Constitution

Question 1

What is the supreme law of the land?

Answer 1

Constitution

Question 2

The idea of self government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words

Answer 2

we the people

Question 3

What is an amendment

Answer 3

Change to the constitution

Question 4

What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution

Answer 4

Bill of Rights

Question 5

What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?

Answer 5

Speech/Assembly/Religion

Question 6

What did the Declaration of Independence do?

Answer 6

Gave the US freedom from Britain

Question 7

What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence

Answer 7

Life Liberty Happiness

Question 8

Name one branch or part of the government

Answer 8

Legislative, Executive, Judicial

Question 9

What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful

Answer 9

Checks/Balances

Question 10

Who is in charge of the executive branch

Answer 10

President

Question 11

James Madison helped write which plan at the convention

Answer 11

Virginia Plan

Question 12

What branch of government id discussed in Article 1

Answer 12

Legislative

Question 13

Name one of the authors of the Federalist Papers

Answer 13

Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, John Jay

Question 14

True or False; was Thomas Jefferson at the Constitutional Convention

Answer 14

False

Question 15

Name of the U.S. government before the adoption of our present constitution

Answer 15

Articles of Confederation (AOC)

Question 16

Name one check that the judicial branch has on the legislative branch

Answer 16

Declare laws unconstitutional

Question 17

Which plan at the convention favored proportional representation in congress

Answer 17

Virginia plan

Question 18

True or False; John Adams was at the Constitutional Convention

Answer 18

False

Question 19

How many votes did each state get in Congress under the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 19

1

Question 20

Name one Department in Washington’s first cabinet

Answer 20

War Department

Question 21

What branch of government was discussed in Article 2

Answer 21

Judicial

Question 22

The XYZ Affair caused an undeclared war with which nation

Answer 22

France

Question 23

Who became the second president of the US

Answer 23

John Adams

Question 24

What laws were thought by some to be a violation of our 1st Amendment rights?

Answer 24

Alien and Sedition Acts

Question 25

Name one check that the president has over congress?

Answer 25

Vetoing

Question 26

What was another name for the big state plan at the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 26

Virginia Plan

Question 27

Thomas Jefferson bought the territory of Louisiana from which Country?

Answer 27

France