1. Unit 1 Study Guide Test- 30 Multiple Choice Questions (30 Minutes) Unit I: Constitutional Underpinnings of United States Government Review your readings Review your handouts Review your notes Review your packets Review your vocabulary terms You should be able to thoroughly explain and answers each of the following concepts/ questions:
Some Topics in Class Weren't on the Exams
The point of a class is the material, not the exam. The exam is a check to see whether you learned the material.
Do You Give Out a Study Guide?
Hmm. The textbook simplifies a vast amount of material, then I simplify it more in lecture. Then you want me to extract the most important ten per cent of that and put it on a study guide, so if you know most of it you can get an A.
So what you're saying is the cutoff grade for an A should be 10%, right?
I Know The Material - I Just Don't Do Well on Exams
Leprechauns, unicorns, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, hobbits, orcs - and students who know the material but don't do well on exams. Mythical creatures.
I've met students who claim to know the material but not do well on exams, but when you press them, it turns out they don't know the material after all. If you can't answer questions about the material or apply the knowledge in an unfamiliar context, you don't know it. You might have vague impressions of specific ideas, but if you can't describe them in detail and relate them to other ideas, you don't know the material.
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2. Articles of Confederation

3. Declaration of Independence

4. Continental Congress (1st and 2nd)

5. Judicial Review

6. The road to the Constitution

7. Constitution Convention - Plans/ Compromise that created the Constitution

8. Federalist/ Antifederalist

9. Amendment Process

10. Federalism (eras of federalism)

11. Grants/ Mandates

12. Powers of the National/ State Government

13. Marbury v. Madison Supreme Court cases - have a brief knowledge of the case and the impact/result of each case Who/ What happened/ When/ Constitutional Issue/ Result

14. United States v. Lopez Supreme Court cases - have a brief knowledge of the case and the impact/result of each case Who/ What happened/ When/ Constitutional Issue/ Result

15. Gibbons v. Ogden Supreme Court cases - have a brief knowledge of the case and the impact/result of each case Who/ What happened/ When/ Constitutional Issue/ Result

16. McCulloch v. Maryland Supreme Court cases - have a brief knowledge of the case and the impact/result of each case Who/ What happened/ When/ Constitutional Issue/ Result
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