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This was signed to signal the American colonial separation from Britain.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
These are the first ten amendments of the constitution.
This is the most important legislative document in the whole United States.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Another name for the legislative branch.
What is Congress?
Another name for the executive branch.
What is the President?
Another name for the judicial branch.
What is the Supreme Court?
The United States was colonized by this country
What is Britain/England?
This was the first post-colonial government of the United States.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
These are the three branches of government.
What are legislative, executive, and judicial?
The two major political parties in the U.S.
What are Democrat and Republican?
This Amendment provides for freedom of assembly.
What is the 1st Amendment?
Which Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures?
What is the 4th Amendment?
After this conflict, the British began imposing taxes on the American colonists.
What was the French and Indian War?
They vote to elect the president.
Who are the Electoral College?
In this chamber, the numbers of representatives is determined by the population of each state.
What is the House of Representatives?
What were checks and balances?
This is when members of each political party vote on who their candidate will be for the larger, general election.
What is a primary election?
These national health care programs were established during LBJ's Great Society.
What are medicare and medicaid?
What were the Federalist Papers?
A type of government (like the U.S.) where citizens vote on representatives to make laws for them.
What is the representative democracy?
This is a term that describes the sharing of power between the federal and the states' governments.
What is federalism?
These are powers directly granted by the Constitution to Congress.
What are enumerated/expressed powers?
The implementation of a military draft is an example of an ____________ _____________.
Which U.S. president increased the power of the federal government with his New Deal during the Great Depression?
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This was theorized during the Enlightenment - individuals give up freedoms to the government in return for order and protection
What is the social contract?
He was crucial in establishing judicial review with his ruling of Marbury v. Madison.
Who was John Marshall?
This amendment ensures that states cannot deny citizens equal protection of the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Which Supreme Court case led to the end of school segregation in the United States?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The _______-_______-___ are funds provided from the national government to state governments.
What are grants-in-aid?
The _____-______-_____ doctrine declares a separation of church and state.
What is the wall-of-separation doctrine?