Module 2 – Foundations
2.00 Foundations Objectives – 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.
Take your 2.00 Pre-test. This is 20 m/c questions and 1 short essay. It DOES NOT count
against your overall grade.
2.01 Revolutionary Ideas
1. What is independence? ______________________________________________________
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2. What ideas shaped how the colonists thought about government?
a. Where did the colonist get most of their ideas about government?____________________,
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b. What is the Enlightenment?____________________________________________________
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c. Who is John Locke?___________________________________________________________
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d. What are some ideas that Great Britain made their own?____________________________
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e. How did each of the following impact colonists ideas about government?
i. Ancient Greece – direct democracy_________________________________________
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ii. Ancient Rome – Republic_________________________________________________
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iii. Enlightenment – Natural Rights____________________________________________
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Social Contract - _____________________________________________________
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Popular Sovereignty - _________________________________________________
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3. How Did Governance in the Colonies Change?
a. What happened in the 1600’s in the colonies? _____________________________________
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b. In the 1760’s what happened to coin the phrase “taxation without representation”? ______
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c. What were the causes and effects of the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party? _____
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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?_________________________________
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e. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?______________________________________
Watch the Video!!!!
Take notes on the video…
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5. How Is the Declaration of Independence Organized?
a. Three components…
i. Introduction - _________________________________________________________
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ii. Complaints - __________________________________________________________
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iii. Declaration - _________________________________________________________
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6. How does the Declaration of Independence reflect the Social Contract Principle?_______
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7. How does the Declaration of Independence reflect Popular Sovereignty?________________
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a. What did Benjamin Franklin mean by, "In free governments, the rulers are the servants and
the people their superiors and sovereigns."?_________________________________________
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8. How does the Declaration of Independence reflect Natural and Individual Rights?________
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a. What is an unalienable right?___________________________________________________
b. How did women and slaves factor in to the Declaration of Independence?_______________
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c. How are the words “all men” interpreted today?___________________________________
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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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETroXvRFoKY&feature=related Youtube search “reading
Declaration of Independence”
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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 2.01.
Module 2 Lesson 2.02 – The Constitution
2.02 The Constitution – The Articles of Confederation
1. What are the Articles of Confederation?_________________________________________
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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. ___________________________________________________________________________
3. Why did the United States need a new Constitution? (take notes as you watch the video)__
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4. What are the parts of the Constitution? LEJ RASR
L – Legislative Branch:___________________________________________________________
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E – Executive Branch:____________________________________________________________
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J – Judicial Branch:______________________________________________________________
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R – Reserved Powers of the States:_________________________________________________
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A – Amendment Process:________________________________________________________
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S – Supremacy Clause:___________________________________________________________
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R – Ratification:________________________________________________________________
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5. How does the Constitution reflect valued principles and create a stronger government?
Federalism:___________________________________________________________________
Weakness in Art. of Conf:________________________________________________________
Strength in Constitution:_________________________________________________________
Limited Government:___________________________________________________________
Weakness in Art. of Conf:________________________________________________________
Strength in Constitution:_________________________________________________________
Rule of Law:___________________________________________________________________
Weakness in Art. of Conf:________________________________________________________
Strength in Constitution:_________________________________________________________
Public Sovereignty:_____________________________________________________________
Weakness in Art. of Conf:________________________________________________________
Strength in Constitution:_________________________________________________________
Republic:___________________________________________________________________
Weakness in Art. of Conf:________________________________________________________
Strength in Constitution:_________________________________________________________
Separation of Powers:___________________________________________________________
Weakness in Art. of Conf:________________________________________________________
Strength in Constitution:_________________________________________________________
Checks and Balances:____________________________________________________________
Weakness in Art. of Conf:________________________________________________________
Strength in Constitution:_________________________________________________________
6. Why did the framers build checks and balances into the system?______________________
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a. How does Congress have power over the President?________________________________
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b. How does the President have power over the Courts?_______________________________
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c. How do the Courts have power over Congress?____________________________________
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d. How does the President have power over Congress? _______________________________
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e. How do the Courts have power over the President?_________________________________
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f. How does Congress have power over the courts?___________________________________
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7. What are the steps to amending the Constitution?
a.___________________________________________________________________________
b.___________________________________________________________________________
8. What is the Bill of Rights?______________________________________________________
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9. How is the 10th amendment an example of federalism?_____________________________
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Complete the 2.02 Practice Review and then take the quiz for 2.02.
Module 2 – Lesson 2.03
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:_________________________________________________________________
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b. Anti-Federalists:_____________________________________________________________
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2. What was the Great Compromise
a. Virginia Plan: _______________________________________________________________
b. New Jersey Plan:_____________________________________________________________
c. The Great Compromise:_______________________________________________________
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3. How was slavery addressed by the Great Compromise?______________________________
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a. Three-fifths compromise:______________________________________________________
4. What are the Federalist Papers? ________________________________________________
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Watch the video and take notes__________________________________________________
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Explain the Quotes
a. Federalist #10 -_____________________________________________________________
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b. Federalist #39 - _____________________________________________________________
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c. Federalist #51 - _____________________________________________________________
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d. Federalist #70 - _____________________________________________________________
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e. Federalist #84 - ______________________________________________________________
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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?________________________________________
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b. Why were some against the Bill of Rights?________________________________________
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c. Why are they still important?___________________________________________________
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7. When did the states ratify?
a. What did the Anti-Federalists get?_______________________________________________
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b. What did the Federalists get?___________________________________________________
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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? __________________________________________________________
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a. sovereign - __________________________________________________________________
b. What does the Constitution do?_________________________________________________
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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 - ______________________________________________
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b. reserved powers - _________________________________________________________
c. concurrent powers - _______________________________________________________
ii. a. implied powers - __________________________________________________________
b. elastic clause - ____________________________________________________________
c. McCullough v. Maryland - ___________________________________________________
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d. Supremacy clause - _________________________________________________________
iii. Who gets what powers?
a. delegated to the national government -________________________________________
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b. Concurrent powers - _______________________________________________________
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c. Reserved to states - ________________________________________________________
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3. Federalism in the Constitution
a. Article IV - _________________________________________________________________
b. Article V - _________________________________________________________________
c. Article VI - _________________________________________________________________
d. Gibbons v. Ogden - __________________________________________________________
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e. Commerce Clause - _________________________________________________________
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f. Tenth amendment - __________________________________________________________
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4. States Powers and Rights
a. How are states organized?_____________________________________________________
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b. Why are state constitutions longer than the US Constitution? _________________________
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c. Fill out the bubbles…
5. Challenges of Federalism
a. How are emergencies handled?_________________________________________________
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b. What are possible controversies with emergency management?______________________
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c. Broad language: stronger Constitution:__________________________________________
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weaker Constitution: ___________________________________________________________
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d. Why would a State want to nullify a Federal law?___________________________________
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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:__________________________________________________
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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. Activity – Use your notes and take the quiz on Federalism – e-mail this note taking guide or
call your teacher for the password – everyone takes the quiz – Honors and Regular students
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?________________________________________
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Summarize the First Ten Amendments…
1st __________________________________________________________________________
2nd __________________________________________________________________________
3rd __________________________________________________________________________
4th __________________________________________________________________________
5th __________________________________________________________________________
6th __________________________________________________________________________
7th __________________________________________________________________________
8th __________________________________________________________________________
9th __________________________________________________________________________
10th _________________________________________________________________________
2. Are individual rights absolute?_________________________________________________
a. Explain how each of the rights in the Bill of Rights is limited.
1st __________________________________________________________________________
2nd _________________________________________________________________________
3rd __________________________________________________________________________
4th __________________________________________________________________________
5th __________________________________________________________________________
6th __________________________________________________________________________
7th __________________________________________________________________________
8th __________________________________________________________________________
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3. How do we balance liberty and order?___________________________________________
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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. ______________________________________
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5. Complete the Matching Review of the Bill of Rights.
6. a. Fill out the 3-2-1- chart…
3 – list 3 things you learned in this module…
1. ______________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________
2 – list 2 things in the module you think are very important…
1. ______________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________
1 – list 1 question you have about the module…
1. _____________________________________________________________________
b. Call your teacher for your Discussion Based Assessment. Be prepared to discuss any and all
of the concepts in the module.
c. Take your module 2 exam.