Vocabulary
A region controlled by the United States, sends an elected representative to the house, not represented in the Senate (Virgin Islands, Guam)
What is a territory?
The US Constitution and the state constitutions were written using the same basic
What are principles?
Taxes that citizens pay on the money they earn from jobs
What is a personal income tax?
Some things legislatures handle
What are Education, highways, courts, local gov. needs, bills
The capital of South Carolina
What is Columbia?
A political unit that rules itself, but freely chooses to be united with the US, receives money from the Federal government (Puerto Rico)
What is a Commonwealth?
explain how the state government is set up and run
What are state constitutions?
A percentage of money that people pay on goods or services they buy. Different from state to state.
What is a sales tax?
The Governor of South Carolina
Who is Henry McMaster
The capital of Iowa
What is Des Moines?
When Congress agrees that a territory is ready to become a state, it asks the people of the territory to write a state Constitution
What is the Enabling Act?
Two examples of concurrent/ shared powers
What is Make laws borrow money
Establish courts provide for general welfare and public safety Enforce laws make laws
Collect taxes
Federal funds given to the states to spend on specific things through these
What is a Grant?
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
Who is Pamela Evette?
The largest state in the Southwest region
What is Texas?
people elect officials
What is popular sovereignty?
Two examples of powers reserved for the states
regulate trade within state
-conduct elections
-establish local gov.
-maintain schools
The largest expense for most states
What is education?
The Governor's duties are like the duties of this person
Who is the president?
Which states make up the four corner states?
What are Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico
government and officials are never above the law
What is limited government?
Who has the power to set education guidelines?
What is each state?
Another major state expense besides education
What is maintaining highways, roads, and bridges?
The structure of the state court system
What is lower courts, general trial courts, state Supreme Court?
What state do the Sierra Nevada mountains run through?
What is California?