Jeopardy Vocabulary Branches Amendments Goals Principles Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from H1 This vocabulary word means fairness.

$100 Answer from H1 What is justice?

$200 Question from H1 This term means peace at home.

$200 Answer from H1 What is domestic tranquility?

$300 Question from H1 This phrase means rule by the people.

$300 Answer from H1 What is popular sovereignty?

$400 Question from H1 The ability to decide whether laws are constitutional is called this.

$400 Answer from H1 What is judicial review?

$500 Question from H1 This word means to bring formal charges against a federal official.

$500 Answer from H1 What is impeach?

$100 Question from H2 This branch of government passes laws.

$100 Answer from H2 What is the legislative branch?

$200 Question from H2 The main role of this branch of government is to carry out laws.

$200 Answer from H2 What is the executive branch?

$300 Question from H2 This branch decides whether laws passed by the legislative branch are in accordance with the Constitution.

$300 Answer from H2 What is the judicial branch?

$400 Question from H2 This branch has 435 members and consists of these two houses.

$400 Answer from H2 What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?

$500 Question from H2 Members of this branch are appointed by the President at the federal level.

$500 Answer from H2 What is the judicial branch?

$100 Question from H3 These ten amendments were added to the Constitution to ensure that people’s basic rights would not be taken away.

$100 Answer from H3 What is the Bill of Rights?

$200 Question from H3 This amendment protects your right to worship and speak freely and to hold peaceful meetings.

$200 Answer from H3 What is the first amendment?

$300 Question from H3 This amendment protects you from “unreasonable” search and seizure.

$300 Answer from H3 What is the fourth amendment?

$400 Question from H3 These amendments were the so-called Civil War amendments.

$400 Answer from H3 What are the 13 th, 14 th, and 15 th amendments?

$500 Question from H3 This is one of two ways in which amendments are ratified.

$500 Answer from H3 What is approval by three- fourths of the states legislatures or approval by three-fourths of the states meeting in special conventions?

$100 Question from H4 This introduction to the U.S. Constitution contains the six goals of the Constitution.

$100 Answer from H4 What is the Preamble?

$200 Question from H4 This goal was written to get the states to work together as part of a single, united nation.

$200 Answer from H4 What is “form a more, perfect union?”

$300 Question from H4 This goal gives Congress the power to “raise and support Armies” and to “provide and maintain a Navy.”

$300 Answer from H4 What is “provide for the common defense?”

$400 Question from H4 This goal gives the national government the ways to provide for the well-being of the people by doing such things as collecting taxes and supporting education.

$400 Answer from H4 What is “promote the general welfare?”

$400 Question from H4 This goal provides citizens freedoms such as the right to vote and equal opportunities in life.

$500 Answer from H4 What is “secure the blessings of liberty?”

$100 Question from H5 This principle means that people rule and hold the final authority in government.

$100 Answer from H5 What is popular sovereignty?

$200 Question from H5 According to this principle, the government has only the powers that the people grant it.

$200 Answer from H5 What is limited government?

$300 Question from H5 This principle divides power between the federal government and the state governments.

$300 Answer from H5 What is federalism?

$400 Question from H5 This principle of the Constitution divides the national government into three branches-the legislative, executive, and the judicial.

$400 Answer from H5 What is the principle of separation of powers?

$500 Question from H5 This principle prevents one branch of government from gaining too much power by controlling the power of the other two branches.

$500 Answer from H5 What is the principle of checks and balances?

Final Jeopardy These are at least two responsibilities of citizens of our country.

Final Jeopardy Answer What are: Know your rights, Become involved, Keep informed about important issues, or Serve on juries?