Citizenship & Government
The study of the duties and rights of citizens.
What is civics?
Two ancient democracies that helped shape today's system of government.
What are Rome and Greece?
The first constitution of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
An action a person is required to perform.
What is a duty?
A member of a community who owes loyalty to a government and is entitled to its protection.
What is a citizen?
The colonial settlement identified as the first to practice representative government.
What is Jamestown?
The uprising of Massachusetts farmers who faced debt and heavy state taxes after the American Revolution.
What was Shays' Rebellion?
Freedom to think and act without government interference or fear of unfair legal treatment.
What is civil liberty?
An obligation that a person meets of their own free will.
What is a responsibility?
Two shared American values identified in the Chapter 1 quiz.
What are freedom and equality?
The reason dissenters came to the American colonies, according to the quiz.
What is religious freedom?
The form of government in which power is divided between the national government and the states.
What is federalism?
Spoken untruths that harm someone's reputation.
What is slander?
To refuse to purchase certain goods and services as a form of protest.
What is a boycott?
A government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf.
What is a representative democracy?
An agreement among people in a society and their government.
What is a social contract?
The system in which each branch of government can restrain the power of the others.
What are checks and balances?
Written untruths that harm someone's reputation.
What is libel?
To cancel a law.
What is repeal?
A system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives.
What is totalitarianism?
A political philosopher identified in the quiz as believing government existed to serve the people.
Who is John Locke?
The clause declaring the Constitution and national laws and treaties to be the 'supreme Law of the Land.'
What is the Supremacy Clause?
Following established legal procedures.
What is due process?
Powers directly granted to the national government by the Constitution.
What are enumerated powers?