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    U.S.

    Civics Exam Study Guide

    1. Explain the purpose of constitutional amendments 1-10, 13-17, 19, and 24. How many
    amendments are there?

    2. What are three main branches of government? What specific purpose does each branch have?

    3. What is checks and balances? What are some examples?

    4. State the requirements for becoming a U.S. House member, senator, and president.

    5. What are the term lengths for congressman, the president, and Supreme Court Justices?

    6. How many House members, senators, and Supreme Court Justices are there?

    7. What is a federal form of government?

    8. Where does ultimate political authority come from in a republic?

    9. How is the president elected?

    10. What are the two major political parties today?

    11. Describe the precedents set in the following Supreme Court Cases: Marbury v. Madison,
    1803, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824, Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857,
    Brown v. Board of Education, 1954.

    12. Who were the first people to explore the Americas?

    13. Define Middle Passage.

    14. Describe the Declaration of Independence. What were its major parts, or points?

    15. What group initially opposed ratifying the constitution?

    16. What was the outcome of the War of 1812?

    17. Describe the major components of the Missouri Compromise.

    18. What was the outcome of the Mexican-American War?

    19. Describe the effects (plural) of the Emancipation Proclamation.

    20. What is a Jim Crow law?


    21. Why did the U.S. enter WWI and WWII? What were the causes and outcomes of those
    wars? What is the “Big Three”?

    22. What is containment, or the Truman Doctrine?

    23. What was the cause and outcome of the Korean War?

    24. What were the major pieces of legislation that came about as a result of the Civil Rights
    movement of the 1960s? Describe those pieces of legislation.

    25. Describe the Watergate scandal.

    26. What were major effects of the Reykjavik Summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail
    Gorbachev?

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