answers 2024
What form does the US government have? - ANSWER>>Democracy
What was one of the main reasons the English colonists came to the New World?
- ANSWER>>-freedom
-political liberty
-religious freedom
-economic opportunity
-practice their religion
-escape persecution
What right are stated in the Declaration of Independence? - ANSWER>>-life
-liberty
-pursuit of happiness
What were the reasons the colonists separated from England? - ANSWER>>-high
taxes
-taxation without representation
-British soldiers stayed in Americans houses
-they did not have self-government
-boston massacre
-boston tea party (tea act)
-stamp act
-sugar act
-Townshend acts
-intolerable (coercive) acts
How did the French and Indian War (1763) affect the colonists? - ANSWER>>
What was the Virginia House of Burgesses? - ANSWER>>The House of Burgesses
was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North
America.
, What are the three branches of the US government? - ANSWER>>Legislative,
Executive, Judicial
What is the system of checks and balance of the US government? -
ANSWER>>provides each branch of government with individual powers to check
the other branches and prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.
What are the three levels of the US government? - ANSWER>>-federal
-state
-local
What are the powers of Congress? - ANSWER>>-writing laws
-declares war
-makes the federal budget
What are the powers of the President? - ANSWER>>-signs bills into law
-vetoes bills
-enforce laws
-commander in chief (of the military)
-chief diplomat
What are the powers of the Supreme Court? - ANSWER>>The supreme court is
the last stop in the judicial system. It's decisions are final, and they are binding on
all lower courts.
What was the "Great Compromise"? - ANSWER>>-what settled the difference
between the New Jersey and the Virginia plan, two houses of congress, senate
had two people from each state, and house of rep was based on population
-Plan at the Constitutional Convention that settled representation of big and small
states.
How are the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate chosen? -
ANSWER>>-citizens from their (congressional) district
How are the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate allocated?
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