What are the Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch, and the Judicial Branch?
100
This is the present President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
100
To ratify the Constitution means to _____________ it.
What is approve?
100
This amendment protects the right to free speech.
What is the first amendment?
100
The name of the war that gave the United States of America independence.
What is the American Revolution or Revolutionary War?
200
This branch enforces the law.
What is the Executive Branch?
200
Who wrote the preamble to the Constitution?
Governor Morris
200
The system in which the branches of government check each other to assure no one branch becomes too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
200
What was the name of the meeting that decided how representation in Congress should be divided among the states?
At the Constitutional Convention
200
Colonists sent King George the III this document to declare their independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
This branch decides whether laws follow the Constitution.
What is the judicial branch?
300
What was the problem highlighted by Shay's Rebellion?
a. poor treatment of Native Americans
b. weakness of the national government
c. collecting taxes
d. need for improved transportation
b. weakness of the national government
300
The official written plan of government of the United States.
What is the Constitution?
300
Who shared the power under the federal system?
a. state and local governments
b. national and state governments
c. national and local governments
b. national and state governments
300
Who were the Patriots and who were the Loyalists.
Patriots - supported independence
Loyalists - were loyal to the king
400
This person has the power to veto bills.
Who is the President?
400
This is the present Governor of North Dakota.
Who is Governor Jack Dalrymple?
400
Supporters of the Constitution.
What are Federalists?
400
Delegates insisted on protecting the basic rights of people by adding what to the Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
400
Where were the first two battles of the American Revolution.
At Lexington and Concord
500
This branch makes the laws.
What is the legislative branch?
500
These three people represent the state of North Dakota in Washington DC.
Who are Rick Berg, Kent Conrad, and John Hoven.
500
The idea that the government gets its power from the people.
What is popular sovereignty.
500
This was added to the Constitution to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
500
What religious group settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts?