Systems of Government
This form of government centralizes all its power at the national level. (Unitary vs. Federal)
What is Unitary?
Who is Rousseau, Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire?
The Articles of Confederation were...
The first written form of government in the United States.
Who are Donald Trump and Grover Cleveland?
The three branches of government are..
Executive, Judicial, and Legislative?
This is who has the power in an Oligarchy.
What is a small group of central individuals.
This man was the main author of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
This was one major weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is there was no way to tax, build an army, or produce a common currency?
This US President was also an accomplished wrestler.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
These are the freedoms granted in the first amendment.
What is freedom of speech, religion, assembly, press?
Describe the role of citizens in a democratic system.
Citizens may actively participate in their government by voting and voicing concerns to their elected officials.
This is one document that helped inspire the US Constitution.
What is the Magna Carta, Common Sense, English Bill of Rights?
Anti-Federalists were in favor of weaker national government.
This was the first US President to be born in a hospital.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
What is the Bill of Rights?
The power lies here in a confederal government.
What is with local authorities or states?
This was the main goal of the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
What is to revise the Articles of Confederation?
This was the purpose of the 3/5s Compromise.
What is to regulate the representation of slaves in the states?
This artist has the most monthly listeners on Spotify.
Who is Bruno Mars?
The concept of checks and balances is...
What is the set of laws and rules in place to ensure no one branch of government gains too much power?
This is an example of an Authoritarian regime in the modern day.
What is North Korea, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, China?
This compromise ended disagreements over representation in the national government.
What is the Great Compromise?
This was the name of the set of essays written pushing for the ratification of the Constitution "as is".
What are the Federalist Papers?
This Disney Princess has gotten the LEAST amount of screen time.
Who is Aurora from Sleeping Beauty?
The amendment ended slavery in the US.
What is the 13th amendment?