Important documents
This document introduces the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
The king forced the Colonists to put expensive stamp on all legal documents.
What was the Stamp Act.
This type of government citizens vote to elect their leaders.
What is Democracy?
This Amendment gives you freedom of expression.
What is Amendment 1?
This branch enforces the Laws.
What is the Executive branch?
This document gave freedom to us from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
One way the colonists showed their anger over taxes.
What was the Boston Tea Party.
This type of government has a king or queen.
What is Monarchy?
This Amendment gives you the right to say no to soldiers to come into your house.
What is Amendment 3?
This branch creates the laws.
What is the Legislative branch?
This document that creates our nation's Government.
What is The Constitution?
This Act also allowed British to search people’s houses.
What is the Townshend Revenue Act?
This type of democracy were citizens elect others to serve.
What is the Representative.
This Amendment says you can’t be forced to testify against yourself.
What is the 5th Amendment?
What is the branch were the Judges make the laws.
What is the Judicial branch?
The first ten Amendments of the Constitution.
What is the Bill of rights?
This forced the colonists to allow British soldiers to live in their houses.
What is the Quartering Acts?
What is the Representative.
What is the Anarchy?
If a police wants to take your stuff they must give a reason for it.
What is the 5th Amendment?
Congress is made up of two chambers.
What is the bicameral?
This creates a Legislature called congress and divides it into the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is Article 1 of the Constitution.
The colonists didn't have representatives in England's government.
What is Parlement?
This type of Democracy citizens participate in law making.
What is a direct democracy?
Once you turn 18, The Constitution guarantees that you vote.
What is the 26th Amendment?
What is The person who leads when the V.P isn't available?
Who is the president pro tempore?