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Bodies of Water
Movies
Judicial Branch
Early Years in American Government
Amendments
100
tributaries to this body of water include the Potomac River and the Susquehanna River
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
100
Steven Spielberg film from 1975 involving a great white shark
What is Jaws?
100
the first female Supreme Court justice - she joined the Court in 1981
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
100
our first constitution
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
this amendment is vigorously defended by the NRA
What is the 2nd?
200
this large bay is in northern Canada
What is the Hudson Bay?
200
main character in this movie was Kevin McCallister
What is Home Alone?
200
the name of one of President Obama's appointees to the Supreme Court
Who is Sonia Sotomayor? OR Who is Elena Kagan?
200
this 1786 event in Massachusetts convinced political leaders that a new constitution was needed
What is Shays' Rebellion?
200
this amendment forbids cruel and unusual punishment
What is the 8th?
300
this Asian body of water has seven times the salt of the Great Salt Lake
What is the Dead Sea?
300
movie set in Kansas and a fantasy land with short people and a talking lion
What is the Wizard of Oz?
300
number of justices
What is 9?
300
approved in July, 1776
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
this amendment shortened the period between election day and inauguration
What is the 20th?
400
the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers are tributaries to this river
What is the Ohio?
400
movie focused on passage of the 13th amendment
What is Lincoln?
400
great Chief Justice from 1801-1835
Who is John Marshall?
400
Roger Sherman presented this idea in Philadelphia in 1787
What is the Great Compromise or the Connecticut Compromise?
400
the 3 Civil War amendments
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th?
500
the only Great Lake entirely in the United States
What is Lake Michigan?
500
current movie focused on the story of killing Osama bin Laden
What is Zero Dark Thirty?
500
the only two ways to change a Supreme Court decision
What is another decision or a constitutional amendment?
500
this unique way to elect a president was approved because the Founders did not trust the common people
What is the electoral college?
500
the passage of this amendment in 1967 prevented a presidential crisis when both Agnew and Nixon resigned
What is the 25th?