Government Structure
The Constitution
The Constitutional Convention
Columbus and Colonization
Columbus and Colonization 2
100
This is what we call the division of power among the three branches of the federal government under the Constitution.
What is the separation of powers?
100
This is the system set up by the Constitution that gives each branch of government the power to check, or limit, the power of the other branches.
What is the checks and balances system?
100
This is a person chosen to represent others, there were some chosen from each state to attend the Constitutional Convention.
What is a delegate?
100
This refers to the movement of cultures and trade between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
This is a land settlement far from the country that rules it.
What is a colony?
200
These are the powers that are left to the individual states, according to the Constitution.
What are the reserved powers?
200
To reject a law, or stop it from being passed, the Constitution gives the President power to do this
What is to veto?
200
This means to officially approve.
What is to ratify?
200
This is a large farm which includes workers who live on the land.
What is a plantation?
200
This is a group of people forming a community.
What is a society?
300
This is the part of the government that decides the meaning of laws.
What is the judicial branch?
300
This is the word for a change or addition to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
300
This is a supporter of a strong national government who was in favor of adopting the Constitution.
What is a federalist?
300
This is a large piece of land taken from its original owners and given to new owners, usually by the King of Spain.
What is an encomienda?
300
This is the reason why Spanish landowners kept slaves.
They kept slaves because they didn't need to pay them for their labor and so they knew they could make a lot of profit by using them.
400
This is the part of the government that passes the laws.
What is the legislative branch?
400
This is the introduction to the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
400
This is someone who was opposed to the Constitution, and who supported a less central government and was in favor of the states having more rights.
What is an Anti-federalist?
400
These are the imaginary lines that measure distance north and south of the Equator.
What is longitude?
400
This is the reason why Columbus sailed west on his first expedition.
He sailed west because he wanted to find a new, faster route to the Indies.
500
This is the part of the government that carries out the laws.
What is the executive branch?
500
These are the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
500
This was the agreement made at the Constitutional Convention to create a Congress with two houses.
What is the Great Compromise?
500
These are the imaginary lines that measure distance east and west of the Prime Meridian.
What is latitude?
500
This is the main way in which Columbus' voyage impacted the Americas.
He showed the Europeans the Americas and the Western Hemisphere. He opened up the area for colonization.
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