Participatory Civics
Benefits all people rather than an individual or a small group of people.
What is the common good?
Three key ways to describe the 55 delegates that wrote the Constitution.
What is white, man/male, and property owners?
The amendment that grants the protection of multiple freedoms.
Judicial, Executive, and Legislative.
What are the Three Branches of Government?
What is segregation?
Freedoms or protections to which an individual is legally entitled to.
What are rights?
The principle that the branches of government check each other's power.
What are checks and balances?
The name for the first 10 Amendments of the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The presidential cabinet belongs to this branch of government.
What is the executive branch?
The first Black student to graduate from Little Rock Central High School.
Who is Ernest Green?
Participants that look at the underlying causes of problems. They take action to change the system when the system is unjust or unfair to people.
What is a Justice Oriented Participant?
The principle that the people create the government and have the power.
What is popular sovereignty?
The Amendment that granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This is the process of electing the president of the US.
What is the Electoral College?
Making amends by awarding money or supporting those that have been wronged.
What are reparations?
The first written response assessment that MR. EDER had 8th graders do.
What is a letter?
The city where the 55 delegates wrote the Constitution.
What is Philadelphia?
These are called the Reconstruction Amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
If the government were divided into three levels, this would be the middle level of the government.
The Supreme Court case that determined Black Americans should be kept separate from White Americans as long as those facilities were kept equal.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
The 6 Sources of Power.
What is numbers, state action, wealth, ideas, physical force, and social norms.
The only state, of the first 13, that did not send a delegate to write the Constitution.
What is Rhode Island?
The amendment that is most often cited when determining whether or not a state is infringing on an individual’s rights.
What is the 14th amendment?
The only branch of government that is allowed to declare war.
What is the legislative branch?
The year that Jon Burge was fired from the Chicago Police Department.
What is 1993?