Civics MCAS Quiz

Declaration of Independence (1776)

• Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.
• The document establishing the US as an independent nation, adopted on July 4, 1776. It declared the 13 colonies independent from Britain, offered reasons for the separation laid out the principles for which the Revolution was fought
• -President, Vice President, Cabinet
• a settlement of differences in which each side gives up something

Articles of Confederation

• A group of advisers to the president.
• the first constitution of the United States
• Constitutional division of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, with the legislative branch making law, the executive applying and enforcing the law, and the judiciary interpreting the law
• -Made up of the Senate (2 per state) and the House of Representatives (based on each state's population)

Constitution of the United States

• A group of advisers to the president.
• formal agreements between nations
• the first constitution of the United States
• The foundation of our country's national government; was drafted in Philadelphia in 1787; the Constitution establishes a government with direct authority over all citizens, it defines the powers of the national government, and it establishes protection for the rights of states and of every individual.

Bill of Rights

• A person who is chosen or elected to represent a person or group
• person, book, etc., that gives information
• The first ten amendments to the Constitution
• A proposed or adopted course or principle of action

Federalists

• A person who is chosen or elected to represent a person or group
• Supporters of the U.S. Constitution at the time the states were contemplating its adoption.
• Constitutional division of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, with the legislative branch making law, the executive applying and enforcing the law, and the judiciary interpreting the law
• A basic principle of traditional democratic theory that describes the relationship between the few leaders and the many followers.

Constitutional Convention

• formal agreements between nations
• Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.
• The foundation of our country's national government; was drafted in Philadelphia in 1787; the Constitution establishes a government with direct authority over all citizens, it defines the powers of the national government, and it establishes protection for the rights of states and of every individual.
• person, book, etc., that gives information

Habeas Corpus

• ruled by the people. In a democracy, citizens elect representatives to make and carry out laws.
• Constitutional division of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, with the legislative branch making law, the executive applying and enforcing the law, and the judiciary interpreting the law
• a settlement of differences in which each side gives up something
• Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment

Anti-Federalists

• Opponents of the American Constitution at the time when the states were contemplating its adoption.
• open defiance of authority
• Supporters of the U.S. Constitution at the time the states were contemplating its adoption.
• The document establishing the US as an independent nation, adopted on July 4, 1776. It declared the 13 colonies independent from Britain, offered reasons for the separation laid out the principles for which the Revolution was fought

Delegates

• open defiance of authority
• Opponents of the American Constitution at the time when the states were contemplating its adoption.
• A person who is chosen or elected to represent a person or group
• The document establishing the US as an independent nation, adopted on July 4, 1776. It declared the 13 colonies independent from Britain, offered reasons for the separation laid out the principles for which the Revolution was fought

Federal Government and State Government

• The document establishing the US as an independent nation, adopted on July 4, 1776. It declared the 13 colonies independent from Britain, offered reasons for the separation laid out the principles for which the Revolution was fought
• A person who is chosen or elected to represent a person or group
• to be against something
• Form of government based on the sharing of powers between levels of government; in the U.S. it is between the national and state governments