Different Name, Same Game
Acts of Tyranny
Rights of the People
Who's In Charge Here?
Standing on Business
100

People living in the in United States 1770-Present Day.

Who are colonists, patriots/loyalists, citizens?

100

This act required colonists to house British soldiers, first in barracks, later in their own homes, if space was unavailable.

What is the Quartering Act?

100

This document says "...all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..." and stands on the idea that the consent of the governed grants authority to the government. 

What is the Declaration of Independence?

100

Leader of the executive branch, commander in chief of the military, and person who appoints the Secretaries of State, Treasury, and other cabinet members. 

Who is the President? 

100

This time period in history stands on the idea that freedom is worth fighting for! "Give me liberty or give me death"!

What is the American Revolution?
200

A representative government, elected by its citizens. 

What is a Democratic Republic? 

200

The 4 acts that directly resulted from the Boston Tea Party.

What are the Intolerable Acts?

200

The three unalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence. 

What are the rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness?

200

Served by a committee of one chief and eight associate justices who are appointed for life. 

What is the Supreme Court? 

200

The phrase "no taxation without representation" stands on which foundational idea of America? 

What is the consent of the governed? 

300

These are given to each person by their creator and should be protected by their government. 

What are Natural or Unalienable Rights?

300
These acts were named after the British official in charge of the British Treasury which forced colonists to pay a tax on paper, tea, glass, paint, and lead. 
What are the Townshend Acts? 
300

Rights protected by the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Amendments. 

Freedom of Speech, Press, Assembly, and Religion. Freedom to bear arms. Freedom from forced housing of soldiers. Freedom for unlawful search or seizure. 

300

This group, consisting of two parts, writes bills which need to be approved by the President.

What is Congress comprised of the House of Representatives and the Senate

300

The limitation of power between three branches of government stands on these two principles. 

What are separation of powers and checks & balances?

400

A fee imposed by the government to generate wealth for the country. 

What is a tax or tariff?

400

The first act passed by Parliament that created resentment in the colonists because the lack of representation in government. 

What is the Stamp Act?

400

The rights protected when saying "I plead the 5th". 

What is the right to avoid self-incrimination and to due process of law (fair procedures and trial).

400
When the President stops a bill from being passed. 

What is veto?

400

This overexertion of power by a king or ruling body stands on this idea.

What is tyranny?
500

The mother country who developed a colony in North America. 

Who is Great Britain or England? 

500

This act was implemented to stop criticism of the President, Congress, and the laws they passed. 

What are the Sedition Acts?

500

The supreme law of the land that protects the rights of all its citizens.

What is the US constitution?

500

Before becoming the supreme law of the land, 9 of the 13 states had to do this to the Constitution. 

What is ratify? 

500

This idea is what the US constitution did for the 13 independent states. 

What is unify?