AP Government Review Jeopardy

Required cases, founding documents, and the three branches in a single review board. Grab a free copy and let the class buzz in on their phones.

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Foundations and the Constitution

$200
This 1787 document created the framework for the current three-branch federal government.
What is the Constitution?
$400
This series of 85 essays by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay urged ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
$600
This Federalist essay, written by James Madison, argues that a large republic with many factions best guards against tyranny.
What is Federalist No. 10?
$800
This constitutional principle divides governmental power among separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is separation of powers?
$1,000
This system allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches.
What is checks and balances?

Federalism

$200
This constitutional clause declares federal law supreme over conflicting state law.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
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This amendment reserves to the states or the people any powers not delegated to the federal government.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
$600
This clause grants Congress the power to enact laws necessary and proper for executing its enumerated powers.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
$800
This type of federal grant comes with broad conditions and considerable state discretion over how the funds are spent.
What is a block grant?
$1,000
This 1819 Supreme Court case upheld Congress's implied powers and denied states the right to tax federal institutions.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?

Civil Liberties and Rights

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These first ten amendments to the Constitution enumerate individual liberties such as speech and religion.
What is the Bill of Rights?
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This amendment protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
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This clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has been used to apply most Bill of Rights protections to the states.
What is the Due Process Clause?
$800
This 1963 Supreme Court case established that states must provide an attorney to criminal defendants who cannot afford one.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
$1,000
This legal doctrine says courts should apply the strictest level of judicial review to laws that burden a suspect class or a fundamental right.
What is strict scrutiny?

Congress and the Presidency

$200
This chamber of Congress is composed of two members from each state regardless of population.
What is the Senate?
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This power allows the president to reject a bill passed by Congress, which Congress can override with a two-thirds vote in both chambers.
What is the veto?
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This informal power lets the president shape public opinion and pressure Congress by appealing directly to citizens.
What is the bully pulpit?
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This constitutional process requires the Senate to approve treaties by a two-thirds vote and confirm many presidential appointments by majority vote.
What is advice and consent?
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This Senate procedure allows a minority of senators to delay or block a vote through extended debate, typically overcome only by invoking cloture.
What is the filibuster?

The Courts

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This is the only federal court explicitly established by the Constitution itself.
What is the Supreme Court?
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This 1966 case required police to inform suspects in custody of their right to remain silent and to an attorney before questioning.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
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This type of jurisdiction allows a court to hear a case for the first time, rather than on appeal.
What is original jurisdiction?
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This document, filed by an outside party not directly involved in a case, offers the Supreme Court additional legal argument or information.
What is an amicus curiae brief?
$1,000
This 1962 case ruled that federal courts could hear challenges to state legislative district lines, opening the door to the one-person-one-vote standard.
What is Baker v. Carr?

Elections and Participation

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This system awards all of a state's electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the statewide popular vote in most states.
What is winner-take-all?
$400
This process, occurring every ten years after the census, redraws congressional district lines.
What is redistricting?
$600
This manipulation of district boundaries to favor one political party is named for an early Massachusetts governor.
What is gerrymandering?
$800
This nomination process, held before a general election, lets a party's registered voters or delegates choose its candidate.
What is a primary election?
$1,000
This group of 538 electors, apportioned by state, formally selects the president rather than the national popular vote.
What is the Electoral College?

Final Jeopardy — Landmark Cases

Chief Justice John Marshall's opinion in this 1803 case established the Supreme Court's power of judicial review.

What is Marbury v. Madison?

How to run this board

The AP Government exam names its required documents and Supreme Court cases outright, which makes it unusually easy to review as a game: either the class knows Federalist No. 51 and Baker v. Carr or it does not. This board covers foundations, federalism, civil liberties and rights, Congress and the presidency, the courts, and elections.

Run teams by row and put the board on the projector; each row shares a phone for buzzing.

Hold the line on one rule: case answers must include both parties. Marbury alone earns nothing on the free response, so it earns nothing here.

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