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Vocab.
Article's of Confederation
Constitution
Election
Major Principles of Government
100
To ensure.
What is to guarantee?
100
A weakness in the Articles of Confederation.
What is lack of power, lack of money, or the process of making laws.
100
The preamble, the articles, and the amendments are related because ...
Why are they three main parts of the constitution?
100
Finish this sentence Donald J. Trump won the ...
Who won the electoral college or 2016 election?
100
Name one One major principle of government is ...
What is popular sovereignty, limited government, separation of powers, checks and balances, or federalism.
200
Concurrent Powers
What are powers that states and the federal government both have?
200
Finish the sentence The United States could not repay their debt because they couldn't ...
Why couldn't they collect taxes?
200
Fill in the blank. There are twenty-seven __________ in the constitution.
What are amendments?
200
Finish this sentence Hillary R. Clinton won the ...
Who won the popular vote?
200
Framers wanted the constitution to be strong, but not to strong so we have _______ __________.
What is a limited government.
300
Reserved Powers
What are powers that only states have.
300
Fill in the blank ______ _________ was caused because of the government's inability to enforce laws.
What caused Shays's rebellion?
300
The first ten amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights.
300
The Libertarian party candidate.
Who is Gary Johnson?
300
The person that believed in separation in powers.
Who is Montesquieu.
400
Slander.
What is a spoken lie?
400
Great Britain made the United States fear a strong government, so the Articles of Confederation were a much weaker one.
Why were the Articles of Confederation a weak government.
400
Fill in the blank. There are seven ________ in the constitution.
What are the articles?
400
The Green party candidate.
Who is Jill Stein?
400
It gives each branch of government the power to check if the other branches have too much power.
What is a system of checks and balances?
500
Civil liberty.
What is the ability to think and act without government interference.
500
Two laws that were passed During the time of the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance?
500
Fill in the blank Two-thirds of the fifty states or two-thirds of both houses of congress must petition to create a new __________.
What is an amendment?
500
The reason this election is historic.
Why did Donald Trump have no experience?
500
The government getting it's right to govern from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?