Section 1: Why Americans Have Government
Section 2: The First American Government
Section 3: A New Constitution
Anything Chapter 2
Random Trivia
100
Type of government in which the government has total control over the lives of the people and rules the nation by force.
What is Totalitarian (Dictatorship)?
100
Country that once controlled the American Colonies?
What is Great Britain?
100
Where and when the delegages met for the Constitutional Convention.
What is Philadelphia, 1787?
100
The 3 inalienable rights described in the declaration of independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
100
A vocabulary term meaning approval.
What is ratify?
200
Type of government in which the people of a nation rule directly or they elect officials on their behalf
What is a Democracy?
200
War in which the colonists fought for and won their independence from Great Britain.
What is the Revolutionary War?
200
Chosen to preside over the Constitutional Convention because of his success during the Revolutionary War as a general.
Who is George Washington?
200
City chosen as the nation's temporary capital?
What is New York City?
200
The 2016 World Series Champions
Who are the Chicago Cubs?
300
At least 3 services the government performs for its people.
What are protection from enemies, fire department, police, system of money, trash collection?
300
Was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence by the members of the Second Continental Congress.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
Two English documents that the framers of the Constitution used when writing the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights?
300
Those who opposed the Constitution.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
300
This amendment gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
Why large groups of people need rules.
What is to help them live together in peace?
400
The date of the approval of the Declaration of Independence.
What is July 4, 1776?
400
System in which the powers of the National government and the state governments are divided.
What is the Federal System?
400
Document explaining the reasons for why the 13 colonies wanted to separate from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
This is our current Vice President
Who is Mike Pence?
500
Where the laws of our nation are written.
What is the Constitution?
500
America's first plan of government, which began operating in 1781.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
500
The two houses of the U.S. Congress.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
500
The three levels of government.
What are local, state, and national (Federal)?
500
This popular hymn was published by the Hartford Music Company in 1932.
What is I'll Fly Away?
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