Vocab
A group of people with the power to rule over a community
What is government?
This amendment protects the right to free speech
What is the First Amendment?
This person is the head of the executive branch
Who is the president?
This is the type of government we have (hint: it ends in -ocracy)
What is democracy?
What is the difference between fake news, facts, and opinions
Opinions are what someone believes to be true
Facts are pieces of information which can be proven as true
Fake news is something presenting as a fact that is false
The study of the rights and duties of citizenship
What is civics?
The 19th Amendment was passed in 1920, and gave which group of people which right?
What is the right of women to vote?
This is the branch that includes all the courts in the US
What is the judicial branch?
This is the document that the Founding Fathers agreed to that created the basic principles and laws of the US, determined the powers and duties of the government, and guaranteed certain rights to the people in it
What is the Constitution?
This is the freedom to believe in what you want to without fear. This means that people can worship how they want to.
What is freedom of the religion?
This is a group of citizens chosen to hear and decide the facts of a case in a court of law
What is a jury?
Name two rights protected by the First Amendment that is not the right to free speech
Freedom of press, religion, petition, and assembly
This is the branch that enforces the laws
What is the executive branch?
This is the highest court in the US
What is the Supreme Court?
This is the freedom that the media and journalists have the right to gather and publish information.
What is freedom of the press?
This is the title that the president has for his role in exercising command and control over the armed forces
What is the Commander in Chief?
This is the amendment that gave all all citizens the right to vote, regardless of race, skin color, or whether someone was a slave
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
This is the branch that makes the laws
What is the legislative branch?
Name two types of taxes we learned about
Income tax, property tax, sales task
To run for president, what are the minimum requirements?
You have to be 35 years old and be a natural-born US citizen
The name of the rule in the Fifth Amendment that prohibits anyone from being prosecuted twice for the same crime
What is Double Jeopardy?
This amendment covers five protections, all focusing on protecting people from self-incrimination. They are right to a jury trial, protection against double jeopardy, protection against self-incrimination, right to a fair trial, and protection from the government taking your things without compensation.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
This is what the two parts of the legislative branch are called
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This is the name of the three branches of government
This protects our right to ask the government to fix something we see as not working or to change a policy or practice we don't like, without fear of reprisal or punishment (hint: one of the rights in the First Amendment)