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