A member of a community that has rights and responsibilities.
What is a citizen?
100
A supporter of the U.S. Constitution during its creation. These supporters wanted a federal government.
What is a federalist?
100
The Enlightenment thinker Montesquieu came up with this idea when it comes to government.
What is "separation of power"?
100
This is the introduction of the Constitution. It lists the 6 purposes of the U.S. government.
What is the Preamble?
100
This is the main duty of the Executive Branch.
What is to enforce the laws?
200
A group of people that share an environment.
What is a community?
200
The first Constitution of the United States. It was the Founding Fathers' first attempt at government. Under this document, the government could not collect taxes and only had one branch of government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
200
This document inspired the U.S Bill of Rights in our Constitution. This document laid out specific rights that citizens have under the king of England.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
200
The first 10 amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
Congress is broken into these two parts.
What is the Senate and House of Representatives?
300
A type of citizen that is from another country and goes through the Naturalization process.
What is a Naturalized citizen?
300
These people were against the creation of the U.S. Constitution unless a Bill of Rights was added to it.
Who were the anti federalists?
300
This Enlightenment thinker came up with the idea of "natural rights" Natural rights are rights that people are born with.
Who was John Locke?
300
The First Amendment gives citizens the right to...
What is the right to Freedom of Speech, religion, press, and assemble peacefully?
300
These nine judges of the Judicial Branch interpret the law. The nine judges are a part of this.
What is the Supreme Court?
400
The oath a person takes at the end of the naturalization process to become a citizen of the United States.
What is the Oath of Allegiance?
400
This document inspired the 5th amendment. It was a document that limited the King's power in England in the year 1215.
What is the Magna Carta?
400
This man wrote the book "Common Sense".
Who was Thomas Paine? AKA T PAINE!
400
The right to remain silent is this amendment.
What is the 5th Amendment?
400
The idea that one branch of government has power over another branch of government is called this.
What are checks and balances?
500
This document contains information about how a city will run. It usually contains some rights and responsibilities of city citizens.
What is a city charter?
500
This document inspired the right of "freedom of religion". According to this document, people should govern themselves with an agreed upon set of rules.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
500
This document was written by Thomas Jefferson during the Revolutionary War. This documents listed grievances that the colonists had with the King of England. It was a "break up" letter between the Colonists and England.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
500
This amendment made it illegal to keep someone from voting based on their race.
What is the 15th amendment?
500
An organization of people which seeks to achieve goals common to its members through the acquisition and exercise of political power.