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Vocabulary
Branches
British Roots
The Constitution
Government
100
A government that is run by the people.
What is a democracy?
100
Name 2 of the 3 branches of government.
What is Legislative, Judicial, and Executive?
100
The paper listing rules that the British monarch had to follow.
What is the Magna Carta?
100
The first 3 words in the introduction, preamble, of the Constitution.
What is "We the People"?
100
A government whose leader inherited his or her job. Ex. kings, queens
What is a monarchy?
200
A government that is run by one person.
What is a dictatorship?
200
The President makes up this branch of government.
What is the Executive Branch?
200
The paper listing the rights of the British people.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
200
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
The type of government the United States has.
What is a democracy?
300
The paper that declared the colonies' independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
This branch has the power to veto, or reject and send back, a proposed law.
What is the Executive Branch?
300
British government decided to make the colonists pay more ______________.
What are taxes?
300
The 3 branches of government.
What is Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
300
Citizens in a democracy control their government by doing this.
What is voting?
400
The supreme law of the land.
What is the Constitution?
400
The branch that interprets the laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
400
The number of original colonies.
What is 13?
400
The national government and the state governments share power.
What is federalism?
400
The city in which the First Continental Congress met.
What is Philadelphia?
500
Each branch of the government has ways to limit the power of the other branches, which keeps the power equal among all branches.
What are checks and balances?
500
The leader of the executive branch.
Who is the President?
500
The month and day that Congress approved the Declaration of Independence and the United States was born.
What is July 4, 1776?
500
The power of the national government of the United States is divided among three branches.
What is separation of powers?
500
The main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?