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Civics: Government
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civics
Instructions:
Answer 36 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Changes
Three-Fifths Compromise
Reserved Powers
Amendments
Natural Rights
2. Two-house
Bicameral
Concurrent Powers
Ratification
Amendment Process
3. The plan agreed to during the writing of the Constitution that counted each slave as three fifths of a person when a state's population was calculated
Natural Rights
Bill of Rights
Impeach
Three-Fifths Compromise
4. The power to take private property for public use
Federalism
Eminent Domain
Double Jeopardy
Impeach
5. Descriptions of situations or conflicts - the issues involved - and the decisions made
Three-Fifths Compromise
Case Studies
Federalists
Republic
6. Assembly
National Convention
Compact
Natural Rights
Poll Tax
7. The right to publish newspapers - magazines - and other materials without governmental restriction
Freedom of the Press
National Convention
Charter
Separation of Church and State
8. A list of citizens' rights
Legislature
Bill of Rights
Charter
Federalism
9. Being placed on trial twice for the same crime
Double Jeopardy
Separation of Powers
Separation of Church and State
Affirmative Action
10. Powers that the Constitution neither gives to Congress nor denies to the states
Federalism
Due Process of Law
Three-Fifths Compromise
Reserved Powers
11. A process by which the government must treat accused persons fairly according to rules established by law
Separation of Powers
Ratification
Due Process of Law
Double Jeopardy
12. The division of power between the states and the federal - or national - government
Double Jeopardy
Reserved Powers
Separation of Powers
Federalism
13. A group of people chosen to make the laws
Legislature
Three-Fifths Compromise
Poll Tax
Reserved Powers
14. The right to express one's opinions publicly
Freedom of Speech
Equal Protection
Ratification
National Convention
15. Means that people must be treated fairly - but it does not mean that everyone must be treated in exactly the same way
Suffrage
National Convention
Federalism
Equal Protection
16. Abuse of power
Concurrent Powers
Poll Tax
Freedom of Speech
Tyranny
17. The way in which changes are added to the Constitution
Amendments
Case Studies
Checks and Balances
Amendment Process
18. Rights they are born with and that no government can take away
Natural Rights
Reserved Powers
Federalism
Amendments
19. The supporters of the Constitution who supported a strong federal - or national - government
Bill of Rights
Double Jeopardy
Federalists
Tyranny
20. Powers shared by federal and state governments
Concurrent Powers
Segregation
Federalists
National Convention
21. The right to vote
Legislature
Suffrage
Federalism
Checks and Balances
22. Approval
Great Compromise
Equal Protection
Eminent Domain
Ratification
23. Accuse
Separation of Powers
Impeach
Bicameral
Amendment Process
24. Dividing government power among legislature - executive - and judicial branches
Separation of Powers
Republic
Anti-Federalists
Tyranny
25. Steps to counteract the effects of past racial discrimination and discrimination against women
Affirmative Action
Freedom of Speech
Anti-Federalists
Federalism
26. Opponents of the Constitution who feared a strong central government
Anti-Federalists
Legislature
Separation of Church and State
Freedom of the Press
27. The plan agreed to during the writing of the Constitution that created the House of Representatives - in which each state was given votes based on its population - and the Senate - in which each state was given equal votes
Checks and Balances
Great Compromise
Federalism
Affirmative Action
28. The traditions passed down to us from generation to generation
Suffrage
Heritage
Direct Democracy
Segregation
29. A document giving permission to create a government
Poll Tax
Reserved Powers
Federalists
Charter
30. The situation in which the government may not favor any religion or establish an official religion
Equal Protection
Amendment Process
Freedom of Speech
Separation of Church and State
31. A government in which representatives were elected to make laws
Republic
Concurrent Powers
Federalists
Three-Fifths Compromise
32. A form of government in which laws are made directly by the citizens
Direct Democracy
Separation of Church and State
Federalists
Amendment Process
33. System of government that gives each branch of government ways to limit the powers of the other two
Ratification
Checks and Balances
Heritage
Charter
34. A written agreement to make and obey laws for the welfare of the group
Reserved Powers
Amendments
Heritage
Compact
35. Separation of blacks and whites in public places such as hotels - schools - restaurants - and trains
Amendment Process
Heritage
Segregation
Tyranny
36. Fee for voting
Poll Tax
Amendment Process
Republic
Due Process of Law