Free Enterprise
Geography
Constitutional Convention
Ideas Behind Constitution
Amendments
100
The acronym TINSTAAFL stands for:
What is There is no such thing as a free lunch?
100
Condition of Earth's atmosphere at any given time and place
What is weather
100
Its goal was to revise the Articles of Confederation
What is the Constitutional Convention
100
The persons who laid the groundwork for us becoming the United States are known as
What is Founding Fathers
100
The first 10 amendments of the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
This term describes the desire, williness, and ability to purchase a product.
What is demand?
200
Half of the Earth is called a
What is a hemisphere?
200
This is where the Constitutional Convention took place
What is Philadelphia?
200
A government in which citizens rule themselves through elected representatives
What is a Republic
200
This amendment prohibited alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
300
NAFTA stands for this
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
300
Area that has little or no moisture or vegetation
What is Desert
300
The plan of government in which power is divided between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
300
The establishment of three branches of government and the idea to keep no branch from becoming more powerful than another
What is separation of powers
300
This amendment gave Washington DC three electoral votes.
What is the 23rd Amendment?
400
The point at which quantity supplied and quantity demanded are equal?
What is equilibrium?
400
A land area that is surrounded by water
What is an island?
400
Sherman's plan for a two house legislature (House of Representatives and a Senate) became known as
What is the Great Compromise?
400
A government in which one person holds all power.
What is a dictatorship or absolute monarchy?
400
This amendments provides or the protection against quartering of soldiers in times of peace.
What is the third amendment?
500
The United States gets most of its income from this source.
What are income taxes?
500
large area of natural grassland with few or no trees or hills
What is a prairie
500
The compromise over how slaves would be counted for representation and taxation was known as __________.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
500
Many of the principles of the Constitution come from the ideas of Locke, Voltaire, and Montesquieu. What era did these men come from
What is the Enlightenment?
500
This amendment gave 18 years the right to vote in federal elections.
What is the 26th amendment?
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