Government Review 12/12

Voter Behavior

Income and Occupation

Education Gender, Age

Religion, Ethnic Background

Geography

Family and Other Groups

Party ID

Candidates and Issues

Public Opinion

Family

School

Mass Media

Opinion Groups

Peers

Historic Events

Straw Votes

Scientific Polling (Process)

Television

Newspapers

Radio 

Magazines

Internet

Interest Groups

Lobbying

Political Action Committee

Public Interest Group

Economic Interest Group

Know a Couple Interest Groups

US Studies Quiz Review

Reconstruction

Andrew Johnson

Great Plains Indians

Buffalo

Dawes Act

Assimilation

Cowboys

Homestead Act

Soddy (Plains Home)

Morrill Act

Bessemer process

Thomas Edison

Alexander Bell

Transcontinental Railroad

Andrew Carnegie

Social Darwinism

John D. Rockefeller

Immigration

Why do people come to America?

Ellis Island

Angel Island

Nativism

Melting Pot

Urbanization

Urban Problems

Government Quiz Review

Oligarchy

Monarchy

Dictatorship

Totalitarianism

Qualifications for Senate/House

Terms for Senate/ House

Gerrymandering

Utah Senators/Reps

Speaker of the House

Bicameral

Adjourns

Convenes

How many Senators/Reps

The Purpose of Reps

Fringe Benefits

Process of making a law

Presidential Term

Presidential Qualifications

Members of the Executive Branch

Electoral College/Popular Vote

Presidential Powers/Duties

The Cabinet

Government Unit 1 Review

You will be tested on anything we have discussed in class. This is just a guide to help you study. Know more than the definition. Understand WHY the terms are important.

Democracy

Republic

Direct Democracy
Oligarchy
Monarchy
Dictatorship
Communism 

Representative Democracy

What type of Government does the U.S. have?

Purpose of Constitution

Preamble

Articles of the Constitution

Qualifications and term for Senate

Qualifications and term for House of Representatives

Qualifications and term for President

How many Representatives and members of senate come from each state?

Powers of congress (know a couple)

Powers denied to congress (know a couple)

Succession of President (know the next two)

What is the highest court in the US?

Treason

Citizenship for each state/what if someone flees the state?

What does the Constitution guarantee to States?

Ratification of Constitution

Know how the Bill of Rights came about and all ten amendments

Amendment 13, 14,15,18,19,21,22,26

Magna Carta

Social Contract

Enlightenment

John Locke
Tabula Rasa

Natural Rights

Continental Congress

Declaration of Independence

Checks and Balances

Articles of Confederation/ Weaknesses

Characteristics of a State

Origins of the State

Constitutional Convention

Virginia Plan

New Jersey Plan

Great Compromise

3/5 compromise

Federalist

Anti-Federalist
How many states had to agree on the Constitution? 

Federalism (state/national powers)
6 principles of the Constitution 

Be prepared for multiple choice, short answer, True False and essay questions.

Constitution Part 2

1.         According to the Constitution, a person must meet certain requirements in order to be eligible  to become President. Name one of these requirements.

2.         Why are there 100 Senators in the Senate?

3.         Who selects the Supreme Court justices?

4.         How many Supreme Court justices are there?

5.         Why did the Pilgrims come to America?

6.         What is the head executive of a state government called?

7.         What is the head executive of a city government called?

8.         What holiday was celebrated for the first time by American colonists?

9.         Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence?

10.     When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

11.     What is the basic belief of the Declaration of Independence?

12.     What is the national anthem of the United States?

13.     Who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner?

14.     Where does freedom of speech come from?

15.     What is the minimum voting age in the United States?

16.     Who signs bills into law?

17.     What is the highest court in the United States?

18.     Who was President during the Civil War?

19.     What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

20.     What special group advises the President?

21.     Which President is called the "Father of our country”?

22.    What Immigration and Naturalization Service form is used to apply to become a naturalized citizen?

23.     Who helped the Pilgrims in America?

24.     What is the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America?

25.     What were the 13 original states of the U.S. called?

26.     Name 3 rights or freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.

27.     Who has the power to declare war?

28.     What kind of government does the United States have?

29.     Which President freed the slaves?

30.     In what year was the Constitution written?

31.     What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called?

32.     What is the supreme law of the land?

33.     Where does Congress meet?

34.     Whose rights are guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?

35.     What is the introduction to the Constitution called?

36.     Name one benefit to being a citizen of the United States?

37.     What is the most important right granted to U.S. citizens?

38.     What is the United States Capitol?

39.     What is the White House?

40.     Where is the White House located?

41.     What is the name of the President's official home?

42.     Name one right guaranteed by the first amendment.

43.     Who is the Commander in Chief of the U.S. military?

44.     Which President was the first Commander in Chief of the U.S. military?

45.     In what month do we vote for President?

46.     In what month is the new President inaugurated?

47.     How many times may a Senator be re-elected?

48.     How many times may a Congressman be re-elected?

49.     What are the 2 major political parties in the U.S. today?

50.     How many states are there in the United States?

Constitution Test Part 1

U.S. Constitution Test Part 1

1.         What are the colors of our flag?

2.         How many stars are there in our flag?

3.         What color are the stars on our flag?

4.         What do the stars on the flag mean?

5.         How many stripes are there in the flag?

6.         What color are the stripes?

7.         What do the stripes on the flag mean?

8.         How many states are there in the Union?

9.         What is the 4th of July?

10.     What is the date of Independence Day?

11.     Independence from whom?

12.     What country did we fight during the Revolutionary War?

13.     Who was the first President of the United States?

14.     Who is the President of the United States today?

15.     Who is the Vice-President of the United States today?

16.     Who elects the President of the United States?

17.     Who becomes the President of the United States if the President should die?

18.     For how long do we elect the President?

19.     What is the Constitution?

20.     Can the Constitution be changed?

21.     What do we call a change to the Constitution?

22.     How many changes or amendments are there to the Constitution?

23.     How many branches are there in our government?

24.     What are the three branches of our government?

25.     What is the legislative branch of our government?

26.     Who makes the laws in the United States?

27.     What is Congress?

28.     What are the duties of Congress?

29.     Who elects Congress?

30.     How many senators are there in Congress?

31.     Can you name the two senators from your state?

32.     For how long do we elect each senator?

33.     How many representatives are there in Congress?

34.     For how long do we elect the representatives?

35.     What is the executive branch of our government?

36.     What is the judiciary branch of our government?

37.     What are the duties of the Supreme Court?

38.     What is the supreme law of the United States?

39.     What is the Bill of Rights?

40.     What is the capital of your state?

41.     Who is the current governor of your state?

42.     Who becomes President of the United States if the President and the Vice-President should die?

43.     Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

44.     Can you name the 13 original states?

45.     Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death."?

46.     Which countries were our enemies during World War II?

47.     What are the 49th and 50th states of the Union?

48.     How many terms can a President serve?

49.     Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?

50.     Who presides over your local government?

A Bomb Opinions

Against:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=584k0gwvhUs
For:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmIBbcxseXM

US Government Review

Political Parties

Two party systems-

Political Spectrum

Multiparty System

One-Party System

Four Major Eras of Political Parties

Minor Parties

Ideological Parties

Single Issue Parties

Economic Protest Parties

Splinter Parties

Why are minor parties important?

Voter Behavior

Income and Occupation

Education

Gender, Age

Religion, Ethnic Background

Geography

Family, Social Groups

Party Identification

Candidates and Issues

Public Opinion-

How do the following affect opinions? :

Family-

School-

Mass Media-

Peer Groups-

Opinion Leader-

Historic Events (Examples)-

How do the following measure Public Opinion? :

Interest Groups-

Media-

Public Opinion Polls-

Straw Votes-

Scientific Polls-

The Process of Scientific Polls-

Medium-

Television-

Newspaper-

Radio-

Magazines-

Internet-

Incumbent-

Electoral College-

Popular Vote-

Interest groups-

Public Interest groups-

Economic Interest groups-

Lobbying-

(PAC)’s-

Free Rider-

Grass Root’s lobbying-

Know a couple Interest groups and what they do-

1920's and Great Depression Review

Prohibition (18^th and 21^st amendments)

The New Woman

19^th Amendment

Bootleggers

The Red Scare

Organized Crime

Speakeasies

Harlem Renaissance

Scopes Trial

KKK in the 1920’s

Roaring 20’s (Fitzgerald)

Jazz Music

Great Depression (Causes, what was the economic situation like)

Dust Bowl

Banks during the Depression

Who ran for President during the 1932 election?

Buying Stock on Margin

Herbert Hoover

Government Relief

FDR closes the banks

Goals of the New Deal

FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

AAA Agricultural Adjustment Act

CCC Civilian Conservation Corps

TVA Tennessee Valley Authority

Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act

FHA Federal Housing Administration

NRA National Recovery Act

Deficit Spending

WPA Works Progress Administration

NYA National Youth Administration

Social Security Act

Fair Labor Standards

WPA Works Progress Administration

Wagner Act

National Industrial Recovery Act

Eleanor Roosevelt

National Debt/ Unemployment

Grapes of Wrath

Wall Street Crash

The Wall Street Crash, 1929

The "Roaring 20s" that followed the end of World War I was a period of prosperity for most Americans. As the economy grew, stock prices soared. By the end of the decade, as many as 25 million Americans had placed money in the stock market in order to share in the wealth. The best part of the process was that you didn't need a lot of cash to join the party. You could buy your stock on margin. That is, borrow the money for your stock purchase using the value of the stock itself as collateral. It is estimated that by 1929, the total amount of debt amassed by the practice had reached six billion dollars. It was a house of cards that remained erect as long as stocks continued to increase in value. However, if stock prices plummeted, the whole rickety structure could collapse.

Variety's headline after the Crash

The tremors that would eventually destroy this flimsy economic edifice made their first rumblings in September 1929. The market dropped sharply at the beginning of the month but rose again only to drop and rise again. The rollercoaster ride continued in October as the beginning of the month saw another drop followed by another burst of strength. Then came Black Thursday – October 24 – when a drop in stock prices triggered a burst of panic-selling so frantic that it overwhelmed the Stock Exchange's ability to keep track of the transactions.

Wall Street financers were able to reverse the downward plunge only by buying as many shares of stock as they could over the next two days. It was a temporary victory. Monday's opening bell unleashed a frenzy of selling that soon turned into an uncontrolled panic that continued for the rest of the trading day. The following day – Black Tuesday, October 29 – saw the previous day's panic turn into bedlam on the trading floor.

According to one observer, traders "hollered and screamed, they clawed at one another's collars. It was like a bunch of crazy men. Every once in a while, when Radio or Steel or Auburn would take another tumble, you'd see some poor devil collapse and fall to the floor." This was the Crash, although few could see it at the time. The Market continued its decline but never as dramatic. Thirty billion dollars had been lost - more than twice the national debt. The nation reeled, and slipped into the depths of the Great Depression.

"This was real panic."

Jonathan Leonard was a reporter who was on the scene as Wall Street tumbled. We join his story following "Black Thursday."

"That Saturday and Sunday Wall Street hummed with week-day activity. The great buildings were ablaze with lights all night as sleepy clerks fought desperately to get the accounts in shape for the Monday opening. Horrified brokers watched the selling orders accumulate. It wasn't a flood; it was a deluge. Everybody wanted to sell-the man with five shares and the man with ten thousand. Evidently the week-end cheer barrage had not hit its mark.

Monday was a rout for the banking pool, which was still supposed to be 'on guard.' If it did any net buying at all, which is doubtful, the market paid little attention. Leading stocks broke through the support levels as soon as trading started and kept sinking all day. Periodically the news would circulate that the banks were about to turn the tide as they had done on Thursday, but it didn't happen. A certain cynicism developed in the board rooms as the day wore on. Obviously the big financial interests had abandoned the market to its fate, probably intending to pick up the fragments cheap when the wreck hit the final bottom. 'Very well,' said the little man, 'I shall do the same.'

When the market finally closed, 9,212,800 shares had been sold. The Times index of 25 industrials fell from 367.42 to 318.29. The whole list showed alarming losses, and margin calls were on their way to those speculators who had not already sold out.

That night Wall Street was lit up like a Christmas tree. Restaurants, barber shops, and speakeasies were open and doing a roaring business. Messenger boys and runners raced through the streets whooping and singing at the tops of their lungs. Slum children invaded the district to play with balls of ticker tape. Well-dressed gentlemen fell asleep in lunch counters. All the downtown hotels, rooming houses, even flophouses were full of financial employees who usually slept in the Bronx. It was probably Wall Street's worst night. Not only had the day been bad, but everybody down to the youngest office boy had a pretty good idea of what was going to happen tomorrow.

Bewildered crowds on Wall Street

The morning papers were black with the story of the Monday smash. Except for rather feeble hopes that the great banks would step into the gap they had no heart for cheerful headlines. In the inside pages, however, the sunshine chorus continued as merry as ever. Bankers said that heavy buying had been sighted on the horizon. Brokers were loud with "technical" reasons why the decline could not continue.

It wasn't only the financial bigwigs who spoke up. Even the outriders of the New Era felt that if everybody pretended to be happy, their phoney smiles would blow the trouble away. Jimmy Walker, for example, asked the movie houses to show only cheerful pictures. True Story Magazine, currently suffering from delusions of grandeur, ran full page advertisements in many papers urging all wage earners to buy luxuries on credit. That would fix things right up. McGraw-Hill Company, another publishing house with boom-time megalomania, told the public to avert its eyes from the obscene spectacle in Wall Street. What they did not observe would not affect their state of mind and good times could continue as before.

These noble but childish dabbles in mass psychology failed as utterly as might have been expected. Even the more substantial contributions of U.S. Steel and American Can in the shape of $1 extra dividends had the same fate. Ordinarily such action would have sent the respective stocks shooting upward, but in the present mood of the public it created not the slightest ripple of interest. Steel and Can plunged down as steeply as if they had canceled their dividends entirely. The next day, Tuesday, the 29th of October, was the worst of all. In the first half hour 3,259,800 shares were traded, almost a full day's work for the laboring machinery of the Exchange. The selling pressure was wholly without precedent. It was coming from everywhere. The wires to other cities were jammed with frantic orders to sell. So were the cables, radio and telephones to Europe and the rest of the world. Buyers were few, sometimes wholly absent. Often the specialists stood baffled at their posts, sellers pressing around them and not a single buyer at any price.

This was real panic. It was what the banks had prevented on Thursday, had slowed on Monday. Now they were helpless. Reportedly they were trying to force their associated corporations to toss their buying power into the whirlpool, but they were getting no results. Albert Conway, New York State Superintendent of Insurance, took the dubious step of urging the companies under his jurisdiction to buy common stocks. If they did so, their buying was insufficient to halt the rout."

References:
   This account appears in: Leonard, Jonathan Norton, Three Years Down (1944); Allen, Frederick, Lewis, Since Yesterday: the 30's in America (1972).

WW1 Test Review

Militarism

Nationalism

Imperialism

Alliance System (Countries involved)

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

Gunshot of the Century

Submarine/Naval Warfare

Air Warfare

Trench Warfare

Western Front

Eastern Front

Total War

Industrial War

Chlorine and Mustard Gas

Propaganda

The United States and WW1

Russian Revolution

Sinking of Lusitania

Zimmerman Telegram

Armistice day

Casualties of the War

Costs of War

The Big Four

Treaty of Versailles

14 Points

Revenge from France, Britain and Italy

League of Nations

Creation of New Nations

U.S. Constitution Test Part 1

1.         What are the colors of our flag?

2.         How many stars are there in our flag?

3.         What color are the stars on our flag?

4.         What do the stars on the flag mean?

5.         How many stripes are there in the flag?

6.         What color are the stripes?

7.         What do the stripes on the flag mean?

8.         How many states are there in the Union?

9.         What is the 4th of July?

10.     What is the date of Independence Day?

11.     Independence from whom?

12.     What country did we fight during the Revolutionary War?

13.     Who was the first President of the United States?

14.     Who is the President of the United States today?

15.     Who is the Vice-President of the United States today?

16.     Who elects the President of the United States?

17.     Who becomes the President of the United States if the President should die?

18.     For how long do we elect the President?

19.     What is the Constitution?

20.     Can the Constitution be changed?

21.     What do we call a change to the Constitution?

22.     How many changes or amendments are there to the Constitution?

23.     How many branches are there in our government?

24.     What are the three branches of our government?

25.     What is the legislative branch of our government?

26.     Who makes the laws in the United States?

27.     What is Congress?

28.     What are the duties of Congress?

29.     Who elects Congress?

30.     How many senators are there in Congress?

31.     Can you name the two senators from your state?

32.     For how long do we elect each senator?

33.     How many representatives are there in Congress?

34.     For how long do we elect the representatives?

35.     What is the executive branch of our government?

36.     What is the judiciary branch of our government?

37.     What are the duties of the Supreme Court?

38.     What is the supreme law of the United States?

39.     What is the Bill of Rights?

40.     What is the capital of your state?

41.     Who is the current governor of your state?

42.     Who becomes President of the United States if the President and the Vice-President should die?

43.     Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

44.     Can you name the 13 original states?

45.     Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death."?

46.     Which countries were our enemies during World War II?

47.     What are the 49th and 50th states of the Union?

48.     How many terms can a President serve?

49.     Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?

50.     Who presides over your local government?