JEOPARDY

JEOPARDYJEOPARDYThree Branches ofGovernment

VocabularyA Constitutional Government

The Bill of RightsThe Constitutional

Convention

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Why did many delegates insist on adding ten amendments to the Constitution soon after it was

ratified?

• To protect the basic rights of the people

What rights are guaranteed to citizens under the First Amendment to the U.S.

Consitution?

• Freedom of religion, speech, press, and the right to assemble

What amendment protects people’s right to have weapons?

• Second amendment

What basic right is stated in the third amendment?

• The government cannot make people house soldiers in peacetime

What amendment states people have other rights that are not

stated in the constitution?

• Ninth amendment

What is the system called that keeps any one branch from becoming too powerful or

misusing its authority?

• Checks and balances

Who builds and manages state highways and parks?

• State governments

What part of the Constitution describes the powers that states

have?

• The Tenth amendment

How can the Executive Branch check the Legislative Branch?

• It can veto a bill passed by Congress

How is the United States a republic?

• The citizens elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf. The people are the source of the governments power.

What is suffrage?

• The right to vote

What does ratify mean?

• To approve

To give up some of what you want is a ?

• compromise

What does amendments mean?

• changes

A group that tries to elect officials who will support its

policies are…

• Political parties

What problem in the United States was highlighted by Shay’s

Rebellion?

• The weakness of the national government

What role did Gouverneur Morris have at the Constitutional

Convention?

• He wrote the Preamble to the Constitution.

What was the first major questions delegates at the

Constitutional Convention try to resolve?

• How should representation in Congress be divided among the states.

What agreement did the delegates at the Constitutional Convention

finally reach under the Great Compromise?

• 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with representation based on population. Both could propose bills, but only the one based on population can introduce tax bills

What issue was settled when delegates agreed to the Three-

Fifths compromise

• Whether or not to count enslaved people when figuring out representation

What branch has hteh power to approve the appointments of

Supreme Court justices?

• Legislative

What branch decides whether laws follow the Constitution.

• Judicial

What branch makes all national laws.

• Legislative

What branch has the power to veto bills.

• Executive

What branch has the power to impeach the President.

• Legislative