The division of government between state and central government
What is federalism?
100
Movement to end slavery
What is abolition?
200
Current Vice President of the United States
Who is Joe Biden?
200
Two parts of Congress
What is Senate and House of Representatives
200
Number of people on the Supreme Court
What is 9 justices?
200
Amendment that gives citizens the right to bear arms
What is the 2nd Amendment?
200
Major crop grown in the South
What is cotton?
300
Term of the president
What is 4 years?
300
Job of the legislative branch
What is make the laws?
300
Power of the judicial branch to review laws to determine if they agree or disagree with the constitution
What is judicial review?
300
Supreme law of the United States that created a stronger central government and established the 3 branches of government.
What is the US Constitution?
300
Idea that the United States was destined by God to expand west across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
Part of the Cabinet that deals with foreign policy
What is the Department of State?
400
Each state gets their number of members of the House of Representatives based off of this
What is population?
400
Current Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
Who is John Roberts?
400
Limits the power of each branch of government so that each branch of government does not get too powerful
What is checks and balances?
400
Agreement that said the number of slave states and number of free states had to be balanced
What is Missouri Compromise?
500
Age a person needs to be to be elected president
What is 35 years old?
500
Power of the legislative branch to formally accuse a member of government of committing a crime
What is impeachment?
500
Term of a US Supreme Court Justice
What is for life?
500
The US first plan of government that created a weak central government that could not collect taxes
What is the Articles of Confederation?
500
Punishment for the Colonists after the Boston Tea Party that closed Boston Harbor, forced the colonists to pay for the tea, and added more British soldiers