Vocabulary
Abuse of Power
What is Tyranny?
The first President of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
This is the number of Branches in the Government.
What is Three?
This is the number of Amendments in the Bill of Rights.
What is 10 amendments?
List one of the things that the Federalists wanted in the Constitution.
Answers vary, Decision goes to Mr. B.
Government actions that deal with people, places, events, and institutions within the US.
What is Domestic Policy?
George Washington sending the militia to stop the Whiskey Rebellion is an example of this kind of policy.
What is Domestic Policy?
This branch of government makes the laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
What is the name of the group of people that wanted the Constitution to include a list of individual rights?
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
James Madison wanted to make sure this was not in the Constitution.
What is Tyranny?
The collection of strategies a country uses to guide its relationships with other countries.
What is Foreign Policy?
The XYZ affair involved a request by this country to pay a bribe.
This Branch of Government enforces the laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
List two of the freedoms that are protected under the first amendment.
What are the freedom of religion, of speech, of assembly, of press, and the right to petition the government?
This is the number of states that needed to ratify the Constitution in order for it to go into effect.
What is 9 states?
The written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. The First Government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
One of the precedents that George Washington set during his presidency.
What is the 2 term limit, being referred to as President, establishing a cabinet, or delivering a State of the Union address?
The name of the two houses of the Legislative Branch.
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This amendment protects against cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
The Constitution creates this as the highest court in the land.
What is the Supreme Court?
The ability of the Supreme Court to declare a Legislative or Executive act in violation of the Constitution.
What is Judicial Review?
The Alien and Sedition Act raised the years someone needed to be a citizen from five years to this many years.
What is 14 years?
The check that the Executive Branch has on the Legislative Branch.
What is vetoing legislation?
This amendment states that people have rights outside of those stated in the Constitution.
What is amendment 9?