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Law and Order
Government Is for All of Us
Levels of Government
Branches of Government
Captions, Charts, and Maps
100
This is the first event that led to the town of Get Rich.
What is a miner found a gold nugget at the edge of a river?
100
This is who governments help.
What are people just like you?
100
This is the level of government that makes laws for everyone in the country.
What is national government?
100
This branch of government decides what the laws mean and what the punishments should be for people who break the laws.
What is the judicial branch?
100
This is the level of government missing from the chart on page 159.
What is tribal government?
200
This superlative adjective describes which people go their way in Get Rich.
What is meanest?
200
These make things run smoothly and make things safer.
What are rules?
200
This is the level of government that makes laws for just the people who live in Washington.
What is state government?
200
This branch of government carries out the laws and was led by Barack Obama until January of this year.
What is the executive branch?
200
No matter what state, county, or town you live in, you must follow the laws made here by our national government.
What is the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.?
300
This is who was safe in the town of Get Rich.
Who is no one?
300
This is one of the most important things our government does.
What is protect our rights?
300
This important document is still the plan for how our state government should run.
What is a constitution?
300
This branch of government makes the laws and includes the Senate and the House of Representatives (Congress).
What is the legislative branch?
300
This is the three-dimensional figure used to display the levels of government on page 154.
What is a pyramid?
400
This is what enforce means.
What is to make people obey?
400
These are the two personal rights mentioned in this section.
What are a right to state your opinion without being arrested, and a right to belong to the religion of your choice?
400
This type of government has sovereignty, or self-rule, is separate from state and local governments, and can make its own laws.
What is tribal government?
400
This system makes sure that no single branch of government becomes too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
400
This is what you would have if the two people mentioned in the caption on page 154 ended up at the location shown on the next page.
What is a firefighter and police officer in the Lincoln County Courthouse in Davenport?
500
This is the number of Key Ideas multiplied by the number of Words to Understand multiplied by the number of questions asked on page 152.
What is 126?
500
This are the two things the schools, police and fire departments, libraries, parks, swimming pools, roads, and sidewalks have in common.
What is they are public and provided by the government?
500
These are the six things tribal governments can do.
What are make laws, tax citizens, manage activities on tribal lands, build schools, have police forces, and issue license plates?
500
This is what each branch of government does to the others.
What is limit their power?
500
This is the number of Washington's 39 counties where the county and its county seat have the same name.
What is 5? (Spokane, Asotin, Walla Walla, Okanogan, and Yakima)