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Bill of Rights
Colonial Unrest
Articles or Constitution?
Six Principles
Checks and Balances
100
Name two freedoms from the First Amendment
What is freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petitioning the government?
100
This event involved the death of 5 civilians at the hands of British soldiers.
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
No chief executive
What is Articles of Confederation?
100
The idea that the people are in control.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
How can the executive check the legislative?

What is a veto?

200
This amendment says the police can't search you without a warrant.
What is Amendment IV?
200
This battle was the first act of war in the Revolutionary War.
What is Lexington and Concord?
200
Federal government has no power to collect taxes.
What is Articles of Confederation?
200
The idea that each branch has certain powers, but each branch can block the other in a struggle for power.
What is checks and balances?
200

This is how the Senate can check the President's federal nominations.

What is refuse to appoint them?

300
This amendment says you have a right to a speedy and fair trial by your peers.
What is Amendment VI?
300
These acts closed down the Boston Harbor in response to the Boston Tea Party.
What is The Intolerable Acts?
300
These people supported passage of the new Constitution.
What are Federalists?
300
This is the word that means "Division of power between the federal and state governments."
What is federalism?
300

This is how the judicial branch checks the other two branches.

What is rules laws unconstitutional?

400
This amendment says "all rights not given to the federal government are given to the states."
What is Amendment X?
400
This proclamation said that colonists could not move west beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
What is The Proclamation of 1763?
400
Slaves counted as 3/5 of a person for the population count.
What is the US Constitution?
400
The idea that the court has the right to determine if a law is constitutional or not.
What is judicial review?
400

This is how the Senate checks the judicial branch.

What is they appoint them to their positions.
500
This amendment says you don't have to be a witness against yourself, you can call witnesses to your trial, and you can't be tried twice for the same crime.
What is Amendment V?
500
This act made it so colonists had to give soldiers lodging and clothes if they asked for it, and is the basis of the Third Amendment.
What is the Quartering Act?
500
This compromise led to the creation of two Houses of Congress: The Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is the Great Compromise?
500
Who confirms important federal positions like judges and cabinet members?
What is the Senate?
500

How does the legislative branch check the power of both the judicial and the executive in the same way?

What is impeachment?