MIDTERM h5-h6 Review Sheet
Answer ALL questions.
1.  What did Abraham Lincoln believe was his primary job as president (hint: it is also his reason for going to war?) 

2. What are the three branches of government AND what is the main job of each branch? 

3. What case established judicial review AND define judicial review? 

4. What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act provide for? 

5.  How did the United States get the Oregon Territory from Britain? (Remember, there are only a few ways in which the US gained territory—one is war—so war is not the answer here) 

6. What is the purpose of the census (NOT what is a census—I want to know why we do it) 

7.  Define a FEDERAL SYSTEM of government 

8. What did the federalists at the Constitutional Convention want? 

9.  Which document says that the people of the US can overthrow the government if the government fails to protect natural rights AND who wrote the Declaration of Independence AND from whom did he borrow the ideas of natural rights from?