Amendments
Leg. Branch
Famous People
Vocabulary
Presidents
100
This amendment guarantees your right to bear arms.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
100
This is the primary responsibility of the Legislative Branch.
What is to make the laws?
100
The primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
The idea that everyone, including the king and the president, must obey the law.
What is rule of law?
100
When acting in this role, a president might send troops into battle.
What is Commander-in-Chief?
200
The name given to the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
These two bodies make up the US Congress.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
200
The first woman on the Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
200
The division of power between the state and national governments.
What is federalism?
200
The president during World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300
This amendment reserves powers to the state governments.
What is the 10th amendment?
300
The total number of people who make up the US Congress.
What is 535?
300
The first African American on the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
300
The only president to resign from office?
Who is Richard Nixon?
400
This amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
The two senators from Kentucky.
Who are Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning.
400
This British monarch was forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215.
Who is King John?
400
A form of government in which a small group of people share power.
What is an oligarchy?
400
These two presidents were impeached.
Who are Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton?
500
This amendment protects your right to a speedy and fair trial.
What is 6th Amendment?
500
This clause allows Congress to expand its powers beyond those listed in the Constitution.
What is the Elastic Clause?
500
This English thinker's ideas influenced the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
500
The process of determining the number of representatives each state is allotted.
What is reapportionment?
500
One of the four presidents elected without winning the popular vote.
Who is John Q. Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, or Al Gore?
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