group insisted on a Bill of Rights
What is the Anti-Federalists
200
What percent of question on the MC will be on public policy?
What is 5-15%
200
The key to the colonial assemblies was that they had control of spending and _______________.
What are taxes
200
The Great compromise was between these 2 groups at the Constitutional Convention?
What are the big and small states
200
Which Amendment is the basis for Reserved Powers?
What is the 10th
200
When we apply the BOR to the states, what is it called?
What is selective incorporation
300
How long do you have to finish the multiple choice section?
What is 45 minutes
300
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government could not regulate ________________ trade.
What is interstate (domestic)
300
The New Jersey Plan allowed state governors to remove what official from the national government?
What is the chief executive
300
Under the _______________ Clause the federal government has the highest authority as compared to the other levels
What is the Supremacy
300
Which Amendment gives us the right against self-incrimination?
What is the 5th
400
How long is the entire AP Government Test?
What is 2 hrs and 25 minutes
400
Why did more Americans vote than British residents in Colonial America?
What is they owned more land
400
He is known as the "Father of the Constitution"
Who is James Madison
400
Which level of government had the 1st written constitutions?
What are state
400
The original intent of the BOR was to protect individuals from the:
What is federal government
500
How many points will you lose if you leave a MC question blank?
What is zero
500
Match the philosopher with his theory used during the American Revolution-Creation of the Constitution Montesquieu- __________________
What are separation of powers
500
Which founding father did not attend the Constitutional Convention?
Who is Thomas Jefferson
500
A federal government is most like which typr of democracy?
What is presidential
500
A 2006 survey stated that 22% of Americans could name all of the members of the Simpsons. What percent in that poll could list the rights protected in the 1st 5 Amendments?
What is .1%!!!
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