CE 13B

What are characteristics of most goods and services provided by government?

• They are only available to a few citizens.

• Include such things as interstate highways, public schools, and national defense

• Would not likely be available if individuals had to provide them

• Provide benefits to many simultaneously

The government issues coins and currency to make the exchange of goods and services easy. People accept U.S. coins and currency in exchange for goods and services because they have:

• No other choice

• Confidence in the U.S. government

• Been taught that this is the law and the only way to do it

• No way to regulate "barter and trade"

The attached pictures are all examples of...

• Coins

• Federal Reserve Notes

• Legal contracts

• Government issued checks

Why does the U.S. government issue coins and currency?

• So it can be wealthy

• To maintain control of the U.S. mints

• To make the buying goods and services easy

• To display the portraits of great former presidents

The​ ________ of the branch of the U.S. Government carries out the law.​ (a)  

• Executive Branch

• Legislative Branch

• Judicial Branch

Match the following

• gave people right to vote regardless of race

• 13th Amendment

• abolished slavery

• 14th Amendment

• all persons born or naturalized in U.S. were entitled equal rights

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Ended segregation in public schools

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Allowed "separate but equal" facilities.

• 15th Amendment

Which did the Federalists believe in and which did the Anti Federalists believe?

• Were against approving the Constitution

• Federalists

• Supported the Constitution

• Federalists

• Wanted small local governments

• Anti Federalists

• Wanted to have a strong national republic

• Anti Federalists

Match the economic systems to its characteristics or meaning.

• Centrally owned by the government

• Traditional economy

• Private sector, profit, and minimal gov.

• Free Market

• Public and private sectors

• Mixed economy

• Customs, family, and historical basis

• Command economy

Select the location on the map that was annexed in 1845 which started a major war between the United States and Mexico over disputed territory.

Match the following

• Battle of Saratoga

• Britain recognizes the independence of The United States of America

• Lexington and Concord

• Washington's troops survived brutal winter

• Yorktown

• first shots of the war

• Treaty of Paris

• convinced the French to join the Americans

• Valley Forge

• British army surrendered to Washington