Study Guide Government Midterm Exam Winter 2025

Constitutional Convention

1. New Jersey Plan

2. Great Compromise

3. Articles of Confederation

4. Three-Fifths Compromise

5. Virginia Plan

6. Bill of Rights

Voting Rights

1. Amendments: 13th, 15th, 19th

2. Poll tax

3. Grandfather Clause

4. Suffrage

5. Candidates 2024 Presidential Election

Electoral College

1. Federalist

2. Swing state

3. Red state

4. Popular vote

5. Exceptional Elections

6. Third party candidate

7. 270 electoral votes

Powers of the President

1. Executive branch

2. Executive order

3. Formal Powers

4. Executive Privilege

5. Line-item veto

6. Pocket veto

7. Policy Agenda

8. Veto

Checks on the President

1. Cabinet Responsibilities

2. Attorney General

3. Positions in First Cabinet

4.. President-elect Trump nominees-State, Defense, Education

5. Ambassador

6. Joint Chiefs of Staff

7. Chief of Staff

8. Cabinet

9. Inherent powers

Lists

1. Alternatives to the Electoral College (3)

2. Cabinet Firsts

-female

-Black male

-Black male Secretary of State

-Black female Secretary of State