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What is the supreme law of the land? Correct Answer: The Constitution What does the Constitution do? Correct Answer: sets up the government, defines the government, protects basic rights of americans The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the constitution. What are these words? Correct Answer: We the People What is an amendment? Correct Answer: a change (to the constitution), an addition (to the constitution) what do we call the first ten amendments to the constitution? Correct Answer: The Bill of Rights
*What is ONE right or freedom from the First Amendment? 1
Name ONE branch or part of the government 2
What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful? Correct Answer: checks and balances, separation of powers Who is in charge of the executive branch? Correct Answer: the President Who makes federal laws? Correct Answer: Congress, Senate and House (of Representatives), (US or national) legislature *What are the TWO parts of the US Congress? Correct Answer: Senate and House (of Representatives) How many US Senators are there? Correct Answer: 100 We elect a US Senator for how many years? Correct Answer: 6 *Who is ONE of your state's US Senators now? congress, legislative, president, executive, the courts, judicial Correct Answer:
The House of Representatives has how many voting members? Correct Answer: 435 We elect a US Representative for how many years? Correct Answer: 2 Name your US representative Correct Answer: MD Congressional Dist 6: John K. Delaney (as of 10/18) Who does a US Senator represent? Correct Answer: all the people of the state Why do some states have more Representatives than other states? Correct Answer: (because of) the state's population We elect a president for how many years Correct Answer: 4
- In what month do we vote for a president? Correct Answer: November
*What is the name of the President of the US now? 4
Correct Answer: advises the president 5
What are TWO cabinet-level positions Correct Answer: (Secretary of) agriculture, commerce, defense, education, energy, health and human services, homeland security, housing and urban development, the interior, labor, state, transportation, the treasury, veterans affairs, attorney general, vice president What does the judicial branch do? Correct Answer: reviews laws, explains laws, resolves disputes (disagreements), decides if a law goes against the constitution what is the highest court in the US? Correct Answer: the Supreme Court How many justices are on the supreme court? Correct Answer: 9 Who is the chief justice of the US now? Correct Answer: John G Roberts Jr (as of 5/20/14) Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is ONE
Under our constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is ONE power of the states? (5) Correct Answer: provide schooling and education, provide protection (police), provide safety (fire depts.), give a driver's license, approve zoning and land use. Who is the governor of your state now? Correct Answer: MD: Martin O'Malley (as of 5/20/14) *What is the capital of your state Correct Answer: MD- Annapolis *What are the two major political parties in the US? Correct Answer: Democratic, Republican What is the political party of the President now? Correct Answer: Democratic (as of 5/20/14) What is the name of the Speaker of the House of Representatives now? Correct Answer: John Boehner (as of 11/18) There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe ONE of
them. 7
*How old do citizens have to be to vote for president? Correct Answer: 18+ 8
What are TWO ways that Americans can participate in their democracy? Correct Answer: vote, join a political party, help with a campaign, join a civic group, join a community group, give an elected official your opinion on an issue, call senators and representatives, publicly support or oppose an issue or policy, run for office, write to a newspaper *When is the last day you can send in federal income tax forms? Correct Answer: April 15 When must all men register for Selective Service? Correct Answer: from 18 to 26 What is ONe reason colonists came to America? Correct Answer: (religious) freedom, economic opportunity, political liberty, escape persecution Who lived in America before Europeans arrived? Correct Answer: Native Americans
Why did the colonists fight the British? Correct Answer: high taxes (taxation without representation, british army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering), they didn't have self government. Who wrote the declaration of independence? Correct Answer: Thomas Jefferson When was the declaration of Independence adopted? Correct Answer: July 4, 1776 There were 13 original states. Name THREE. (13) Correct Answer: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia What happened at the Constitutional Convention? Correct Answer: Constitution was written/founding fathers wrote the constitution When was the constitution written? Correct Answer: 1787
The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the US constitution. Name ONE of the writers. 10
