Citizenship & Vocabulary
Foundations of Government
U.S. Constitution
Bill of Rights
Legislative Branch
100
A member of a community who owes loyalty to a government and is entitled to the protection of that government
What is a CITIZEN?
100
The Magna Carta was important for establishing this type of government.
What is a LIMITED GOVERNMENT?
100
The Great Compromise proposed by the committee headed by Roger Sherman called for this type of Congress.
What is a BICAMERAL CONGRESS?
100
This level of government holds the highest authority in the land.
What is the NATIONAL LEVEL?
100
The two houses of Congress.
What is the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE SENATE?
200
Another word for "to vote."
What is SUFFRAGE?
200
How colonists responded to the Stamp Act.
What is BY BOYCOTTING BRITISH GOODS?
200
The group of people who believed that the Constitution would be too strong and would have the power to overwhelm the states.
Who are the ANTI-FEDERALISTS?
200
The amendment that protects your right to practice your religion freely.
What is the FIRST AMENDMENT?
200
The leader of the House of Representatives.
What is the SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE?
300
A presidential rejection of a bill.
What is a VETO?
300
These were acts (laws) that were meant to punish Massachusetts, especially Boston, for resisting British rule.
What are the INTOLERABLE ACTS?
300
This had to be promised to the Anti-Federalists in order to get them to sign the Constitution.
What is the BILL OF RIGHTS?
300
The amendment that protects your privacy by requiring a police officer to have a search warrant to enter your home when looking for evidence.
What is the FOURTH AMENDMENT?
300
After passing through committee a bill moves (on the floor) to ? ?.
What is FLOOR DEBATE?
400
A proposed law.
What is a BILL?
400
He made a case for drawing independence in the pamphlet "Common Sense."
Who is THOMAS PAINE?
400
The statement in the Preamble of the Constitution which means "Government receives its power from the people and exists to serve them"
What is "WE THE PEOPLE?"
400
These two amendments extended suffrage to all men and women.
What are the 15th and 19th Amendment?
400
These leaders of the 15 Executive Departments help advise the President.
What is the PRESIDENT'S CABINET?
500
The process by which a legal alien becomes a citizen in our country.
What is NATURALIZATION?
500
This famous political document was signed on July 4, 1776.
What is the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE?
500
The constitutional principle helps prevent one branch of government from becoming more powerful than the other two.
What is CHECKS AND BALANCES?
500
The amendment that states that powers not given to the national government by the Constitution must be reserved to the states or people.
What is the 10TH AMENDMENT?
500
Where a bill travels to after it is introduced by a lawmaker.
What is to COMMITTEE?
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