Foundational Documents
Considered to be one of the first documents on U.S. soil, this document created the concept of Self-Government and a democracy.
What is Mayflower Compact?
Chamber that has 100 members and each state has 2 representatives.
What is the Senate?
A tax act on a popular beverage in the colonies.
Gives citizens free speech, religion, and press as well as the right to petition the government and assemble.
What is the First Amendment?
Someone who is born on U.S. soil is known as this.
What is a natural-born citizen?
Created in 1215, this document limited the King's power in Great Britain and created the Rule of Law.
What is the Magna Carta?
The parts of government created by the concept of a separation of powers.
A tax on materials the colonists cannot produce on their own (glass, tea, paper, lead, and paint).
The right of citizens to be protected from unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the 4th amendment?
Someone who immigrates to the U.S. and goes through the legal process of becoming a citizen.
What is a naturalized citizen?
A pamphlet that inspired colonists to fight for independence from Great Britain.
What is Common Sense?
Advisors of the President responsible for running the various executive departments/agencies.
What is the Cabinet?
What is the Declaratory Act?
The amendment that freed slaves and prohibited slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th amendment?
What is the legally living in the U.S. for 5 years, the citizenship interview, and passing the citizenship test?
This English document was made in 1689 and it was used as a way to limit government and grant rights to citizens of England.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The age requirement to become a U.S. President.
What is 35 years old?
What is the Quartering Act?
The amendment that allowed women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
Someone who seeks shelter in another country by fleeing their own country due to war/violence/ persecution.
What is a refugee?
The document supported by the Anti-Federalists and necessary to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This specific position is part of the Executive Branch, but also participates in the Senate when necessary.
What is the Vice President?
Acts passed following the Boston Tea Party that punished colonists for what they did.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
The amendment that banned poll taxes.
What is the 24th amendment?
What is the Law of Soil?