Sink or Swim Review Game

How to Play Answer questions ALONE (10 seconds) Correct answer: you can sink one of the other team’s players or rescue one of your own Incorrect answer: sink yourself Goal: have the most players left at the end of the game

Question 1 What was the Great Compromise?

Question 2 The Anti-Federalists were against the adoption of the Constitution. What document was a result of the Anti-Federalist movement?

Question 3 At the Constitutional Convention, what compromise was reached on the issue of the slave trade?

Question 4 Name a right in the 1 st Amendment

Question 5 How did creating a Senate give small states a equal voice in government?

Question 6 Which President was the first to appoint cabinet members to advise him?

Question 7 What document set up a way for admitting new states on equal terms with existing states?

Question 8 What did Anti-federalists fear about the Government created by the Constitution?

Question 9 What did Alexander Hamilton establish as a way to manage money?

Question 10 Select a right in the Bill of Rights and explain how that right protects individuals from abuse by the government.

Question 11 What important principle is found in the 5 th and 14 th amendments? Gov’t should be based on wealth and power Rights of every citizen must be highly valued The interest of the nation should come before those of any citizen Good citizens need to take an active role in gov’t

Question 12 What document limits the power of the federal government and protects the rights of individuals?

Question 13 Some people, especially southerners, were against creating a national bank under Hamilton’s financial plan. Why did southerners oppose the plan?

Question 14 What did the Judiciary Act of 1789 establish?

Question 15 What branch of the federal government interprets the law though settling disputes?

Question 16 Why did the founding fathers separate the government into three separate branches?

Question 17 What was a criticism merchants had under the Articles of Confederation? National Courts were too powerful The national army was too powerful State gov’ts created obstacles to trading Taxes by the national gov’t were too high

Question 18 When was the Constitution signed?

Question 19 The Federal government under the Constitution can… Not regulate trade Only print money Protect private property Own most businesses

Question 20 Why do people choose to join political parties?

Question 21 Why were some states not in favor of a bill of rights?

Question 22 What is an example of a power given to the Central government that helps them establish and maintain security?

Question 23 Which major principle of the Constitution addresses the issue of free speech Separation of powers Popular sovereignty Individual rights Checks and balances

Question 24 Provide an example of a check that the legislative branch has.

Question 25 The Constitution provides for a bicameral legislature. What is that?

Question 26 What is Federalism?

Question 27 What are two issues that the Federalists and Anti-federalists (democratic-republicans) disagreed?

Question 28 The Constitution outlines a contract between the people and the government. What does the Bill of Rights define in the contract?

Question 29 What was one economic problem American’s faced under the Articles of Confederation?

Question 30 What power in the Constitution allows the central government to manage conflict?

Question 31 What right acts as a check on the governmental power by giving the general public facts about current issues and the actions of their leaders?

Question 32 What does the 7 th Amendment provide?

Question 33 What document was the first to ban slavery in the United States?

Question 34 The 6 th amendment guarantees which right?

Question 35 What two bodies make up the Legislative branch?

Question 36 What document set up for the orderly expansion of the United States?

Question 37 What was one precedent George Washington established?

Question 38 What document made several new states out of the territory above the Ohio river and East of the Mississippi River?

Question 39 How does the Constitution expand the economy? 5 th amendment –protection of property 2 nd amendment –right to bear arms 1 st amendment –freedom of religion 8 th amendment –no cruel or unusual punishment

Question 40 What provision of the Bill of Rights protects people accused of a crime?

Question 41 What check does the judicial branch have over the executive and legislative branches?

Question 42 Citizens known as federalists supported the ratification of the Constitution. Why were Federalists in favor of the Constitution?

Question 43 How would a national bank create a sound financial base for the country?

Question 44 One of the Issues Debated during the convention was the representation of enslaved Africans. How did the North and South delegates feel on this issue and why?