Civics and Government, Part 2

Question 1

What are natural rights?

Answer 1

Rights people are born with, such as life, liberty, and the right to own property

Question 2

What is naturalization?

Answer 2

Process of becoming a citizen of a new place

Question 3

Define nomination.

Answer 3

Selection of candidates for offices

Question 4

What is an ordinance?

Answer 4

Local law or regulation

Question 5

What does it mean to be overturned?

Answer 5

Reversed

Question 6

What is Parliament?

Answer 6

British law-making body

Question 7

What was the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson?

Answer 7

1896 Supreme Court case that legalized segregation under ‘separate but equal’; later overturned by Brown v. Board of Education in 1952

Question 8

What are political parties?

Answer 8

Organized groups that support a set of political beliefs

Question 9

Define popular sovereignty.

Answer 9

Voting by the people (majority rules)

Question 10

What is the Preamble?

Answer 10

First part of a document, such as the Declaration of Independence or the U.S. Constitution

Question 11

Who were the Radical Republicans?

Answer 11

Congressional group during Reconstruction who strongly supported expanding rights for freed slaves in the South

Question 12

What does it mean to ratify?

Answer 12

To formally agree to

Question 13

What was the Reconstruction period?

Answer 13

Period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War

Question 14

What is a referendum?

Answer 14

A popular vote on a state law or amendment

Question 15

What is a representative democracy?

Answer 15

Political system in which citizens vote for leaders who then make laws on their behalf

Question 16

Define republic.

Answer 16

Political system in which citizens vote for leaders who then make laws on their behalf; a representative democracy

Question 17

What is a republican form of government?

Answer 17

Form of government in which citizens elect representatives to run the government

Question 18

What are reserved powers?

Answer 18

Powers that stay with the states

Question 19

What is a runoff election?

Answer 19

Election held when none of the candidates for an office wins a majority of the vote in the general election

Question 20

What are searches and seizures?

Answer 20

Investigation or taking of a person’s property by the state

Question 21

Define sectionalism.

Answer 21

Support for the needs of one’s own region

Question 22

What is segregation?

Answer 22

Legal separation of people by race

Question 23

What was the Seneca Falls Convention?

Answer 23

1848 gathering that began the women’s rights movement in the United States

Question 24

What does separation of powers mean?

Answer 24

Idea that governmental powers should be divided among branches to limit one branch from becoming too powerful

Question 25

What is a sit-in?

Answer 25

Protests in which people entered businesses and refused to leave unless they were served

Question 26

What are the Southern Colonies?

Answer 26

Colonies that reached from Virginia southward to the border with Spanish Florida

Question 27

What is a special district?

Answer 27

Unit of government that has a key purpose

Question 28

What are states' rights?

Answer 28

Belief that states, not the federal government, should decide laws about matters within their borders

Question 29

What is suffrage?

Answer 29

The right to vote

Question 30

What is the supremacy clause?

Answer 30

Constitutional section stating that the Constitution and federal laws are supreme when in conflict with those of the states

Question 31

What is a tariff?

Answer 31

Special taxes placed on goods brought into a country for sale

Question 32

What are terms in a political context?

Answer 32

Periods of time in office

Question 33

What are territories?

Answer 33

Areas controlled by another country

Question 34

What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

Answer 34

Constitutional compromise that allowed three-fifths of the total enslaved population of a state to be counted for purposes of representation in Congress

Question 35

Define tolerance.

Answer 35

Accepting the rights of others to have different opinions and live different lives

Question 36

What is the U.S. Constitution?

Answer 36

The highest authority of law in the United States; lists rules as to how the national government operates

Question 37

What is an undocumented immigrant?

Answer 37

Person who comes to the United States without following the proper legal procedures

Question 38

What does it mean to be upheld?

Answer 38

Agreed with

Question 39

What is a verdict?

Answer 39

Ruling

Question 40

What does veto mean?

Answer 40

To reject

Question 41

What does it mean to be violated?

Answer 41

To have defied or dishonored

Question 42

What are weapons of mass destruction?

Answer 42

Powerful weapons capable of injuring or killing many people at once

Question 43

What is welfare?

Answer 43

Well-being

Question 44

What is the women's rights movement?

Answer 44

Reform movement supporting increased rights and equality for women