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Nations working together
Facts
100
The process by which citizens vote for people to represent them.
What is an election?
100
The building where leaders meet to make the laws.
What is the capitol?
100
This branch makes the nation's laws.
What is the legislature?
100
The person who represents his or her government in another country.
Who is an Ambassador?
100
A building or statue that helps people remember a person or an event.
What is a monument?
200
A fee citizens and others pay to the government.
What is a tax?
200
The person elected as head of a state.
Who is the governor?
200
This branch carries out the laws and is headed by the President.
What is the executive branch?
200
An agreement made between nations.
What is a treaty?
200
A symbol of freedom for the United States.
What is the bald eagle or the American flag?
300
The leader to the city's government.
What is a mayor?
300
They write new state laws, rewrite old laws, and vote on laws.
What are lawmakers?
300
This branch decides what the laws mean and whether they obey the Constitution.
What is the judicial branch?
300
A group that helps countries work together.
What is the United Nations?
300
The city that is the capital of Connecticut.
What is Hartford?
400
A group officials who make rules or laws.
What is a council?
400
They make sure laws follow state and national constitutions and decide punishment when laws are broken.
What are judges?
400
A way in which citizens take part in the national government.
What is paying taxes or by voting?
400
He spent much of his life working for equal rights for black South Africans.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
400

The mayor of Hartford, Connecticut.

Who is Mayor Arunan Arulampalam?

500
They decide what the government will do and they choose leaders by voting.
Who are citizens?
500
To stop new laws.
What is veto?
500
The two parts of Congress.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
500
A reason nations work together.
What is for safe travel and trade?
500

The Governor of the state of Connecticut.

Who is Governor Ned Lamont?

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