Constitution
Early America
7th Grade
Watergate
Grab Bag
100

We the people, in order to form a _________

_________   _________ .

What is a more perfect union?

100

These acts allowed customs officials to search whoever they wanted, however they wanted and whenever they wanted.

What are the writs of assistance?

100

The letters in ISIS stand for this.

What is the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria?

100

This is what the plumbers unit was originally formed to do.

What is break into Ellsbergs psychiatrist's office?

100

This was Cesare Borgia's henchman in Romagna.

Who was Ramiro d'orca

200

This was the incentive to get some of the states to ratify the Constitution.

What is the Bill of Rights?

200

This rebellion made people think that the Articles of Confederation were not working.

What was Shay's Rebellion?

200

The initial protests in Hong Kong started because of this action by the Chinese government.

What was interference in the elections?

200

Alexander Butterfield's testimony to the Senate committee revealed the existence of these.

What are the tapes?

200

According to Machiavelli, a ruler should can be feared and not hated by not meddling with what two things of his subjects.

What are their property and their women.

300

In terms of allocating power more effectively than the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution tried to achieve this balancing act.

What was being powerful enough to be effective but not so much so that it becomes tyrannical?

300

This was what the colonists called the punishment for the Boston Tea Party.

What were the Intolerable Acts?

300

The crackdown on the Uyghurs was caused by this concern.

What is a separatist movement?

300

According to the reading, this blew the case of the Watergate Seven wide open.

What was McCord's letter to the judge.

300

He wrote "The Leviathan"

Who was Hobbes?

400

Famous agreement during the Constitutional Convention that led to the forming of two houses of Congress.

What was the Great Compromise?

400

This war made the British start imposing more taxes on the colonists.

What was the French and Indian War?

400

This is the reason for developing the Spratly Islands.

What is to gain more control of the South China Sea.

400

The connection between Chappaquiddik and Watergate.

What is the widespread campaign to smear the Democrats?

400

The no longer relevant third amendment protects you from this.

What is the forced quartering of soldiers?

500

“We the people” connects the Constitution to the Declaration of Independence and to this Philosopher.

Who was John Locke?

500

"when in the course of human events it becomes necessary..."

What is opening of the D of I?

500

Proponent of "laissez faire" economy.

Who was Adam Smith?

500

In the US v. Nixon case, the Supreme Court acknowledged the constitutionality of executive privilege, but said it was not this.

What is absolute?

500

The Declaration of Independence says that if governments do not rule with the consent of the governed that they can be altered or abolished but "prudence dictates that governments long established" should not ...

What is be changed for light or transient reasons.

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