History Study Guides and Aids
Study for the Constitution Exam.
Use your notes. Be sure to bring your About the Constitution packet and any handouts.
For practice you can play two games at quizizz. Go to join.quizizz.com and enter code 035861 to play a Constitution Game and code 705388 to play an Amendments Game
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Constitution Video’s Keith Hughes Articles explained Section by Section
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhVeIOy99f4 Article I 20 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjVJpMdc1cM Article II 15 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG0ZaAVF_i4&list=PLi3U-nPPrbS5d- juhFwo3hTBso0gq2sUZ&index=6 Article III 8 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHKk7cGw5Wc&list=PLi3U-nPPrbS5d- juhFwo3hTBso0gq2sUZ&index=7 Article IV 8 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCzjXaFl79E&index=8&list=PLi3U-nPPrbS5d- juhFwo3hTBso0gq2sUZ Article V 6:40 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN44uDqMzuI&list=PLi3U-nPPrbS5d- juhFwo3hTBso0gq2sUZ&index=9 Article VI 4 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuMsrI64unw&list=PLi3U-nPPrbS5d- juhFwo3hTBso0gq2sUZ&index=10 Article VII 5 minutes
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Constitution Test Study Guide Three Branches of Government - Legislative, Executive, Judicial
How is power divided between the branches? Legislative: Congress….1) Senate 2) House of Representatives
Qualifications to be a Senator, Representative, President
Terms of Office: Senator, Representative, President
How are number of Senators and Representatives determined?
Who are our Senators and Congressperson?
Constitution divided into three sections: Introduction, Body, Changes (you need to know the official names for these sections and what they do) How does a bill become a law?
Who can propose a bill?
Conference committees?
What are Amendments?
How is an amendment to the Constitution made?
What is special about the 1st ten Amendments?
Impeachment: Who brings up charges and who holds the impeachment trial?
Where can you find the report of ALL legislative branch activities?
Presidential line of succession, Commander in Chief, Electoral College Speaker of the House, President of the Senate, President Pro Tempore Supreme Court Justices: How many? How do they get to be justices? Term of service?
Due Process / eminent domain / reprieves and pardons / apportionment / petition Deport / naturalization / representative democracy / veto / elastic powers / cabinet
Delegated Powers / Retained (reserved) Powers / Shared (Concurrent) Powers
Who has the power to do the following:
Coin money / regulate trade within states / borrow money / regulate education / enforcing laws / regulating trade / establishing local governments / provide for citizens welfare / taxing / declaring war / conducting diplomacy / run the postal service / conduct elections / provide for national defense
Plus … All of the Amendments
