Module 2 Note Taking Guide

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1 Module 2 Note Taking Guide Module 2.00 Foundations Look through the pace chart and plan out the module. Don t forget to be working on your Service Learning Project. You also need to start thinking about your collaboration assignment in the discussion group. Complete after Take your 2.00 Pre-test. This assignment is 20 multiple choice questions and 1 short essay. It DOES NOT count against your overall grade Revolutionary Ideas 1. What is independence? 2. What ideas shaped how the colonists thought about government? a. Where did the colonist get most of their ideas about government? b. What is the Enlightenment? c. Who is John Locke? d. What are some ideas that Great Britain made their own? e. How did each of the following impact colonists ideas about government? i. Ancient Greece direct democracy ii. Ancient Rome Republic iii. Enlightenment Natural Rights Social Contract - Popular Sovereignty - 3. How Did Governance in the Colonies Change? a. What happened in the 1600 s in the colonies? b. In the 1760 s what happened to coin the phrase taxation without

2 representation? c. What were the causes and effects of the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party? 4. How did colonial leaders respond? a. First Continental Congress: b. Second Continental Congress: c. Olive Branch Petition: d. Who wrote Common Sense and what was it about? e. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? Watch the Video!!!! Take notes on the video 5. How Is the Declaration of Independence Organized? a. Three components i. Introduction - ii. Complaints - iii. Declaration - 6. How does the Declaration of Independence reflect the Social Contract Principle? 7. How does the Declaration of Independence reflect Popular Sovereignty? a. What did Benjamin Franklin mean by, "In free governments, the rulers are the servants and the people their superiors and sovereigns."? 8. How does the Declaration of Independence reflect Natural and Individual Rights? a. What is an unalienable right?

3 b. How did women and slaves factor in to the Declaration of Independence? c. How are the words all men interpreted today? 9. What other quotes in the Declaration of Independence reflect these principles? Take notes as you read the document or you can watch this video. Youtube search reading Declaration of Independence Complete the True/False Review of the Lesson. Next, create your own modern day Common Sense pamphlet that explains how the Declaration of Independence upholds the principles of popular sovereignty, social contract, and natural and individual rights. Turn your pamphlet in as Module 2 Lesson 2.02 The Constitution 1. What are the Articles of Confederation? a. Confederation: b. How were states effected? c. What were the successes of the Articles of Confederation? a. b. c. d. e. 2. Why did the Articles of Confederation fail? (be sure to click on the cards to flip them) a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i.

4 3. Why did the United States need a new Constitution? (take notes as you watch the video) 4. What are the parts of the Constitution? LEJ RASR L Legislative Branch: E Executive Branch: J Judicial Branch: R Reserved Powers of the States: A Amendment Process: S Supremacy Clause: R Ratification: 5. How does the Constitution reflect valued principles and create a stronger government? Federalism: Limited Government: Rule of Law: Public Sovereignty:

5 Republic: Separation of Powers: Checks and Balances: 6. Why did the framers build checks and balances into the system? a. How does Congress have power over the President? b. How does the President have power over the Courts? c. How do the Courts have power over Congress? d. How does the President have power over Congress? e. How do the Courts have power over the President? f. How does Congress have power over the courts? 7. What are the steps to amending the Constitution? a. b. 8. What is the Bill of Rights? 9. How is the 10th amendment an example of federalism? Complete the 2.02 Practice Review and then take the quiz for 2.02.

6 2.03 The Anti-Federalists You will use the information in this lesson to write a persuasive argument for one side of a debate or the other using evidence found in the lesson. 1. Ratification of the Constitution required out of states to approve it. States split into 2 groups Federalists and Anti-Federalists. a. Federalists: b. Anti-Federalists: 2. What was the Great Compromise a. Virginia Plan: b. New Jersey Plan: c. The Great Compromise: 3. How was slavery addressed by the Great Compromise? a. Three-fifths compromise: 4. What are the Federalist Papers? Watch the video and take notes Explain the Quotes a. Federalist #10 - b. Federalist #39 - c. Federalist #51 - d. Federalist #70 - e. Federalist #84 -

7 5. What were the main points in the ratification debate? Listen to the debate and fill out the t-chart. Be sure to put the quotes on their respective sides. Federalists Anti-Federalists 6. How did the Bill of Rights help ratification? Watch the video and take notes. a. Why were some against the Bill of Rights? b. Why were some against the Bill of Rights? c. Why are they still important? 7. When did the states ratify? a. What did the Anti-Federalists get? b. What did the Federalists get? c. How is it possible that some states are mostly red on the map, but they still ratified the Constitution? 8. Complete the Review and Practice 9. Write a persuasive argument either for or against ratifying the Constitution Module 2 Lesson 2.04 Federalism 1. What is Federalism? a. sovereign - b. What does the Constitution do? c. What is dual federalism? d. What is cooperative federalism? 2. What types of powers are in the Constitution? i.a. delegated or expressed powers -

8 b. reserved powers - c. concurrent powers - ii. a. implied powers - b. elastic clause - c. McCullough v. Maryland - d. Supremacy clause - iii. Who gets what powers? a. delegated to the national government - b. Concurrent powers - c. Reserved to states - 3. Federalism in the Constitution a. Article IV - b. Article V - c. Article VI - d. Gibbons v. Ogden - e. Commerce Clause - f. Tenth amendment - 4. States Powers and Rights a. How are states organized? b. Why are state constitutions longer than the US Constitution?

9 c. Fill out the bubbles 5. Challenges of Federalism a. How are emergencies handled? b. What are possible controversies with emergency management? c. Broad language: stronger Constitution: weaker Constitution: d. Why would a State want to nullify a Federal law? e. unfunded mandate: 6. Structure of local governments a. Who/what gives power to local governments? b. charter: c. infrastructure: d. municipality: e. District of Columbia v. Heller:

10 f. precedent: g. state militia: 7. Responsibility who handles problems? local, state, or federal? Complete the activity to determine who has responsibility in different situations. 8. Review do the review activities to review the lessons in this section. 9. Complete the quiz for this assignment. 10. Honors Activity write an opinion on a selected Supreme Court Case Module 2 Lesson 2.05 The Bill of Rights 1. a. What does the Bill of Rights protect? b. What is the purpose of the Bill of Rights? Summarize the First Ten Amendments 1 st 2 nd 3 rd 4 th 5 th 6 th 7 th 8 th 9 th 10 th 2. Are individual rights absolute? a. Explain how each of the rights in the Bill of Rights is limited. 1 st 2 nd 3 rd 4 th 5 th 6 th 7 th 8 th 9 th 10 th

11 3. How do we balance liberty and order? 4. Complete the activity on restricting civil liberties. You can do it several times and see the different answers. Take notes as you go along. 5. Complete the Matching Review of the Bill of Rights. 6. Call your teacher for your Discussion Based Assessment. Be prepared to discuss any and all of the concepts in the module. 7. Take your module 2 exam.