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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT 5TH GRADE GOVT TEST
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Question 1: What branch is responsible for enforcing laws?
Answer:
executive branch Question 2: Why did many delegates insist on adding ten amendments to the Constitution soon after it was ratified?
Answer:
to protect the basic rights of the people
Question 3: Which branch decides whether laws follow the Constitution?
Answer:
judicial Question 4: Which problem in the United States was highlighted by the events of the Shays's Rebellion?
Answer:
the weakness of the national government
Question 5: What is the 10th amendment?
Answer:
Rights not given to the federal government are given to the states
Question 6: Which branch makes all the national laws?
Answer:
legislative
Question 7: What right does the 2nd amendment give?
Answer:
right to bear arms
Question 8: What is the 3rd amendment?
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no quartering of troops Question 9: The New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan both addressed the states' conflict over:
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legislative representation Question 10: Which branch has the power to approve the appointments of Supreme Court justices?
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legislative Question 11: Why did the writers of the Constitution add checks and balances to the federal government?
Answer:
to prevent any one branch from controlling the government Question 12: The ideal that one purpose of the United States government was "to establish justice" is stated in which historical document?
Answer:
Preamble to the Constitution
Question 13: What is the 5th amendment?
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right to life, liberty, and property and right to remain silent
Question 14: What are the five freedoms of the 1st amendment
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freedom to assemble, freedom to petition the government, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion Question 15: What name is given to the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
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Bill of Rights Question 16: What question did the delegates of the Constitutional Convention try to resolve?
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how should representation in Congress be divided among the states Question 17: What role did Gouverneur Morris have at the Constitutional Convention?
Answer:
he wrote the Preamble to the Constitution
Question 18: What is the 6th amendment?
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right to a speedy trial Question 19: How can the judicial branch limit the powers of the legislative branch?
Answer:
ruling laws unconstitutional
Question 20: Which branch has the power to veto bills?
Answer:
executive
Question 21: What is the 9th amendment?
Answer:
there are other rights besides the bill of rights
Question 22: What the 4th amendment?
Answer:
right to privacy, no searches without a warrant
Question 23: Which branch is the President part of?
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executive Question 24: Who has to share power to govern under the federal system of government?
Answer:
the national and the state governments
Question 25: What is the 8th amendment?
Answer:
right to reasonable punishment, not cruel and unusual
Question 26: What is the 7th amendment?
Answer:
right to trial with a jury