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