Founding Fathers
Founding Father who led the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Who was George Washington?
Type of economy in the U.S.
What is a Mixed Economy/Free Enterprise system?
27
What is the number of Amendments to the Constitution?
3
What is the number of branches of the U.S. Government?
2- Democrats and Republicans
What is the two major political parties?
Document signed by Founding Fathers asserting that a defined territory is independent.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.
What is capitalism?
First 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Branch responsible for making laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Having more a more traditional view point.
Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd U.S. president.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The quantity of a commodity or service wanted at a specified price and time.
What is demand?
Amendment that abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The Supreme Court is part of this branch of government.
What is the Judicial Branch?
The day when the largest number of U.S. states and territories hold primary elections.
What is Super Tuesday?
Inventor, scientist, printer, politician, diplomat, kite flier, and negotiated the 1783 Treaty Paris but was never a U.S. president.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
To bring into a place or country.
What is import?
Only amendment to the Constitution that repeals a previous amendment.
What is the 21st Amendment?
Branch of government that appoints judges, Cabinet members, can veto laws, and is the face of the country.
What is the Executive Branch?
A list of candidates and proposed laws that voters mark to make choices.
Wrote Common Sense in 1776.
Who was Thomas Paine?
A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
What is an entrepreneur?
Section of the Constitution that describes the powers of the President.
What is Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution?
The reason for the system of shared power in the government.
What are Checks and Balances?
This includes the Left, Center, and Right.
What is the Political Spectrum?