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