Vocab
A group of people with the power to rule over a community
What is government?
This amendment protects the right to free speech
What is the First Amendment?
This person is the head of the executive branch
Who is the president?
This is the type of government we have (hint: it ends in -ocracy)
What is democracy?
This is the freedom to believe in what you want to without fear. This means that people can worship how they want to.
What is freedom of religion?
The study of the rights and duties of citizenship
What is civics?
The 19th Amendment was passed in 1920, and gave which group of people which right?
What is the right of women to vote?
This is the branch that includes all the courts in the US
What is the judicial branch?
This is the document that the Founding Fathers agreed to that created the basic principles and laws of the US, determined the powers and duties of the government, and guaranteed certain rights to the people in it
What is the Constitution?
This is the freedom that the media and journalists have the right to gather and publish information.
This is a group of citizens chosen to hear and decide the facts of a case in a court of law
What is a jury?
This is the amendment that protects against cruel and unusual punishment
What is the Eighth Amendment?
This is the branch that enforces the laws
What is the executive branch?
This is the highest court in the US
What is the Supreme Court?
A legal principle which guarantees any individual the right to refuse to answer questions from law enforcement officers or court officials
What is the right to remain silent?
This is the title that the president has for his role in exercising command and control over the armed forces
What is the Commander in Chief?
This is the amendment that gave black men the right to vote
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
This is the branch that makes the laws
What is the legislative branch?
This is the difference between a direct and representative democracy
What is a system where all people make policy decisions directly (direct), instead of choosing people to make them on their behalf (representative)
Name two rights protected by the First Amendment that is not the right to free speech
Freedom of press, religion, petition, and assembly
The name of the rule in the Fifth Amendment that prohibits anyone from being prosecuted twice for the same crime
What is Double Jeopardy?
This is the amendment that protects the right to remain silent
What is the Fifth Amendment?
This is what the two parts of the legislative branch are called
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This is the name of the three branches of government
This amendment protects against cruel and unusual punishment
What is the Eighth Amendment?