Citizenship Detective
Blast from the Past
Documents!
Documents!
Documents!
We Declare!
Making of America
Governmental Systems
100

Define Obligation

What is something citizens must do according to the law?

100

Important idea from Baron de Montesquieu 

What is separation of powers?

100

Define limited government 

What is government power is limited?

100

Author of the Declaration of Independence

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

100

Document that replaced the Articles of Confederation

What is the U.S. Constitution?

100

Define system of government

What is how power is organized in a government?

200

Define Responsibility 

What something citizens should do, but won't get in trouble if they don't?

200

Important ideas from John Locke

What is social contract and natural law (rights)?

200

Define due process of the law

What is all people are treated fairly and equally according to the law?

200

Purpose of the Declaration of Independence

What is to announce to the world that the colonies are now an independent country?
200

America's first attempt at a government

What is the Articles of Confederation?

200

The system of government in the United States

Double your points!: The type of government in the United States

What is a federal system?

Double your points!: What is a republic?

300

Define naturalization

What is the process by which someone can become a U.S. citizen?

300

The natural rights according to John Locke

What is life, liberty, and property?

300

The main purpose of the Magna Carta

What is limit the power of the king of England?

300

Who was the Declaration of Independence addressed to

Who is King George III of England?

300

Group that wanted to ratify the U.S. Constitution without changes

Who are the Federalists?

300

System of government where power is shared between a central government and smaller state governments

What is a federal system?

400

The two types of citizens in the United States

What is natural born and naturalized?

400

Define rule of law

What is nobody is above the law?

400

The purposes of the English Bill of rights

(double points in you get both!!)

What is further limit the power of the king and protect the rights of British citizens
400

The unalienable rights

What is life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness?

400

Group that insisted the Bill of Rights be added to the U.S. Constitution

Who are the Anti-federalists?

400

System of government where power is mostly held by smaller state governments

What is a confederation?

500

Identify if this person is a citizen. If so, identify if it is by Law of Blood or Law of Soil:

A man born in Canada to French parents.

What is not a citizen?

500

Culture that is considered the birthplace of democracy

What is Ancient Greece?

500

Why the Pilgrims wrote the Mayflower Compact

What is to establish self-government/set-up their new colony?

500

What can happen if the government breaks the social contract

What is the people can alter or abolish it?

500

Even that exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

What is Shay's Rebellion?

500

System if government where power is mostly held by a strong central government 

What is a unitary system?

600

Identify if this person is a citizen. If so, identify if it is by Law of Blood or Law of Soil:

A woman born in Puerto Rico to Mexican parents

What is a citizen because of law of soil?

600

Culture that is known being a republic and establishing Rule of Law

What is Ancient Rome?

600

Main idea from Thomas Paine's Common Sense

What is representative self-government?

600

Grievance in the Declaration that directly addresses the Quartering Act

What is housing (quartering) soldiers in times of peace?

600

Two branches of government that did not exist under the Articles of Confederation

What are the executive (president) and Judicial (courts) branches?

600

Document that established the first Federal government in the world

What is the U.S. Constitution?