Transcript Finall - MollyHunterp5

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Ch. 1
 1. What is civics?
 The study of rights and duties of citizens
 2. The American population is diverse. Explain?
it is ethnic or racial
 3. How does one become a U.S. citizen?
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you are born in the U.S., become naturalized citizens
4. Compare and contrast illegal and legal aliens?
illigal aliens are here illigaly and legal aliens are here legaly
 5. What is a representative democracy?
 The citizens choose a smaller group to represent them
Ch. 2
 1. What is the Magna Carta?
 A document that protected the nobles authority
 2. List 3 natural rights?
 Life liberty and property
 3. Why did many early people settle in America?
 To seek religious freedom
 4. Describe the triangular trade route?
it went along the Americas, Africa, and Europe
 5. Why was the D.O.I. written?
 To set
The Declaration of Independence
 Write the Preamble:
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one to
dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
and to assume among the power of the earth, the separate and equal
situation to which the law’s of nature and the nature’s god entitled
them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which them to the separation
 List 3 Grievances
 He has refused to asset laws, he has refused to pass other laws and he
has forbidden his governors to pass laws
 List 3 Signers of the Declaration
 John Hancock Roger Sherman John Penn
Ch. 3
 1. Name of the first constitution of the United States of
America?
 Continental of Congress
 2. List a weakness of the A.O.C.?
 difficult for passing laws
 3. What was the Great Compromise?
 Agreement providing a dual system of congressional
representation
 4. List the 3 branches of government…
Judicial branch, legislative branch, executive branch
 5. The writers of the Constitution divided power of government
into three types, what are they?
Constitution of the United States
 Write the Preamble:
 We the people of the united states, in oreder to form a
more eprfect insure domestic union, establish justice,
insure domestic traquility, provide for the common
defence, promote the general wellfare, and secure the
blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity, do
ordain and establish this Constituion for the United
States.
What is the Elastic Clause?
the final enumerated
Ch. 4
 1. List 5 Freedoms in the First Amendment…
freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of press, freedom to
petition the government, freedom of assembly
 2. How many amendments are in the B.O.R.?
 10
 3. What does suffrage mean?
 The right to vote
 4. Describe the Brown Decision?
 Supreme court ruled that racial segregation was unconstitutional in
peublic schools
 5. List 3 accomplishments of MLK?
 He received the nobel peace prize, he helped end slavery, selected man
of the year by Time magazine
Ch. 5
 1. What is the difference between duties and responsibilities?
 We should do responsibilities and duties are things we need to do
 2. List 2 responsibilities…
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be informed, speak up and vote
3. List 2 duties…
obey laws, pay taxes
4. Governments are bureaucracies– what does this mean?
Complex systems with many department ,many rules, many
people in the chain of command
5. How do Americans volunteer? List examples…
Cleaning up a highway, helping needy families, animal shelter,
food drives
Ch. 6
 1. What are the two houses of Congress?
the senate & house of representative
2. How has congressional apportionment over the last 200 years?
shift in pop from Northeast state to south and western states
 3. How does Congress remove an official from office?
house impeaches or accuses officials of misconduct
 4. List qualifications for Senators & Representatives…
house 25, senate 30, house citizen for 7, senate citizen for 9
 5. How does a bill become a law?
introduced in senate, committee action, floor action, conference
action, pass bill, president signs bill
Ch. 7
 1. According to the U.S. Constitution, who can become president
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of the USA?
person must be 35, native born us citizen, resident for 14 years
2. List duties of the President of the USA…
execute the laws passed by congress
3. A nation’s plan for dealing with other nations is called?
foreign policy
4. A group of presidential advisers that include the heads of the
top-level executive departments?
cabinet
5. What is the civil service system
Practice of hiring government workers on the basis of open
competitive examinations
Ch. 8
 1. The authority to hear and decide a case is known as?
jurisdiction
 2. Describe the tenure for a federal judge?
for life
 3. The United States Supreme Court has how many members?
8 associate justices + 1 chief justice
94. What court case gave the Supreme Court Judicial review?
maurbary vs. Madison
 5. What court case permitted “separate but equal” facilities for
whites and African Americans?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Ch. 9
 1. An organization of individuals with broad, common interests who
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organize to win elections?
political party
2. Two major political parties today?
Republicans and Democrats
3. List a third party…
Green Party
4. Geographic area that contains a specific number of voters?
precinct
5. Most states hold a primary where only the declared members of a
party are allowed to vote for that party’s nominees. What is this
primary called?
CLOSED PRIMARY
Ch. 10 Voting and Elections
 1. In most states what are the requirements for voting?
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18 years, citizen, registered
2. If you cannot get to the polls on election day, how can you still
vote?
absentee ballot
3. A way for citizens to approve or reject a state or local law?
referendum
4. To promote a particular person or idea and to influence voters
to choose one candidate over another is what technique?
propaganda
5. Politicians who have already been elected to office are known
as?
incumbents
Electoral College
 What is it?
a group of people names by
each state
legislature to select the president and vice president
 Include a map
 Controversies?
Ch. 11
 1. The term for the ideas and attitudes that most people
hold about a particular issue or person
 2. Mass media includes?
 3. Can the government censor material before it is
published?
 4. What is libel?
 5. Provide an example of an interest group?
Ch. 12
 1. What is a federal system of government?
 2. What is a bicameral legislature?
 3. In most states what are the qualifications for
becoming governor?
 4. The court of last resort in most states?
 5. How can judges be removed from office?
Ch. 13
 1. Most large cities operate under what mayor-system?
 2. Central city and surrounding suburbs is known as?
 3. Normally a state’s largest territorial and political subdivision?
 4. Where the county courthouse is located?
 5. Smallest unit of local government?
Ch. 14
 1. What is public policy?
 2. In setting priorities, a community must decide what it
______________ most?
 3. Law signed in 2001, to hold schools accountable for student
learning?
 4. When was the EPA established?
 5. The preservation and protection of our natural resources?
Ch. 15
 1. What was the first known system of written law?
 2. Party that brings charges?
 3. Individual or group accused of a crime?
 4. What amendments guarantee due process?
 5. A judge’s authorization – specifying the exact place to be searched
and describing what objects may be seized?
Checks and Balances
Draw arrows to one
another explaining
checks and
balances p. 88
Executive
Legislative
Judicial