Vocabulary
Early USA
Constitutional Debate
Branches of Government
Bill of Rights
100
Which Amendment protects freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
Which is THE FIRST AMENDMENT
100
True or False; The United States has oldest Constitution in the world?
What is True
100
If the President disagrees with a bill that Congress has passed, the President may reject it with what?
What is a VETO
100
What role does the Executive Branch have in the government?
What is to enforce the laws
100
What rights do the Second Amendment protect?
Which is the rights to bare arms / defend one's self
200
Term that means; a group of states joined together by a formal agreement.
Confederation
200
The Declaration of Independence begins with what?
What is the Preamble
200
Besides representation; what other issue was hotly debated at the Continental Congress?
What was Slavery
200
What role does the Legislative Branch have in the government?
What is make the laws / debate the laws
200
What rights do the Third Amendment protect?
Which is quartering / housing soldiers
300
The United States created three separate branches of Government. This strategy is known as what?
What is: System of Checks & Balances / Separation of Powers
300
The second Continental Congress adopted what as the framework for the new nation of the United States?
What is the Articles of Confederation
300
The Continental Congress decided on a compromise that included slaves but counted them as a fraction. What was this compromise called?
What was the Three-Fifths Compromise
300
What role does the Judicial Branch have in the government?
What is interpret laws / constitutionality
300
What rights do the Fourth Amendment protect?
Which is unlawful search and seizure
400
The belief that the government is created by the people and they agree to live under its laws.
what is popular sovereignty
400
What event in the early years of the republic showed that the Articles of Confederation was too weak?
What was Shay's Rebellion
400
What rights do the Ninth and Tenth Amendment do?
Which is reserves rights to the people and the states
400
Which branch of government in the United States has the power to ENFORCE the laws?
Which is Enforce the laws
400
What rights do the Fifth Amendment protect?
Which is protects defendant from perjury and allows attorney / PLEAD THE FIFTH
500
Relating to a system of government in which the national government shares power with other levels of government, such as the states?
What is Federalism or Federal
500
Who is considered the "Father of the Constitution" because of his influence in writing it?
Who is James Madison
500
Which TWO states came up with the first ideas on how to represent each state in Congress?
Which were Virginia and New Jersey
500
Which branch of government in the United States has the power to INTERPRET the laws in the country.
Which is the Judicial Branch
500
What rights do the Eighth Amendment protect?
Which is protection against excessive or cruel and unusual punishment
600
Phrase which means; a type of organization in which two related parts work together?
What is bi-caramel legislature
600
Madison, Hamilton and John Jay helped write these documents to sway public opinion in favor of a new Constitution?
What was the Federalists Papers
600
Delegates at the Continental Congress rejected both state plans in favor of which state compromise?
Which was Connecticut
600
Which branch in the United States has the power to MAKE laws?
Which is the Legislative Branch
600
What rights do the Sixth & Seventh Amendment protect?
Which is gives rights to defendant in a criminal or civil trial