Citizens Make a Difference
Tennessee Governement
Rights and Responsiblities
National Government
Miscellaneous
100
An official member of a community, state, or nation.
What is a citizen?
100
The building where leaders of the government meet to make laws.
What is a capitol?
100
A freedom that a person has that is protected by the law.
What is a right?
100
The branch of government that makes laws, Congress.
What is the legislature?
100
Symbols that help to measure distance on a map.
What is a map scale?
200
Whatever helps the most people in a community.
What is the common good?
200
The person elected as head of a state.
What is a governor?
200
Basic laws and ideas that a government and its people follow.
What is a constitution?
200
The branch of government that signs laws, the President.
What is the executive branch?
200
The way someone thinks about an event, an issue, or a person.
What is point of view?
300
A person who works freely, without pay.
What is a volunteer?
300
A fee citizens pay to local, state, and national government.
What is a tax?
300
A duty or an obligation that a person has.
What is a responsibility?
300
The branch of government that enforces laws, courts.
What is the judicial branch?
300
Tennessee's state capitol is located in this city.
What is Nashville?
400
The Red Cross is an example of this.
What is a non-profit organization?
400
This branch of state government makes sure laws follow constitutions and decide the punishments when laws are broken.
Who are judges?
400
To make an official choice (election).
What is to vote?
400
A government's plan for solving problems or providing services.
What is public policy?
400
Taxes on private goods and services pay for these.
What are public goods and services?
500
A volunteer group in Tennessee that packs kits to give to people who have been in fires.
What is Volunteer Memphis?
500
This branch carries out the laws.
Who is the Governor?
500
It is both a right and a responsibility.
What is voting?
500
The United States is this type of government.
What is a Representative Democracy?
500
The Tennessee capitol building is made of this rock.
What is limestone?
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