Chapter 2
What is a change to the Constitution?
What is an amendment?
What is a way of life followed by a group of people?
What is the culture?
What is a plan for governing a country?
What is the Constitution?
What is the name given to the deal we made with France for the purchase of land in North America?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
What is the system of government where the state and the national government share power?
What is the federal government?
What does our countries motto “E Pluribus Unum” mean?
What is Out of many, one?
What is an official member of a country?
What is a citizen?
What is a person that might come and live in a new land?
What is an immigrant?
How do scientists believe that the first people came over to North America?
What is they crossed a land bridge in the Bering Straits?
What is made up of the rules or laws, we follow and the people who run the country?
What is the government?
What do you call it when you make decisions for others that elect you? What is it called when you serve in a type of government where leaders are elected?
What is you represent them? What is a republic?
What is the area that Coronado explored today called? What does the Judicial branch of the government do?
What is New Mexico? What is they interpret our nation’s laws?
What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called? What is our nation’s highest court?
What is the Bill of Rights? What is the Supreme Court?
How long does a Supreme Court Justice serve? What country did La Salle claim the area all along the Mississippi River for?
What is for life? What is for France?
What did Ponce de Leon come looking for? How long is a representative elected for?
What is gold? What is 2 years?
What is the area Hernando De Soto explored called today? What does the Legislative branch of the government do?
What is Florida? What is creating/making our nation’s laws?
What did Marquette and Joliet want to bring to the area around the Mississippi? What was the reason that Columbus came to North America?
What is Christianity? What is to finder shorter trade routes to India?
What did Cartier come looking for? How long is a Senator elected for?
What is riches? What is 6 years?
Where does the national government meet and hold business? What type of government allows every citizen the right to take part in it?
What is Washington D.C.? What is a democracy?
What is one of the states we mentioned that has their name based on a Native American word, or a foreign language?
What is Michigan, Florida, or Kentucky?
What are the three levels of government in the U.S.?
What is the local, state, and national?
What are two jobs of the federal government?
What are maintaining roads, keeping our water clean, and keeping us safe?
What are the three branches of the National government?
What are the Legislative Branch, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Branch?
What are the two men that Thomas Jefferson sent to explore the new territory? What are the jobs of the Executive Branch of the government?
What is Meriwether Lewis and William Clark? What are enforcing our nation’s laws and in charge of our nation’s military?
What are the 6 explorers that came to North America?
Who are Columbus, Hernando De Soto, Cartier, Marquette and Joliet, Coronado, Robert La Salle, and Ponce de Leon?