U.S. Civics 1
What is a political party.
The term and term limits of a president.
What is 4 years and 2 terms?
Who believed that in a state of nature, life was a fierce competition in which the strong usually won out, and so government was required to protect the weak.
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
Give the year and name of this Italian explorer who sailed the ocean blue and became famous for not knowing where he was.
Who was Christopher Columbus in 1492?
Name three characters in the story and who they were.
The branch of the government that makes laws.
What is the legislative branch?
Congress is divided up into these two houses.
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
Who believed that human beings were born with a natural right to life, liberty, and property, and that the best government was one which could be changed if the government failed to protect people's rights?
Who was John Locke?
What mistake did Columbus make and why did he make it?
A person who signs a contract to work for a sponsor who will pay his way from Europe to the colonies.
What is an indentured servant?
The branch of government that enforces the law.
What is the executive branch.
The term and term limit of a U.S. Representative who serves in the House of Representatives.
What is 2 years and no term limits?
What is a social contract?
This Spanish conquistador shipwrecked in 1534 on Galveston Island and with a few companions made a long journey back to Mexico City, meeting many indigenous people along the way who told him of cities of gold to the North.
What is an enslaved person?
The branch of the federal government that interprets the law.
The term and term limit of a U.S. Senator.
What is 6 years and no term limits?
Hobbes favored this type of government.
What is a monarchy with absolute power?
This Conquistador led an expedition into New Mexico in 1540-42 in search of the cities of gold.
Who was Francisco Coronado?
The name of George Washington's estate/
What is Mount Vernon?
What is the president's cabinet.
The term of a Supreme Court Justice.
What is a lifetime term?
Locke favored this type of government.
What is a government chosen by the people?
This Spanish Conquistador led the first Spanish settlers into New Mexico in 1598.
The colony George Washington lives in.
What is Virginia?
The group that actually elects the president.
What is the Electoral College.
The Supreme Law of the Land.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The biggest difference between the views of Hobbes and Locke.
Hobbes believed that once people gave up rights to a monarch, they couldn't get them back. Locke believed that if a government did not live up to its end of the social contract, the people could replace the old government with a new one.
What three G's motivated the Spanish to explore?
What is God, Gold, Glory?
What is a seamstress?