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