Format

• 57 questions
• Multiple choice, multiple answer, true-false
• 3 points each
• 75 minutes
• In person, in CASA testing center

Material

• Covers all material from the entire semester

• 25 Texas questions, 32 Unit 1 and 2 questions

    - 10 questions from lecture Unit 1
    - 10 questions from lecture Unit 3 (Texas)
    - 6 general court case questions (see last section)
    - 6 questions from Unit 1 text
    - 6 questions from Unit 2 text
    - 15 questions from Unit 3 text
    - 2 I Know it Now questions each from Units 1 and 2 widely missed but important (4 total)

Studying - Resources

• In Canvas Final Exam Module

    - Complete list of Texas Inquizitive Questions
    - Texas Lecture Questions Practice Exam
    - Complete list of Exam 1 Lecture Questions 
    - List of Exam Review Questions for each Unit

• In Canvas Exam 1 and 2 Modules

    - Your Exam 1 and Exam 2 results with answers
    - Exam 1 and 2 Practice Exams

• In Canvas Unit Modules

    - Inquizitives
    - Illumine E-book
    - Lecture Slides
    - Flashcards
    - Chapter Outlines

Unit 1

• What is government?

• What is politics?

• Why do we need to control government?

• Major principles of the US Constitution

    - Articles of the Constitution especially Articles I to III
    - Checks and balances
    - Federalism
    - Separation of powers
    - Bill of Rights
    - Enumerated Powers
    - Civil Liberties
    - Civil Rights

Unit 2

• Public Opinion

• Participation and Voting

• The Media

• Political Parties

• Elections and Campaigns

    - What is a democracy?
    - What is a republic?
    - How do minority rights figure into democracy?

Unit 3 (Texas)

• Texas Constitution
• The Texas Plural Executive
• Texas Political Culture

Important Court Cases (Government Structure)

• Marbury v. Madison (established judicial review)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (federalism - federal supremacy)
• Prinz v. United States (federalism - state’s not agents of the federal government)
• United States v. Nixon (executive privilege)
• Bush v. Gore (elections - equal protection applies to elections)

Important Court Cases (Civil Rights)

• Dred Scott v. Sandford (denied citizenship to African Americans - major spark of the Civil War)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (separate but equal allowed - Jim Crow laws)
• Brown v. Board of Education (overturned Plessy; separate is inherently unequal)
• Virginia v. Loving (interracial marriage - marriage is fundamental right)
• Obergefell v. Hodges (same sex marriage)

Important Court Cases (Civil Liberties)

• Griswold v. Connecticut (right to privacy - birth control)
• Roe v. Wade (legalized abortion)
• Casey v. Planned Parenthood (abortion - narrowed Roe v. Wade)
• Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (overturned Roe v. Wade and Casey - abortion a state issue)
• Lawrence v. Texas (overturned state sodomy laws - right to privacy - ended persecution of homosexual sex)

Important Court Cases (Civil Liberties - Criminal Justice)

• Gideon v. Wainwright (right to counsel)
• Miranda v. Arizona (police must inform suspects of rights before questioning)
• Terry v. Ohio (stop and frisk; reasonable search during questioning)

I Know It Now Questions 1

• James Madison famously described the system of representative government in the Constitution as a Republic and contrasted it with a form of unlimited, majoritarian government which he labeled democracy. Which of the following characteristics of modern liberal democracy are shared with Madison’s Republic? (Choose all that apply)

  A. Opposition to one party rule B. Protection of property rights C. Protection of basic civil liberties D. Representative government E. Protection of political minorities **

I Know It Now Questions 2

Under the original Constitution, Congress could not ban the slave trade until:

A. 1865
B. 1808 **
C. 1921
D. 1945

I Know It Now Questions 3

The writers of the Constitution used the term________ for a form of government that consists of carefully designed institutions that are responsive to the majority but not captive to it.

A. Republic **
B. Monarchy
C. Democracy
D. Oligarchy

I Know It Now Questions 4

The right to an attorney is guaranteed by the________ Amendment.

A. First
B. Second
C. Tenth
D. Sixth **

I Know It Now Questions 5

When the nation was founded, who was eligible to vote?

A. everyone—there was universal suffrage
B. all males and females who were at least 21 years of age
C. only males who owned property **
D. only citizens who had lived in the nation for at least 10 years
E. all native-born citizens

I Know It Now Questions 6

African American men technically gained suffrage with passage of the________ Amendment.

A. 12th
B. 10th
C. 15th **
D. 26th

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