Governments
Constitution
Articles of Confederation
Branches of Government
Geography and Maps
100
This type of government is in the United States.
What is a Democracy?
100
The Constitution is this.
What is a plan for government?
100
The Articles of Confederation can be described as this.
What is a loose agreement between the states?
100
This is the number of branches in our government.
What is three?
100
This type of map show landforms.
What is a physical map?
200
This type of government is run by queens and kings.
What is a Monarchy?
200
This man is considered the father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
200
Under the Articles of Confederation each state was this.
What is independent?
200
This branch includes the president.
What is the Executive Branch?
200
This type of map shows boundary lines.
What is a political map?
300
This type of government was in Ancient Rome.
What is a Republic?
300
"We, the people in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty, for ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish the Constitution for the United States of America."
What is the preamble?
300
Tax laws were made by these.
What is each state?
300
This branch includes two houses.
What is the Legislative Branch?
300
These types of maps show specific topics.
What are thematic maps?
400
This type of government is run by one person who has absolute, autocratic control and is often oppressive.
What is Dictatorship?
400
After the constitution was written, this had to happen before it went into effect.
What is ratified?
400
Under the Articles of Confederation each state had this number of votes in Congress.
What is one?
400
These people work in the Supreme Court.
What is a justice?
400
This type of landform is a pointed piece of land that sticks out into a body of water.
What is a cape?
500
This type of government was present in Russia.
What is Communism?
500
The Constitution can also be called this name.
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
500
Under the Articles of Confederation laws could be changed only if this happened.
What is all states agreed?
500
Due to this the branches hold the same amount of power in the government.
What are checks and balances?
500
This type of landform is a flat-topped rock or hill formation with steep sides.
What is a butte?
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