Executive Branch
The normal term length of the U.S. presidency
What is four years?
The pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that pushed for independence from Britain
What is Common Sense?
The two state plans proposed during the convention that were in direct conflict with one another
What are the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?
The term for how the federal government plans to spend its income to meet the goals and objectives of policy makers
What is the federal budget?
The number of versions the North Carolina state constitution has had
What is three?
The only available source of government revenue under the Articles of Confederation
What are state taxes?
The process used to elect the President of the United States
What is the Electoral College?
The incident that led to the first instance of British soldiers killing colonial citizens
What is the Boston Massacre?
The creator of the Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
Who is Roger Sherman?
The economic system where the government has sway over business and establishes an economic safety net
What is socialism?
The term for when voters vote on state constitutional amendments
What is referendum?
The number of states required to amend the Articles of Confederation
What is thirteen?
The term for when the president refuses to sign a bill into law
What is a veto?
The offer of peace the colonists proposed that was rejected by King George III
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
The city that the Constitutional Convention was held in
What is Philadelphia?
Examples of this type of spending include Social Security, Medicare, and military retirement
What is mandatory spending?
The name of the state legislature of North Carolina
What is the General Assembly?
The individual that proposed the Albany Plan of Union as the first central government
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The constitutional amendment that sets the term limit of the presidency
What is the 22nd amendment?
The deadliest battle of the war, it was the battle that showed the colonists that they could defeat the British
What is Bunker Hill?
The lone state that refused to attend the Constitutional Convention
What is Rhode Island?
The term for when the government spends more money than it takes in, resulting in having to borrow money to cover costs
What is a deficit?
The state office equivalent to the vice president
What is lieutenant governor?
The ordinance passed by the Articles of Confederation government that declared new territories west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
The number of Cabinet departments in the executive branch
What is fifteen?
The final battle of the American Revolution
What is Yorktown?
To placate the southern states, the Constitutional Convention agreed to keep the slave trade for this additional amount of time
What is 20 years?
The current U.S. debt as of the new year, rounded to the nearest trillion
What is 36 trillion?
In North Carolina, education is largely funded by this source of revenue
What is the state lottery?
The state where Shays' Rebellion occurred, which ultimately led to the change of government in the early United States
What is Massachusetts?