5 Written Questions

1. States that no person shall have their life, liberty or property taken away from them by the federal government without due process of law.
2. The clause in the U.S. Constitution that explains that states cannot make laws that conflict with the U.S. Constitution or with the laws made by Congress.
3. A change or addition to a document.
4. This amendment gave 18 year olds or older the right to vote in all elections.
5. A person who is not a citizen, but who lives legally in the U.S.A. Resident aliens enjoy most of the rights of citizens. They have the same right to due process of law as citizens.

5 Matching Questions

1. checks and balances
2. naturalized citizen
3. Jury
4. Liberties
5. Prejudiced

1. a The sharing and balancing of power among the three branches of government so no one branch can control the others.
2. b A group of citizens who decide the outcome of a trial.
3. c Having a negative judgement or opinion without knowledge of the facts.
4. d The freedoms of citizens, such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion; in the U.S.A., these freedoms are protected by the Bill of Rights.
5. e Someone who is born elsewhere but who passes a citizenship test on the Constitution and the history of the United States of America and becomes an American citizen.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. The practicing of managing relations between nations without the use of warfare
   1. Jury
   2. Diplomacy
   3. citizen
   4. Due process
2. The power of the courts to say that the Constitution does not allow the government to do something.
   1. Judicial review
   2. Judicial branch
   3. Federal system
   4. resident alien
3. A person that is a member of a nation.
   1. Amendment
   2. citizen
   3. Liberties
   4. Jury
4. Added to the Constitution in 1920 giving women the right to vote.
   1. Fourteenth Amendment
   2. Twenty Sixth Amendment
   3. Nineteenth Amendment
   4. Fifth Amendment
5. In the U.S. during the 1950s and 1960s, people worked together to demand that the Federal Government protect the rights of African Americans and other minorities. People worked together to change unfair laws. They gave speeches, marched in protest ad participated in boycotts.
   1. Twenty Sixth Amendment
   2. Civil Rights Movement
   3. Fifth Amendment
   4. Civil War Amendments

5 True/False Questions

1. Due process → The requirement that procedures used by the government in gathering information and making decisions to be reasonable and fair.

   True        False

2. United Nations → An organization created in 1945 to maintain peace and security for its members.

   True        False

3. Legislative branch → The branch of government that makes the laws.

   True        False

4. Separation of powers → The first ten amendments to the Constitutionn; it lists some basic rights of the people that the federal government may not interfere with and must protect.

   True        False

5. Federal system → A form of government in which power is divided between a national government and state and local governments.

   True        False