The creation of the United States Constitution was important for this reason.
What is it set up a plan for the nation's government?
100
The United States has this kind of economy.
What is a free market economy?
100
The part of the Constitution that lists many rights and freedoms that Americans have.
What is The Bill of Rights?
100
Love of country.
What is patriotism?
200
You are describing this when you talk about different ways of life such as language, religion, arts, food, or clothing.
What is culture?
200
Under the Constitution, the right to choose leaders and make decisions by this system is an important right.
What is majority rule?
200
When the demand for a product is high it means this.
What is many people want to buy the product.
200
Name at least three rights that all citizens of the United States have.
What is freedom of speech, the press, and religion; The right to petition the government; to vote in elections; to have a trial by jury?
200
A government that gets its power from the people.
What is a republic?
300
When one leaves one country for another.
What is immigrate?
300
The main reason that the United States government collects taxes.
What is to pay the costs of running the government.
300
This is how the main economic activity of the United States has changed over time.
What is in the past, the main economic activity was agriculture. Later, it became manufacturing. Today, it is service industries.
300
Voting is important in a democracy for these reasons.
What is in a democracy, the people elect their leaders by voting. Democracy is based on majority rule. When people vote, they are using their power to govern themselves.
300
Checks and balances.
What are ways for each branch of government to limit, or check, the power of the other branches.
400
Two things that Americans share.
What is patriotism, holidays, monuments.
400
The branches of of the federal government.
What is the Legislative Branch, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Branch.
400
Opportunity cost.
What is what you do not buy in order to buy something else?
400
The right to choose leaders is balanced by the duty to vote in elections. The right to a trial by jury is balanced by this duty.
What is the duty to serve on a jury when called.
400
A democracy.
What is a type a government were people can elect leaders to govern them.
500
Ways the population has changed since the United States became a country.
What is the population has increased. It has become more diverse. It has become more urban than rural. People have moved from northern and central parts of the country to southern and western parts.
500
The leader of each branch of government.
Who is senator is the leader of the Legislative Branch and the Supreme Court Justice is the leader of the Judicial Branch, and the President is the leader of the Executive Branch.
500
The main activities that make up an economy.
What is producing, buying selling and trading goods and services?
500
A signed request asking the government to change an existing law or ask for a new one.
What is the right to petition.
500
The factors of production.
What are natural resources (land, water, minersls, and fuels), capital resources (money buildings, and equipment), and human resources (workers).