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3. $100 Question from Vocab Terms
The constitutional principle that divides power between nations and state governments

4. $100 Answer from Vocab Terms
What is federalism?

5. $200 Question from Vocab Terms
The constitution divided power between the branches (legislative, executive, and judicial) with independent responsibilities

6. $200 Answer from Vocab Terms
What is SEPARATION OF POWERS?

7. $300 Question from Vocab Terms
This principle is demonstrated by fact that the president can veto a law proposed by Congress

8. $300 Answer from Vocab Terms
What are CHECKS AND BALANCES?

9. $400 Question from Vocab Terms
A lack of a permanent class structure that kept people in the same social class as their ancestors; observed by Tocqueville

10. $400 Answer from Vocab Terms
What is EGALITARIANISM?

11. $500 Question from Vocab Terms
The 5 values that Alexis de Tocqueville claimed are crucial to American Democracy

12. $500 Answer from Vocab Terms
What are:
Populism
Egalitarianism
Laissez-Faire
Liberty
Individualism

13. $100 Question from Vocab People
The French observer who wrote a book about the strengths and weaknesses of America’s society

14. $100 Answer from Vocab People
Who is ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE?

15. $200 Question from Vocab People
This signer of the Declaration of Independence is famous for his GIANT signature

16. $200 Answer from Vocab People
Who is JOHN HANCOCK?

17. $300 Question from Vocab People
This signer of the Declaration of Independence is also known as “the Father of American Medicine”

18. $300 Answer from Vocab People
Who is BENJAMIN RUSH?

19. $400 Question from Vocab People
“No country in the world has a more lively or concerned feeling for property than the United States”
This value was described by Alexis de Tocqueville

20. $400 Answer from Vocab People
What is laissez-faire?

21. $500 Question from H2 DAILY DOUBLE
The Declaration of Independence borrowed this person’s idea that people have the right to overthrow an oppressive government.
DAILY DOUBLE

22. $500 Answer from Vocab People
Who is JOHN LOCKE?

23. $100 Question from DoI
The intent of the Declaration of Independence (What was it meant to do?)

24. $100 Answer from DoI
What is announce our independence from Britain (give Britain and the world our reasons)

25. $200 Question from DoI
According to the Declaration of Independence, government is formed to protect this

26. $200 Answer from DoI
What are our natural or UNALIENABLE RIGHTS

27. $300 Question from DoI
“To secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, derving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
This phrase influenced the U.S. Constitution by mandating that the people…

28. $300 Answer from DoI
What is “vote for representatives” or republicanism?

29. $400 Question from DoI
John Locke’s ideas of “unalienable rights” that Thomas Jefferson took, and then altered, in the Declaration

30. $400 Answer from DoI
What is “Life, liberty, and estate (or pursuit of happiness)”?

31. $500 Question from DoI
Give 3 reasons why the colonists declared independence from Britain. Were these grievances addressed in the Constitution or Bill of Rights?

32. $500 Answer from DoI No taxation without representation (yes)
Tea Act
Stamp Act
Quartering of troops (yes 3rd amendment)
Indians were used against the colonists (ummm no)
“tyrannical gov”—not elected by the people (yes)

33. $100 Question from AoC
Under the Articles of Confederation who had more power: the central government or the states?

34. $100 Answer from AoC
What are the STATES?

35. $200 Question from AoC
This rebellion convinced many Americans of the need for a stronger national government—(because the Articles was too weak to handle it)

36. $200 Answer from AoC
What was SHAYS’ REBELLION?

37. $300 Question from AoC
Critics of the Articles of Confederation would say that is gave too much power to the ______________and not enough power to the ____________government.

38. $300 Answer from AoC
What are STATES and CENTRAL (federal or national are ok too)

39. $400 Question from AoC
This was the cause of Shays’ Rebellion

40. $400 Answer from AoC
What is “high taxes by the states/Massachusetts”?

41. $500 Question from AoC EXCERPT Look at the excerpt,
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
Look at the excerpt,
Which document was this added to and why?

42. $500 Answer from AoC
What is CONSTITUTION via Bill or Rights and to protect individual rights

43. $100 Question from USC
If the main reason the Articles of Confederation didn’t work is because the central (or national) government was too weak, then the main reason we made the U.S. Constitution is to have what kind of central government?

44. $100 Answer from USC
What is a STRONGER CENTRAL GOV

45. $200 Question from USC
How each state would have representation in the Legislative Branch (or Congress) was dealt with in this compromise
Especially important to how the Southern states would count population

46. $200 Answer from USC
What is the 3/5ths compromise

47. $300 Question from USC
This created a bicameral legislature to have both big and small states ratify the Constitution

48. $300 Answer from H5
What is the Great Compromise?

49. $400 Question from USC
The Bill of Rights (supported by the Anti-federalists) was added to the _______________ primarily to do what?

50. $400 Answer from USC
What is CONSTITUTION and Protect individual liberties (rights)?

51. $500 Question from USC
Name all 3 branches of government and what each branch does

52. $500 Answer from USC What is: Legislative—make laws
Executive—enforce laws
Judicial—interpret laws

53. Final Jeopardy
Explain one weakness of the Articles of Confederation and how it was corrected in the U.S. Constitution (or Bill of Rights)

55. Final Jeopardy Answer(s)
No money  Fed. gov’t can collect taxes
Weak central gov’t  Create executive branch/states must follow fed. laws
Border disputes  Congress determines borders
Fighting States  Fed. Gov’t has supreme power
No respect  Congress negotiates treaties/ can declare war