The U.S. Constitution Station
Key Government Principles
Stars, Stripes & Smart Stuff
Peace, Protests & Partition
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100

The outline of how the government should function (work).

What is the Constitution?

100

The belief that the power of government resides with the people.

What is popular Sovereignty?

100

A tradition or example set by someone that others follow in the future. (e.g., Washington's two-term limit became a model for future presidents.)

What is a precedent?

100

Leader of the Indian Independence movement.

Who is Mohandas K. Gandhi?

100

This mathematical constant, approximately 3.14159, represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.

What is pi?

200

The introduction to the Constitution is called this.

What is the preamble?

200

DD

We the people in order to form a more perfect _____________.

200

Groups of people who organize to promote shared political ideas.

What are political parties?

200

DD

Disobeying unjust laws peacefully.

200

Animals all breath in ____________ and exhale ______.

What is oxygen, corbon dioxide?

300

This form of government where citizens elect representatives to make decisions.

What is a republic? (republicanism)

300

The executive, legislative, and judicial.

What are the three branches of government?

300

A group of advisors who help the president run the executive branch

What is the Cabinet?

300

Before 1947, India was a colony of this country.

What is Britain?

300

Name 3 negative effects of smoking cigarettes.

Empheysa

lung cancer

COPD

dental damage

stink breath

400

The division of power between state and federal government is called this. 

What is federalism?

400

Found at the end of Article I, Section 8, this clause allows Congress to stretch its powers.

What is the Elastic Clause? (aka the necessary and proper clause)

400

Taxes on imported goods; part of Hamilton’s economic plan to protect American industry.

What are tariffs?

400

These two Indain religious groups often conflicted.

Who are Hindus and Muslims? 

400

Put the following events in chronological (time) order from oldest to most recent. 

The Kennedy assassinition

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

World War I

American Civil War

Fall of the Roman Empire


Fall of the Roman Empire, American Civil War, World War I, The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, The Kennedy assassinition

500

An example of a power that shared by both state and federal government is taxation. This type of power is called this.

What is a concurrent power?

500

This amendment to the constituion states that rights not listed in the constitution belong to the people.

What is the 10th Amendment?

500

At the founding of the United States, this group was associated with a strong central government, trade with Britain, and a loose interpretation of the Constitution.

Who are the Federalists?

500

After the partition Hindus moved to India, and Muslims moved to this country.

What is Pakistan?

500

Words like and, but, and or are this part of speech.

What are conjunctions?