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Government
Economics
Constitution
U.S. Regions
Lagniappe
100
Head of the Executive Branch and the leader of our military
Who is the President of the United States?
100
Word used to describe a shortage
What is scarcity?
100
The introduction to the Constitution
What is the Preamble?
100
An area with common features that set it apart from other areas
What is a region?
100
The plan for our country's government
What is the Constitution?
200
Two branches of the Legislative Branch
What is the Senate and House of Representatives?
200
Money earned after paying taxes and other costs
What is profit?
200
The first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
This U.S. region was once part of the country of Mexico
What is the Southwest?
200
Money that people pay to the government
What are taxes?
300
Creates laws for our country and decides how much money the government will spend
What is the Legislative Branch?
300
Those who provide goods or services to others
What are producers?
300
The year the U.S. Constitution was written
What is 1787?
300
Word that describes the people in one region depending on those in others regions to help meet their needs
What is interdependent?
300
The laws and people that run a country, state, or city
What is government?
400
Highest level court in the Judicial Branch
What is the Supreme Court?
400
The item that is not chosen when someone chooses to buy one item over another.
What is opportunity cost?
400
The Constitution explains these basic beliefs and values of our government
What are the core democratic values?
400
This U.S. region sits along the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico
What is the Southeast?
400
This system makes sure that no government branch gains too much power
What is checks and balances?
500
Another name for the Legislative Branch
What is Congress?
500
Allows people to make their own decisions abouth what to produce or what to buy.
What is the free enterprise system?
500
The Constitution states that our country is this, which means that the people pick representatives to run the government
What is a democratic republic?
500
Helps connects the regions to each other by moving goods or people from one place to another
What is transportation?
500
A person who starts and runs his or her own business
What is an entrepreneur?