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Worksheets🇺🇸AMERICAN GOVERNMENT⚖️ Oscar Trejo
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 22mins
which document gives the rights to a jury trial ?
English Bill rights
magna carta
Articles of confederation
Mayflower Compact
which document gave the citizens freedoms and power?
English Bill of rights
Northwest Ordinance
1st Amendment
Virginia Plan
place where laws were made for Virginia - 1st legislative branch in American colonies - people were elected by citizens to make laws?
Virginia plan
Bill of rights
Virginia house of burgesse
Federalist
Rules made by Pilgrims for themselves - start of SELF GOVERNMENT in America - 41 men signed?
Town Meetings and Colonial Assemblies
Mayflower Compact
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Articles of Confederation
1st written constitution in America - written by Thomas Hooker...
Northwest Ordinance
Town Meetings and Colonial Assemblies
Mayflower Compact
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
places citizens met to make rules and laws for their towns in the 13 colonies?
The Great Compromise
Articles of Confederation
Town Meetings and Colonial Assemblies
The Preamble
rules for dividing new land to make a new state OH, MI, IN, WI, IL, MN ?
Shay’s Rebellion
The Federalist Papers
The Bill of Rights
Northwest Ordinance
violent protestors shut down the court system in Massachusetts -showed that national government was very weak??
Antifederalists
Constitutional Convention of 1787
New Jersey Plan
Shay’s Rebellion
meeting where new constitution was made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
US Constitution - Article III
The Great Compromise
Constitutional Convention
The Federalist Papers
plan for each state to have the same number of representatives in Congress?
The Three-Fifths Compromise
New Jersey Plan
US Constitution - Article III
US Constitution - Article V
plan for number of representatives to be based on population?
The Federalist Papers
First Amendment
Virginia Plan
popular sovereignty
plan to have 2 houses of Congress - Senate - 2 from each state House of Reps - based on population
The Great Compromise
The Three-Fifths Compromise
US Constitution - Article VII
Third Amendment
(Southern leaders wanted slaves) (Northern leaders did not want slaves). agreement to decide how slaves would be counted - 5 slaves = 3 people
US Constitution - Article II
individual rights
The Three-Fifths Compromise
separation of powers
first 52 words of Constitution - intro - “We the people . . . “
How US Constitution Was Ratified
First Amendment
The Bill of Rights
The Preamble
describes how legislative branch works - branch that makes the laws -Congress (House of Reps and Senate)?
US Constitution - Article II
US Constitution - Article I
Fourth Amendment
Seventh Amendment
describes how executive branch works - branch that enforces and carries out the laws -President, VP, and cabinet
republicanism
US Constitution - Article IV
US Constitution - Article II
How US Constitution Can be Amended - What is the Process
describes how judicial branch works
-branch that interprets and evaluates the laws
-Supreme Court and US court system
US Constitution - Article IV
US Constitution - Article III
The Federalist Papers
popular sovereignty
explains relationship between states and federal government (federalism)
Fifth Amendment
US Constitution - Article VI
US Constitution - Article V
US Constitution - Article IV
explains how to amend (change) the Constitution if necessary?
limited government
US Constitution - Article V
US Constitution - Article VII
The Three-Fifths Compromise
says the Constitution is the “supreme law of the land” - all elected officials must swear an oath to follow ?
The Federalist Papers
US Constitution - Article IV
Antifederalists
US Constitution - Article VI
describes process to ratify the Constitution?
Town Meetings and Colonial Assemblies
Antifederalists
US Constitution - Article VII
US Constitution - Article IV
wanted a new constitution with stronger national (federal) government?
Antifederalists
Federalists
The Federalist Papers
First Amendment
opposed the Constitution - wanted stronger state governments?
US Constitution - Article IV
US Constitution - Article I
The Federalist Papers
Antifederalists
85 essays written by Federalists to say why Constitution was needed?
The Federalist Papers
First Amendment
Fourth Amendment
Tenth Amendment
-first 10 amendments to the Constitution -added so that antifederalists would support the Constitution/?
republicanism
Seventh Amendment
Second Amendment
The Bill of Rights
freedom of . . . Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, Speech
federalism
Fourth Amendment
First Amendment
limited government
Right to bear arms (own a gun)
Eighth Amendment
Second Amendment
Third Amendment
Fifth Amendment
No quartering - do not have to allow troops in homes
Ninth Amendment
Third Amendment
Fifth Amendment
Fourth Amendment
due process for accused criminals and no double jeopardy (charge with same crime twice)
sixth Amendment
Fifth Amendment
Seventh Amendment
Eighth Amendment
jury trial, fair and speedy trial and right to attorney for criminal cases?
limited government
Fourth Amendment
Seventh Amendment
Sixth Amendment
jury trial in civil cases (divorce, evictions, property damage)
Seventh Amendment
Ninth Amendment
Eighth Amendment
popular sovereignty
No cruel or unusual punishment, no excessive fine/bails
Tenth Amendment
Ninth Amendment
Eighth Amendment
federalism
Rights still given to all that are not listed in the Constitution
How US Constitution Was Ratified
Sixth Amendment
Eighth Amendment
Ninth Amendment
powers not listed in the Constitution are given to the states (federalism) and the people.
limited government
Tenth Amendment
republicanism
federalism
All states voted after 9 of 13 approve, it became law in 1788
How US Constitution Can be Amended - What is the Process
How US Constitution Was Ratified .
limited government
republicanism
proposal first - ⅔ vote amend - ¾ vote
federalism
limited government
Ninth Amendment
How US Constitution Can be Amended - What is the Process
government power is limited to what it can or can’t do
How US Constitution Was Ratified
limited government
popular sovereignty
check and balances
the people rule - “We the people. . .”
limited government
individual rights
popular sovereignty
separation of powers
people elect or vote for representatives and they vote for us
Tenth Amendment
Eighth Amendment
federalism
Republicanism
states share power with federal government - 2 systems
federalism
republicanism
The Federalist Papers
Antifederalists
3 branches of government - legislative, judicial, and executive
Shay’s Rebellion
limited government
separation of powers
Articles of Confederation
each government has the same amount of power - each branch can monitor and correct the other branches.
check and balances
Sixth Amendment
Tenth Amendment
US Constitution - Article II
rights and freedoms of all US citizens - ex: Bill of Rights
popular sovereignty
The Three-Fifths Compromise
US Constitution - Article I
individual rights
1st national constitution - weak government with only 1 branch
Town Meetings and Colonial Assemblies
Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention of 1787
New Jersey Plan
no unreasonable search and seizure of property w/out a warrant
Fourth Amendment
Eighth Amendment
limited government
republicanism
