Vocabulary
When are there increased prices for goods and services combined with a reduced value of money?
What is inflation?
Why did the New Jersey plan favor smaller states?
What is that each state would have one vote in the legislature?
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Which part of Congress has members that served terms of six years?
What is the Senate?
What is the title of the chief of the executive branch in the federal government?
What is the President?
What states were originally independent countries before they were made part of the US?
What are Texas and Hawaii?
What is a legislature that consists of two parts?
What is a bicameral legislature?
Who was the leader of the Constitutional Convention?
Who is George Washington?
What branch of government has the power to propose amendments to the constitution?
What is the Legislative Branch?
Which level of government establishes & maintains schools?
What is the state government?
Who was the youngest president? (43)
Who is John F. Kennedy?
What term means to charge a public official with a crime?
What is impeachment?
Why did the Articles of Confederation not have a chief executive and limit the Confederation Congress' power?
What is to keep the power in the state government (preventing a strong national government)?
What are the three branches of government and their duties?
What is:
1. Legislative - makes laws
2. Executive - carries out and enforces laws
3. Judicial - settles disputes about laws and the people who break laws
Why is the US Constitution considered the "Supreme Law of the Land"?
What is that no other laws or people may go against the US Constitution?
Which state has the oldest constitution still in use?
What is Massachusetts?
What is a proposal for a law?
What is a bill?
What was the compromise at the Constitutional Convention that created a Congress where each state has two Senators and the state population determines the number of House of Representatives?
What is The Great Compromise?
What branch of government has the power to veto bills?
What is the Executive Branch?
What is the name of Ohio's legislature?
What is the General Assembly?
What percent of the world's countries have a bicamaral legislature?
What is 40%?
What is a loose organization or league of states?
What is a confederation?
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Why were some people, known as anti-Federalists, against the new constitution?
What is because the Constitution was too strong & lacked protection for individual rights?
How many executive departments does the president oversee to help carry out laws?
What is 15?
Which level of government collects taxes?
What is concurrent?
What is the total length of the corridors in the Pentagon?
What is 17 miles?