Early US Gov't
3 Branches
Constitution
Bill of Rights
Vocabulary
100
This was the name of the first Government in the United States and was created in 1777 with 13 delegates.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
This is the branch of government that includes the President of the United States.
What is the Executive Branch?
100
This is the introduction to the Constitution.
What is the preamble?
100
This amendment allows citizens to protest with picket signs on public property.
What is Amendment 1 (Freedom of Assembly)?
100
This idea prevents one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What is Checks and Balances?
200
This was the amount of votes needed to change a law in the Articles of Confederation. 
What is 13 out of 13?
200
This is the total number of Senators in the Senate. 
What is 100?
200
This is the year that the Constitution was created. 
What is 1787?
200
This Amendment prevents criminals from being tarred and feathered in public humiliation as a form of punishment.
What is Amendment 8 (Cruel & Unusual Punishment)?
200
This is the beginning of the removal process of a President. 
What is impeachment?
300
This compromise solved the problem of how to count slaves towards the population of a state.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
300
This is the branch of government that interprets the law. 
What is the Judicial Branch?
300
According to this Article, each state has to respect the laws and court decisions of the other states.
What is Article 4?
300
A police officer sees an open bottle of alcohol in the passenger's seat of the car you are driving when you're pulled over. As a result, he can search your car. This Amendment relates to this situation. 
What is Amendment 4 (Search with a warrant or with probable cause)?
300
This Compromise combined the New Jersey and the Virginia plans together. 
What is the Great Compromise?
400
This plan called for a 2-house Legislature where both houses' representation were determined by population of the state. 
What is the Virginia Plan?
400
This branch is responsible for granting pardons to specific criminals. 
What is the Executive Branch (President)?
400
According to Article 6, this is the "supreme law of the land".
What is U.S. or Federal law?
400
Knowing that James watched the real murder happen as a witness, the prosecutor would not allow the suspect, Robert, to call on James as a witness. This amendment would protect Robert in that situation.
What is Amendment 6?
400
This fancy word for "approve" is mentioned in Article seven of the Constitution. It mentions how many states you need to "approve" the Constitution in order for it to pass.
What is ratify?
500
This was the number of branches of government in the Articles of Confederation. 
What is one branch?
500
This is how old you must be in order to qualify to be a part of the House of Representatives.
What is 25?
500
According to Article 5, you need 2/3 majority of both houses of Congress AND 3/4 of state legislatures to say yes in order to do this.
What is "amend" the Constitution or create a new amendment/change to the constitution?
500
A police officer barges into your house and arrests you, saying you are no longer allowed to "dance on tables", and then throws you directly into his cop car without anything else said. All of these amendments were violated. 
What are Amendments 4, 5, and 9?
500
This concept gives the PEOPLE the power to make decisions through the voting process. 
What is Popular Sovereignty?
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