With your host Mr. Bass!!

1. With your host Mr. Bass!!

2. Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

3. Vocabulary Birth of a Government Congress People You must be... Amendments 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

4. A government in which citizens rule themselves through elected representatives.

5. What is a Republic?

6. The meaning of Habeas Corpus.

7. What is no person can be held in prison without being charged with a specific crime?

8. To reject or deny. The President can do it to a bill.

9. What is veto?

10. A document stating the rules under which a government will operate.

11. What is a Constitution?

12. A proposition for new legislation. Also a character on School House of Rock.

13. What is a Bill.

14. The number of delegates from each state in the House of Representatives was based on “this,” while representation in the Senate was “this.”

15. What is population and equal?

16. According to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, “this” was banned in the newly formed northern states.

17. What is slavery?

18. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided the Northwest Territory into townships, each of which had “this” many sections.

19. What is 36?

20. With regard to passing new legislation, identify and explain one example of how the legislative branch can exercise its power to “check” the executive branch.

21. What is a Congressional Override? Congress can override a presidential veto with a 2/3 vote of both houses.

22. Article 4 of the Constitution addresses the rights of “these.”

23. What are states?

24. Congress has the power to declare “this.”

25. What is war?

26. Congress cannot suspend “this.”

27. What is habeas corpus?

28. “This” part of Congress can impeach a President, and “this person” will preside over the trial.

29. What is the House of Representatives and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

30. Congress has the power to make all laws that are and proper.

31. What is necessary?

32. The titles for the leaders of the House of Representatives and Senate (When the Vice President is absent).

33. Who are the Speaker of the House and President Pro Tempore.

34. “This” man set a precedent that Presidents would only serve two terms.

35. Who is George Washington?

36. Led a rebellion of Massachusetts farmers that revealed weakness in the Articles of Confederation.

37. Who is Daniel Shays?

38. Known as the Father of the Constitution.

39. Who is James Madison?

40. “This” man did not abstain courteously from his duty of writing the Preamble to the Constitution.

41. Who is Gouverneur Morris?

42. Identify which two were Federalists which two were Anti-Federalists. Alexander Hamilton Patrick Henry John Jay George Mason

43. Who are John Jay and Alexander Hamilton as Federalists and George Mason/Patrick Henry as Anti-Federalists?

44. You must be at least 30 years old to serve in “this.”

45. What is the Senate?

46. You must be a citizen for at least 7 years to serve in “this.”

47. What is the House of Representatives?

48. You must be a natural born citizen of the United States to run for “this” political office.

49. What is the President of the United States?

50. If your term began in the year 2000 and you first had to run for re-election in 2006, you must be a member of “this.”