Federalism
This person has the power of veto.
Who is the President?
These are the 3 branches of the federal government.
This branch of the federal government makes the laws.
What is the legislative branch or Congress?
This is the continent most slaves were taken from and brought to the U.S.
What is Africa?
This is the political party of the current U.S. President.
What is Republican?
This determines how many representatives a state gets in the House of Representatives (Congress).
What is population (the number of people they have in that state)?
Who is the President?
This document is the supreme law of the land.
What is the Constitution?
This is the group of people (nationality) that lived in America before the Europeans arrived.
What are Native Americans?
This is a right granted in the first amendment.
What is religion, speech, press, assembly, or petition?
Name a power reserved exclusively for the federal government.
What is printing money (and other answers)?
These are the two parts of Congress.
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
This document declared our independence from Great Britain?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This is a reason that the colonists came to America.
What is religious freedom, economic opportunity, or to escape persecution?
Name one right reserved only for CITIZENS of the United States.
What is the right to RUN FOR FEDERAL OFFICE or SERVE ON JURY or VOTE?
Name a power reserved mainly to the states.
What is education/schools or licenses?
This stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
This is a change or addition to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
This was a reason that the colonists fought the British.
What is taxation without representation, lack of their own government, or the quartering or soldiers in their homes?
Name something you promise to do when you take the oath of allegiance to become a naturalized citizen.
What is support and defend the Constitution, be loyal to the U.S., obey the laws of the U.S., renounce allegiance to your home country, and other answers?
Once elected to office, this is who a U.S. Senator represents.
What is all the people of the state in which they ran for office?
Name a function of the judicial branch.
What is reviews laws or resolves disputes?
This document sets up the government and protects basic rights.
What is the Constitution?
This was a cause that led to the Civil War.
What is economic reasons, slavery, or states' rights?
This is the general purpose of the President's cabinet.
What is "advises the President"?