Random Unit 3 Things
The 3 levels of government
What is local, state, and national/federal?
Group of founding fathers who opposed the Articles of Confederation and argued for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution
Who are the Federalists?
Define representative government
Double Points: What culture gave us the idea of representative government?
What is a government where the people elect representatives to made decisions for them?
Double points: What is Ancient Rome?
An Obligation of Citizenship
What is paying taxes or obeying laws or jury duty or selective service?
The type government in the United States
Double Points: System of government in the United States
What is a Constitutional Republic?
Double Points: What is a Federal system?
Separation of Powers or Checks and Balances:
The president appoints a new Supreme Court Justice who is confirmed by the Senate
Double Points: The branches depicted in the scenario above (must have all to get the points)
What is checks and balances?
Double Points: What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
Group of founding fathers who argued against the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and advocated for the addition of the Bill of Rights
Who are the anti-federalists?
Define due process of law
What is the rights of the accused to be treated fairly and equally under the law?
A responsibility of citizenship
What is voting or attending a civics meeting or running for office?
System or type:
Confederal government
Double Points: define Confederal government
What is a system?
Double Points: What is a system where states control most of the power?
The jobs of the 3 branches of government (name the branch and the job)
What is legislative branch makes the law, executive branch enforces the laws, and judicial branch interprets the laws?
The Articles of Confederation
Double Points: The event that exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
What is the first attempted government in the United States?
Double Points: What is Shay's Rebellion?
The two Enlightenment thinkers that influenced America
Double Points: The 3 natural rights
Who are John Locke and Baron de Montesquieu?
Double Points: What are life, liberty, and property?
Define naturalization
Double Points: Define permanent resident
What is the process people go through to become an American citizen?
Double Points: What is a person who lives in the U.S. legally, but is NOT a citizen?
System or Type:
Democracy
Double Points: Define Democracy
What is a type?
Double Points: What is a government run for the people by the people?
What are state and federal courts?
The branches of government that were missing under the Articles of Confederation
What are the Executive and Judicial branches?
The main idea in Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Double Points: The year Common Sense was published
What is representative self-government?
Double points: What is 1776?
Two ways to be a natural-born citizen
What is Law of Blood and Law of Soil?
System or Type:
Unitary government
Double Points: Define Unitary government
What is a system?
Double Points: What is a system of government where a strong central government has all the power?
Jurisdiction trial courts have
Double Points: Jurisdiction appellate courts have
What is original jurisdiction?
Double Points: What is appellate Jurisdiction?
What the Declaration of Independence declared to the world
Double Points: Author of the Declaration of Independence
Triple Points: America's Birthday (full date)
What that America is a free and Independence country/nation?
Double Points: Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Triple Points: What is July 4th, 1776?
Define Judeo-Christian Tradition
What is the shared cultural beliefs and practices of Judaism and Christianity?
Two types of citizens in the U.S.
Double Points: Name the amendment to the Constitution that defines citizenship
What is natural born and naturalized?
Double Points: What is the 14th Amendment?
System or type:
Theocracy
Double Points: Define Theocracy
What is a type?
Double Points: What is a government that follows a religious institution?