The American Revolution
The statement that announced that the Colonies were independent from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The branch that can veto laws made by Congress.
What is the executive branch?
What is 2?
The amendment that guarantees your freedom of speech.
What is the 1st amendment?
A government ruled by one king or queen in which power is passed down through the generations of a family.
The event where British soldiers shot into an unarmed crowd of Colonists, killing five.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The group of people who can confirm the president's Supreme Court nominees.
What is the US Senate?
The number of justices on the Supreme Court.
What is 9?
The amendment that requires police to secure a warrant before searching your home for evidence that you committed a crime.
What is the 4th amendment?
The author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The name of the acts that were a set of laws passed by the British to punish the Colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The term used to describe when the USSC declares a law as unconstitutional.
What is "Judicial Review"?
The two types of cases that the judicial branch deals with.
What are civil and criminal cases?
The amendment that protects you from the government chopping off your hands for stealing.
What is the 8th amendment?
The introduction to our Constitution and the section of the document that sets up the purpose and goals of our government.
What is the preamble?
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Two ways the legislative branch can limit the power of the executive branch.
How do you describe when Congress overrides a presidential veto and when Congress impeaches the president?
The type of leader the president is acting as when they attend the funeral of an important person.
What is Chief of State?
The amendment that forbids double-jeopardy.
What is the 5th amendment?
The number of Electoral votes you need to win the Electoral College.
What is 270?
What is the Second Continental Congress?
The roles of the House and Senate in the impeachment process.
What is the process called where (1) the House drafts the articles of impeachment and then (2) the Senate holds a trial of the president where the Senators act as jurors to decide whether or not to convict the president and remove them from office?
The three requirements to be president of the United States.
What are being 35+ years old, being a natural-born US citizen, and being a resident of the US for 14+ years?
The Amendment that gives the states the power to oversee education.
What is the 10th amendment?
The two steps required to change the US Constitution.
What are (1) proposing and (2) ratifying the amendment?