Chapter 16 review (PDF, 25 kb)

Using your textbook and any resources at your disposal, answer the following questions. You can answer them on a piece of paper, or on the wiki.

If you use the wiki, create a new page in the Period 7 folder entitled PAC firstname lastname, substituting your name for the placeholders.

1. Define the political term “soft money”.
2. What does PAC stand for?
3. What type of contribution defines a group as a PAC?
4. Why are PACs created?
5. What’s a 527 group?
6. How is it similar to a PAC?
7. How is it different?
8. Summarize the history and significance of the 527 Swift Vets and POWs for Truth
9. Summarize the history and significance of the 527 moveon.org
10. What percentage of an average congressional campaign’s financial support comes from PACs?
11. Who is a llowed to contribute to a PAC?
12. Visit the Center for Responsive Politics or Political Money Line.  Research three PACs, and answer the following:
    a. What do they stand for?
    b. Which political party do they generally benefit?
    c. What kind of money do they raise?
13. “I’m Barack Obama, and I approved this message.”  Why were political advertisements required to carry this type of disclaimer, starting in 2002?

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Webfoot’s 2008 demographic choropleth map (link)

The link above will access the map we used in class today.  

For more about choropleth maps, click here.

The unit test is Friday, March 20.

I will not be distributing a formal study guide, but you’ll have “Reporter’s Notebook”  entries from your classmates to help you with the War of 1812.

Also, we’ll have a formal review session Tuesday, March 17, which will run the length of the period.

This test will cover the following:

• The election of 1796 and the Adams presidency
• The election of 1800 and the Jefferson presidency
• The Louisiana Purchase
• The Lewis and Clark expedition
• Impressment
• Piracy and the Barbary Wars
• The War of 1812

Below, you’ll find all the documents distributed in class pertaining to this unit. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Class documents:

Slideshows
1796 and the Adams presidency (slides only PDF, 412 KB)
1796 and the Adams presidency (complete slideshow PDF w/video, 18.5 MB)
The Louisiana Purchase (PDF, 2.7 MB)
Dueling/Election of 1800 (PDF, 3.2 MB)
Lewis and Clark expedition (PDF, 1.7 MB)
A short history of piracy (PDF, 1.5 MB)
The War of 1812 (slides only PDF, 128 MB)
The War of 1812 (complete slideshow PDF w/video, 128 MB) 

Other documents
Barbary Wars reading (PDF, 13 KB)
Barbary Wars worksheet (PDF, 24 KB)
Impressment play (PDF, 325 KB)
Impressment worksheet (PDF, 24 KB)

Have the Eyes Had It? (link)