People Movers
Term-inator
Branches of Government
Bill of Rights
Other Amendments
100
They were totally against slavery.
Who are the Quakers?
100
It is a meeting of people.
What is a convention?
100
This branch makes the laws by passing bills.
What is the Legislative Branch?
100
This amendment provides freedom of religion, the press, and speech.
What is the first amendment?
100
The time between amendment 18 and amendment 21 when the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol was illegal.
What is Prohibition?
200
These people attacked the arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts.
Who are the farmers?
200
You have to give up something to have an agreement and move forward.
What is a compromise?
200
The President is at the top of this branch.
What is the Executive Branch?
200
This amendment allows people to have guns for protection.
What is the second amendment?
200
The term used when woman were seeking the power to vote. (Amendment 19)
What is suffrage?
300
This man led a rebellion against the government and the courts because of farm foreclosures and debtors prison.
Who is Daniel Shays?
300
It means to add on.
What is an amendment?
300
The Supreme Court fits into this branch.
What is the Judicial Branch?
300
Amendment three provides this.
What is the right to refuse quartering soldiers?
300
Senators were appointed by the House of Representatives, but because of amendment 16, people become Senators this way.
What is elected by the people?
400
He wrote in the Federalists and later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is John Jay?
400
An item loses its worth.
What is depreciation?
400
These tools make it hard for any one branch to become more powerful than the other.
What are Checks and Balances?
400
This amendment only allows search for this reason.
What is probable cause?
400
Any race can vote now.
What is amendment 15?
500
This man devised the term Natural Rights as in life, liberty, and the pursuit of property. He was an Englishman who had a profound impact on the Patriots.
Who is John Locke?
500
It is two houses or chambers of government.
What is bicameral?
500
This is a way that the President can stop a bill that he thinks will have a bad impact on America.
What is the veto?
500
This means you cannot have your arm ripped off because you punched someone in a public place.
What is cruel and unusual punishment?
500
A new tax on your pay check.
What is the income tax?