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What do people set up in communities all around the world?
governments
100
What do people need to make laws?
governments
100
Police officers make sure people follow what?
laws
100
Who hires police officers?
The government
100
Who is the government of the United States is run by?
Its people
200
What type of government do the people vote to choose who leads the community, state, and nation?
Democracy
200
What form of government does the United States have?
Democracy
200
In the 1700s, King George III and the British government ruled the colonies where?
In North America
200
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
200
What does liberty mean?
freedom
300
What document stated that a government must protect citizens' rights?
The Declaration of Independence
300
What was the war called against Great Britain to win the people's rights?
American Reolution
300
What year did we win the American Revolution?
1783
300
Where does the American government get its power from?
The people
300
In 1788 the U.S. Constituttion became the new plan of
government
400
How many states had to sign the constitution before it could become a law?
nine
400
What word means to speak for?
represent
400
After the war the states faced what?
problems
400
What is another word for freedom?
liberty
400
Some laws help people stay what?
safe
500
What was the main goal of the Declaration of Independence?
to gain freedom from Great Britain
500
What can people vote on that everyone must follow?
laws
500
What was written because the colonists wanted freedom from Great Britain?
The Declaration of Inedependence
500
What was the plan of government that would bring the country together?
U.S. Constitution
500
Firefighters work to protect people and their what?
property