2. Jeopardy!

3. Jeopardy
Colonial Influences
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4. Colonial Influences 100
Who wrote Common Sense?
Who is Thomas Paine?

5. What is social contract?
Colonial Influences 200
All of the Enlightenment philosophers believed in this idea which meant that we agree to give up some of our rights for the protection of others.
What is social contract?

6. What is Shay’s Rebellion?
Colonial Influences 500
This event carried out by Massachusetts farmers led the founding fathers to write the US Constitution.
What is Shay’s Rebellion?

7. What is self-government?
Colonial Influences 300
The main principle that all of the documents that influenced the colonists had in common which meant the people had the right to govern themselves.
What is self-government?

8. The 3 main concerns of the colonists against the British.
Colonial Influences 400
The 3 main concerns of the colonists against the British.
What are taxation, lack of representation, infringing on individual rights?

9. Enumerated powers are given to which level of government
Federalism 100
Enumerated powers are given to which level of government
What is federal?

10. What are both federal and state?
Federalism 200
Concurrent powers are given to which level of government
What are both federal and state?

11. What is the states? Federalism 300
Conduction of elections is a reserved power of what level of government
What is the states?

12. What is the federal government?
Federalism 400
In June 1950, during the Cold War, communist North Korea invaded South Korea. The United States had been supporting South Korea. As a result of the invasion, the U.S. sent troops as part of a United Nations mission to fight on behalf of South Korea. What level of government does this power belong to?
What is the federal government?

13. What is the supremacy clause?
Federalism 500
Found in Article VI this section/clause gives the Constitution ultimate say/power
What is the supremacy clause?

14. What is the 2nd Amendment?
Bill of Rights 100
The NRA (National Rifle Association) is a big proponent (supporter) of which amendment
What is the 2nd Amendment?

15. What are Religion, Assembly, Speech, Petition, Press?
Bill of Rights 200
The five freedoms guaranteed by the first amendment
What are Religion, Assembly, Speech, Petition, Press?

16. A trial in which someone is sued or money is disputed is called a
Bill of Rights 300
A trial in which someone is sued or money is disputed is called a
What is civil trial?

17. What is eminent domain? Bill of Rights 400
The power to take away private property for public use if the government pays a fair value for the property is known as
What is eminent domain?

18. What is the fourth amendment?
Bill of Rights 500
New Jersey v. TLO has to do with the idea of student’s personal property (in this case a purse that had an illegal substance in it) and what is done with it. Which amendment would the Supreme Court use to make their decision
What is the fourth amendment?

19. What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
The Branches 100
What are the three branches of the US Government
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?

20. Who carries out an impeachment trial?
The Branches 200
Who carries out an impeachment trial?
What is the Senate?

21. What is the Speaker of the House?
The Branches 300
The leader of the House of Representatives
What is the Speaker of the House?

22. What is Marbury v. Madison?
The Branches 400
Which case gives the Supreme Court the power of judicial review?
What is Marbury v. Madison?

23. What is both the House and the Senate?
The Branches 500
Who approves a bill before it goes to the President?
What is both the House and the Senate?

24. What is representative government or a republic?
People elect officials to rule for them
What is representative government or a republic?

25. What is a unitary government?
A system where there is only one central government
What is a unitary government?

26. Government 400
Kim Jong Un, Fidel Castro, and Adolf Hitler are leaders who have absolute power in this type of government
What is a dictatorship?

27. The central government owns and controls the economic resources
What is communism?

28. What is a confederal system?
Government 500
The European Union is an example of what type of government?
What is a confederal system?

29. Who is John Locke? FINAL JEOPARDY! Who influenced the bolded section:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Who is John Locke?