Air Test
Government AIR Test Topics and Checklist
Please check the topics you feel confident that you understand and know from our time in government. Use the checkmarks to help guide you on what to review in preparation for the AIR test.
Step 1. Use the following symbols or colors to demonstrate level of understanding:
✓=strong understanding ✖= Moderate understanding ?= Weak understanding
Step 2. Use Schoology resources in order to turn yellows & reds to green!
Constitution and Federalist/Anti-Federalist ❐ Articles of Confederation ❐ U.S. Constitution ❐ Preamble ❐ Articles of the Constitution ❐ Separation of powers ❐ Checks and balances ❐ Federalism ❐ Limited government ❐ Popular sovereignty ❐ Rule of Law ❐ Federalist ❐ Anti-Federalist
| Amendments ❐ Amendment ratification process ❐ Bill of Rights (1 - 10) ❐ Due Process ❐ Reconstruction (13, 14, 15) ❐ Prohibition (18 & 21) ❐ Presidential (12, 20, 22, 25) ❐ Suffrage/voting (15, 19, 23, 24 & 26) ❐ Progressive (16, 17, 18, 19) | Legislative Branch ❐ Article I ❐ Makes the law ❐ Bicameral Legislature ❐ House qualifications ❐ Senate qualifications ❐ Term length of House/Sen. ❐ Special Duties of House/Sen. ❐ How a bill becomes a law ❐ Power of Congress ❐ Implied powers ❐ Concurrent powers ❐ Reserved powers ❐ Gerrymandering ❐ Gridlock | Economy & Government ❐ Expansionary policy ❐ Contractionary policy ❐ Fiscal Policy ❐ Govt. spending ❐ Taxes ❐ Revenue ❐ Govt. Deficit ❐ Recession ❐ Supply & demand ❐ Monetary Policy ❐ Money Supply ❐ Inflation ❐ Unemployment ❐ Discount Rate ❐ Reserve Requirements |
Executive Branch ❐ Article II ❐ Enforces/executes the law ❐ Vice president ❐ Qualification of Pres./VP ❐ Term length and limit ❐ Presidential Primary Election ❐ Presidential General Election ❐ Popular Vote ❐ Electoral College ❐ Presidential powers (ex. veto) ❐ Presidential roles (comm-in-chief) ❐ Domestic policy ❐ Foreign policy ❐ Executive Departments (ex. Dept. of Defense) ❐ Presidential succession ❐ The cabinet ❐ Impeachment | Judicial Branch ❐ Article III ❐ Interprets the law ❐ Supreme Court ❐ Number of Supreme Court Justices ❐ Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ❐ Process for choosing federal judges ❐ Judges length of terms ❐ Judicial Review ❐ Precedent ❐ Federal Court System (District, Appeals, & Supreme)
| Politics, Elections & Citizenship ❐ Political Spectrum ❐ Conservative & Liberal ❐ Interest /Advocacy Groups & Lobbying ❐ Credibility of source material/bias ❐ Compromise/ Negotiation/ Consensus/ Persuasion |
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