Americans All
We the People
Government by People
Branches of Goverment
Strengths of our Freedoms
100
Native Americans
Who were the first Americans?
100
Rules and laws we follow and the people who run the country
What is government?
100
Document settin up a plan for governing our nation
What is the Constitution of the United States?
100
Makes laws
What is the legislative branch?
100
Born or go through special classes
What is citizenship?
200
The Bering Strait
Where could the Asians have crossed to get to North America?
200
An official member of a country
What is a citizen?
200
The first level of government
What is the local government
200
enforces our nation's laws
What is the executive branch?
200
The first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
Lewis and Clark
Who explored the Louisiana territory?
300
Leaders make decisions for the people who elect them
What is a representative government?
300
A governor runs this level of government
What is the state government?
300
Interpreting our nation's laws
What is the judicial branch?
300
A government document used tin traveling to foreign countries
What is a passport?
400
A person who comes to live in a new land
What is an imigrant
400
clean water, maintaining roads, set aside lands for parks
What are jobs of government?
400
Commander in Chief of the armed forced
Who is the president of the United States?
400
Made up of senators and representatives
What is Congress?
400
Money the government collects to pay for services
What are taxes?
500
Music, art, religion, holidays, customs, stories, and games
What are parts of culture
500
Every citizen has a right to take part in government
What is a democracy?
500
Head of the national government
What is the president?
500
Lives and works in the White House
Who is the president?
500
A panel of ordinary citizens who make decisions in a court of law
What is a jury?
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