You will create a PowerPoint for your amendment to the US Constitution.

For each amendment you will answer 4 questions.

1. What year was the amendment ratified?

2. What was the purpose of the amendment?

3. What problem was the amendment meant to address?

4. In your opinion, how effective is the amendment?

Email me your work at the end of the period

raul.rivera@austinisd.org

Prohibition Video


Women's Suffrage Video

Landmark Supreme Court Decisions Questions

1.   Name and year of the Supreme Court case.

2.   Tell the story about what happened.

3.   What was the controversy? (why was there not a clear decision?)

4.   What was the argument of each side?

--Argument  1          --Argument 2

5.   What was the Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS) decision?

6.   Why did the SCOTUS make this decision? (use the Constitution and its amendments for SCOTUS justification)

7.   How did the decision affect US law?

8.   Do you agree with the SCOTUS’s decision? Why or why not?

9. What decision would you have made? Why?

1st Period Government! Jesse, John, Tommy, Pearl-A!, Petey, Sabrina, Victor, Leslie, Christian, Ryan, Nick...I hope I didn't leave anyone out! LISTEN UP!

This is your assignment today since we have a sub. EMAIL ALL OF YOUR WORK AT THE END OF THE PERIOD! 

raul.rivera@austinisd.org

I) Finish the questions the sub gives you then,

II) Finish the campaign finance questions in the post below this post (Pearl is the only one finished, she emailed me her work already)

III) Answer the following questions:

Presidential Elections Research               

1. What animal represents the Democratic Party?
2. What animal represents the Republican Party?
3. What color represents the Democratic Party?
4. What color represents the Republican Party?
5. Who won the 1980 Presidential Election and what party did he represent?
6. Who won the 1988 Presidential Election and what party did he represent?
7. Who won the 1992 Presidential Election and what party did he represent?
8. Who won the 1996 Presidential Election and what party did he represent?
9. Who won the 2000 Presidential Election and what party did he represent?
10. Who won the 2004 Presidential Election and what party did he represent?
11. Who won the 2008 Presidential Election and what party did he represent?
12. Who won the 2012 Presidential Election and what party did he represent?