Vocabulary from this session
Information spread to intentionally deceive, misguide or influence public opinion.
Disinformation
Government in which the people decide the laws and services they want.
Democracy
This punctuation mark indicates the end of a sentence.
A period
Rights everyone has to equal protection under the law.
Civil rights
This man wrote the Declaration of Independence...
Thomas Jefferson
An unfounded explanation of an event or situation that blames the secretive work or sinister, powerful people (such as a government, company, group or even one person).
Conspiracy theory
The U.S. has ______ branches of government.
3
Use this punctuation mark to show when someone or something possesses something.
What is an apostrophe?
The right to vote is called...
Suffrage
The American colonies declared their independence from England in this year...
1776
The state of being kept from possessing, enjoying, or using something: the state of being deprived.
Deprivation
A government in which a single person holds all the power.
Autocracy
Use this punctuation mark at the end of a sentence to indicate excitement or emotion.
What is an exclamation mark?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, and assembly.
First Amendment
The legislative branch is made up of these two "chambers".
A graded or ranked series
hierarchy
The branch of government that makes the laws.
Legislative
This punctuation mark can be used for many things including separating clauses or to separate a city from a state or country.
a comma
The Fourth Amendment requires the government to act fairly and obey the rule of law which is especially important in the criminal justice system. This is called...
Due process
The relationship between the states and the national government in which power is shared.
Federalism
Use of humor and imitation to provide commentary or critique.
Satire
Each branch of the government (executive, legislative, judicial) has duties that restrain the power of the other two branches. This is called...
Checks and balances
Two things that you should always capitalize are...
Nationalities, proper nouns, days of the week, months of the year, etc...
This Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
Brown v. Board of Education
Before the Constitution, the American colonies sought to create a unified government by writing this...
The Articles of Confederation