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