7.04A US Government

Match the following

• Great Compromise

• part of government with the authority to propose and write laws

• Judicial Branch

• part of the Constitution that counted enslaved people as a fraction of a free person when determining a state’s population for representation and taxes

• Legislative Branch

• part of government with the authority to approve and enforce the laws

• Executive Branch

• agreement that created a bicameral legislature in which all states had an equal number of votes in the Senate and a varying number of votes in the House of Representatives

• 3/5 Compromise

• part of government with the authority to interpret the meaning and consequences of laws

Match the following

• Anti-Federalists

• group who thought states should have more power than the central government; wanted a guaranteed list of individual rights

• Federalists

• group who thought the central government should have more power than individual states; believed checks and balances protected individual rights

• candidate

• the group who officially elect the President; created to balance the impact of states with varying populations

• cabinet

• a person campaigning for an elected office

• Electoral College

• group of people who provide advice to the executive branch

Match the following

• separation of powers

• system created to make sure no branch of government can become too powerful

• federalism

• the ability of the Supreme Court to determine if laws or actions violate the Constitution

• Judicial Review

• the division of power into three branches based on the type of power

• popular sovereignty

• the ability of the citizens to control the government by voting for candidates who promise to act on the citizens’ concerns

• Checks and Balances

• the division of power between different levels of government based on the amount of power

Match the following

• unconstitutional

• the idea that something violates the Constitution and is illegal

• the Preamble

• the “introduction” to the Constitution; lays out the goals of the government

• amendment

• a formal change to the Constitution; added to protect more individual rights

• States’ Rights

• the idea that states have their own power (that some people argue should be stronger than the federal government’s power)

• articles

• the “body paragraphs” of the Constitution that create rules for the government to follow

Match the following

• ratify / ratification

• to question; to put a government official on trial to see if they committed a crime

• veto

• to officially approve of something

• impeach

• the Legislative branch’s ability to cancel a veto

• compromise

• the Executive branch’s ability to cancel/forbid a bill from becoming a law

• override

• to settle a disagreement by having both sides give up some of their demands

Match the following

• the draft

• the government’s ability to force people to become soldiers during a national emergency 

• Constitutional Convention

• an official count of the population; when the __ changes, representation in the House of Representatives may change

• Northwest Ordinances

• laws that led to the creation of town and state governments in the land around the Great Lakes

• jury duty

• a responsibility of citizens to the help the Judicial branch determine appropriate consequences to laws

• census

• held in 1787; purpose was to revise the Articles of Confederation

Match the following

• Senate

• a political party election to determine that party’s strongest candidate

• Miranda v. Arizona

• the half of Congress in which state representation is based on the state’s population

• primary

• disgruntled farmer from Massachusetts who led a rebellion against the state; he exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

• House of Representatives

• the half of Congress in which state representation is based on all states being equal

• Daniel Shays

• a Supreme Court case that emphasized the importance of “due process” (the government following the laws, too)

Match the following

• Bill of Rights

• a proposed law; created by the legislative branch and approved by the executive branch

• Articles of Confederation

• name for the first ten amendments to the Constitution

• appeal

• having two parts to a legislative body

• bicameral

• to ask or request something; the Supreme Court is a court of __ because people must ask the Court to review their case that was already decided by another court

• bill

• the first U.S. government; the central government was too weak to solve most issues that arose

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Executive Branch

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(b) Legislative Branch

,

(c) Judicial Branch

• approve judges

• enforce laws

• nominate judges

• judicial review

• interprets laws

• write laws

• override vetoes

• approve or veto bills

• declares things are unconstitutional

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Federal Level

,

(b) State Level

,

(c) Local Level

,

(d) All Levels

• print money

• issue drivers' licences

• regulate public transportation

• issue taxes

• building codes

• maintain public parks

• declare war or peace

• build roads

• set education standards