Enlightenment
John Locke believed it was the government's duty to protect people's natural rights. What are natural rights according to Locke?
What is Life, Liberty, and Property?
A legislative body with two chambers or houses, such as the U.S. Congress, which consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is a bicameral legislature?
The Revolutionary War was fought between the -
What is the British and the 13 colonists?
This document is known to be the Birth Certificate of the United States
What is the Declaration of Independence?
These individuals favored a strong national/central government that could provide for the common defense at all times.
What is the Federalist?
Federalism creates a power division between -
Niagara Falls is located in this state -
What is New York?
This Enlightenment thinker believed that government should not interfere with individual religion. This led to the political theory of separation of church and state.
What is Voltaire?
An agreement that created a bicameral legislature with proportional representation in the House based on population and equal representation in the Senate.
What is the Great Compromise?
The first example of a bicameral representative government in the colonies was -
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This governing document failed to grant the power to tax or to create courts; it also failed to establish an executive branch capable of enforcing the nation's laws.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
At the Constitutional Convention, there were two plans put forth for representation - Virgina and the New Jersey. What type of representation did each plan advocate for?
What is the New Jersey plan favored equal representation and the Virginia plan favored representation based on population?
This amendment guarentees the right to a trial by jury
What is the 7th amendment?
In the movie Cars, Lightning McQueen's BFF is -
What is Mater?
In 1762, ____________ wrote the Social Contract, where he argues that people and government form a social contract in order to govern.
What is Jean Jaques Rousseau?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution guarantee individual liberties.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The first elected President of the United States of America -
What is George Washington?
On what date was the Declaration of Independence signed?
What is July 4th, 1776?
These individuals believed local government to be more responsive to citizens' needs and insisted that a Bill of Rights was needed to protect individual freedoms.
What is the Anti-Federalist?
The Consitituion lays out two forms of powers for the federal gov -
What is expressed and implied powers?
This athlete is the most followed person on Instagram
What is Cristiano Ronaldo?
In the Declaration of Independence, natural rights were changed to -
What is Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments
What is Federalism?
Leading up to the Revolutionary War, the British were utilizing a policy that allowed the colonies to largely govern themselves and didn’t strictly enforce laws.
What is this period known as?
What is Salutary Neglect?
This governing document declared the supremacy of federal and that the federal government must treat all states alike to avoid conflicts between states and between state and federal government.
What is the US Constitution?
This agreement led to the understanding on how enslaved people would be counted in representation
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
There are a total of ____ governors in America
What is 50?
In The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, from where did Will come?
What is Philadelphia?
Montesquieu believed that government should be separated into branches - which provides a system of checks and balances. What is checks and balances?
What is the right to monitor and limit the other branches?
Powers explicitly granted to the federal government by the Constitution.
What is Expressed Powers (Enumerated Powers) ?
What political slogan represents the motivation behind the 13 colonies forming a revolution?
What is "No taxation without representation?"
Place the documents in the correct historical order -
Articles of Confederation, Bill of Rights, Constitution, Declaration of Independence
What is Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constitution, Bill of Rights?
The Great Compromise is also known as the -
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
Powers that are resereved to the state are guarenteed under the -
What is the 10 Amendment?
The iconic tv show "Friends," the show follows the lives of six friends. What are their names?
What is Monica, Chandler, Joey, Pheobe, Rachel and Ross?