Unit 1 AP Government Review

Before the Constitution

100

Group that opposed the ratification of the Constitution

Who are the Anti-Federalists?

200

Stated the colonists' rationale to protect their natural rights by instituting a new government.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

300

Document that created strong state governments and a weak, ineffective central government.

What is the Articles of Confederation?

400

Incident in Massachusetts that highlighted the need for a stronger national government.

What is Shays' Rebellion?

500

Conflict that encouraged the British crown to impose taxes on the American colonists

What is the French and Indian War "Seven Year's War"

Federalism

100

Powers shared between the federal and state governments.

What are concurrent powers?

200

Article I Section 8 of the Constitution, which gives Congress broad power to "make all Laws which shall be..."

What is necessary and proper?

300

States that powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution are reserved to the states.

What is the Tenth Amendment?

400

What did the Supreme Court rule during United States v. Lopez (1995)?

That gun possession inside a local school zone is not economic activity, and therefore not subject to Congressional oversight under the commerce clause.

500

What did the Supreme Court rule during McCulloch v. Maryland?

That the federal government has the right to charter a national bank under the necessary and proper clause.

Constitutional Principles

100

Each branch of government has power to limit the power of the other two branches of government.

What is checks and balances?

200

John Locke wrote that all people have these, which are reflected in the first nine amendments to the Constitution.

What are natural rights?

300

Referring to a division of power between the federal government and the states.

What is federalism?

400

Granting power to an independent executive branch, legislative branch, and judicial branch.

What is separation of powers?

500

Interest groups such as the NRA and Greenpeace are an example of what kind of democracy?

What is pluralist democracy?

Constitution: Ratification and Compromises

100

This resolved the issue of counting slaves into the population for apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives.

What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?

200

Part of a series of essays written in support of ratification, this paper argues for a strong central government. 

What is Federalist No. 10?

300

This paper argued that the Constitution would encroach on states' rights, and should not be ratified without a bill of rights.

What is Brutus No. 1?

400

Voting rights, requirements, and eligibility were left to these governmental agents by the Founders.

What are state governments?

500

The Connecticut (Great) Compromise resolved this dispute during the Constitutional Convention.

What is the issue of representation for each state in the U.S. Congress?