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.

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 1st 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

5th and 14th amendments?Gov’t should be based on wealth and

powerRights of every citizen must be highly

valuedThe interest of the nation should come

before those of any citizenGood 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 powerfulThe national army was too powerfulState gov’ts created obstacles to tradingTaxes 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 tradeOnly print moneyProtect private propertyOwn 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 speechSeparation of powersPopular sovereigntyIndividual rightsChecks 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 7th Amendment provide?

Question 33

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

Question 34

The 6th 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?5th amendment –protection of property2nd amendment –right to bear arms1st amendment –freedom of religion8th 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?