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