The American Revolution
Vocabulary
Fill in the Blank
Cause & Effect
Trivia
100
This document stated the case for American independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
Rights that cannot justly be taken away.
What are inalienable rights?
100
Armies sometimes used a ______ to obtain soldiers.
What is a draft?
100
Winning independence removed British rule but immediately created this new political problem.
What is how to govern the new country?
100
This branch of government makes laws.
What is the legislative branch?
200
After independence, Americans faced the challenge of creating this while still protecting the rights they had fought for.
What is a workable government?
200
To formally approve an agreement, constitution, or treaty.
What is ratify?
200
A government can ______ taxes, meaning impose or collect them.
What is levy?
200
Power was divided among three branches partly to prevent this danger.
What is too much power being concentrated in one branch?
200
This branch carries out and enforces laws.
What is the executive branch?
300
This governing document created the basic structure of the new United States government.
What is the Constitution?
300
A system dividing power between the national government and state governments.
What is federalism?
300
The Constitution requires a ______, or minimum number of members, for certain official business.
What is a quorum?
300
Federalism helped solve the problem of balancing power between these two levels of government.
What are the national and state governments?
300
This branch interprets laws and resolves legal disputes.
What is the judicial branch?
400
The Constitution divided authority among legislative, executive, and judicial branches partly to prevent this.
What is too much power gathering in one place?
400
Fighting by small, mobile groups using surprise attacks rather than only formal battles.
What is guerrilla warfare?
400
The president can reject a bill using a ______.
What is a veto?
400
Early arguments over taxes, foreign policy, speech, and state power encouraged the development of these political groups.
What are factions?
400
A meeting of members of a political party or faction can be called this.
What is a caucus?
500
This principle says that the people themselves are the source of government authority.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
The system used by the states to formally elect the president.
What is the Electoral College?
500
Congress can ______ a presidential veto.
What is override?
500
Early political disagreements created lasting arguments over how this founding document should be interpreted.
What is the Constitution?
500
Some states claimed they had the power to do this to federal action they considered invalid.
What is nullify it?