U.S. Citizenship Test 1
What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
Separation of powers
Checks and balances
What is the supreme law of the land?
What is the Constitution?
What is one right in the First Amendment?
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Religion
Freedom of Petition
Freedom of Assembly
Freedom of Press
Name one of your senators.
Who is Fetterman/McCormick?
This branch is bicameral.
What is the legislative branch?
This ocean is west of Oregon.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
How many Amendments in the Constitution?
27
Who makes federal laws?
What is Congress?
Senate and House of Representatives
The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. This is one of the writers.
Who is James Madison/John Jay/Alexander Hamilton?
What are the first three words of the Constitution?
What is We the People?
What did the Declaration of Independence do?
Declared independence from Great Britain.
Name your Congressperson.
Who is Mary Gay Scanlon?
This is one American Indian tribe in the United States.
Who are the Cherokee?
What is an amendment?
What is a change or addition to the Constitution?
What are the three rights in the Declaration of Independence?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Who is your governor?
Who is Josh Shapiro?
The number of justices on the Supreme Court today.
What is 9?
What are the first 10 amendments?
What are the Bill of Rights?
What is the economic system in the United States?
What is capitalist economy?
What is a market economy?
What is the "rule of law"?
Everyone must obey the law.
Leaders must obey the law.
Government must obey the law.
No one is above the law.