How the class works, your quiz record, and every “know them” item from chapters 1–6 (a ★ marks the chapter 6 items most likely to be asked). Check an item off once you can explain it without looking; Study it jumps to the notes.
Wilson chapter 1: what politics, power, authority and legitimacy are; direct and representative democracy; the five views of who governs; and the four types of politics.
Front: the term. Back: what it means. Space flips, arrows move.
Tap a term, then the line that defines it.
Multiple choice and true/false like the Canvas quizzes, plus “name them” lists like the exam. Keys 1–9 answer or toggle, Enter checks and moves on.
Wilson chapter 2: why the colonists distrusted power, why the Articles failed, what happened in Philadelphia in 1787, how the Constitution is built, and what Federalist No. 10 and No. 51 argue.
Wilson chapter 3: unitary, confederal and federal systems; the Tenth Amendment, the supremacy clause and the elastic clause; the landmark cases; Obamacare as a test of federalism; grants, mandates and devolution.
Wilson chapter 4: what political culture is, Tocqueville, the five elements of the American political system, how the U.S. compares with other countries, the civic role of religion, the culture war, and the decline of trust.
Wilson chapter 5: civil liberties. How crises narrow freedom, how the Bill of Rights came to bind the states, what speech is and isn’t protected, the two religion clauses, and the rights of the accused.
Wilson chapter 6: civil rights. From Plessy to Brown, the campaign in Congress, the three tests the Court uses, women’s rights, privacy, affirmative action, and sexual orientation. Highlighted lines are the ones most likely to be asked.
The paper’s requirements as a checklist, the class discussions by date (the paper has to cite one), and the faith side of the course: Scripture from class and the Thomas themes.
Questions from every chapter, reshuffled each run — or replay your real Canvas quizzes, including only the ones you missed. Instant feedback with the reason.