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