Civics Midterm Review- CH 1-16
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| show | Ancient Greece & Rome
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| is Latin for "out of many one" found on American coins | show 🗑
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| show | Meliting Pot
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| Which theory believes U.S. society benefits most when people keep their cultural identities-multiculturalism | show 🗑
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| a legal process in which foreigners become citizens | show 🗑
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| What can legal aliens NOT do? | show 🗑
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| Which government position can never be held by an immigrant? | show 🗑
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| show | Border Patrol
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| show | Theocracy
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| show | Representative Democracy
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| things we are required to do by law: serve on juries, attend school, register for the draft, pay taxes, obey laws | show 🗑
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| show | Southern
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| Which region depneded on shipbuilding? | show 🗑
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| show | Middle Passage
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| show | Georgia
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| show | Magna Carta
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| This was the first permanent English settlement founded in 1607. It created the House of Burgesses the first representative legislature in the colonies. | show 🗑
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| This colony was formed by Lord Baltimore for the Catholics. | show 🗑
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| show | John Locke
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| show | Proclamation of 1763
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| show | French and Indian War
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| Slogan created by James Otis colonists believed British taxes were unfair because they did not have any representatives in Parliament. It led to a boycott that eventually helped lead to the act being repealed. | show 🗑
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| show | Intolerable/Coercive Acts
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| show | Thomas Paine
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| What were the first battles of the Revolutionary War, known as the “shot heard round the world”? | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| show | Roanoke
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| show | Virginia Dare
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| show | Shay's Rebellion
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| Why did delegates to the Constitutional Convention originally meet? | show 🗑
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| show | James Madison
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| show | bill of rights
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| show | approval of 3/4 of state legislatures
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| show | Expressed Powers
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| powers shared between the state and national/federal government like taxation | show 🗑
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| show | Reserved Powers
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| What event began the Civil Rights Movement? | show 🗑
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| RAPPS: Freedom of Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition and Speech | show 🗑
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| show | 4th Amendment
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| due process of the law, protection against self-incrimination, prevents double jeopardy | show 🗑
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| show | 6th Amendment
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| show | 10th Amendment
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| abolishes slavery | show 🗑
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| show | 15th Amendment
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| show | 19th Amendment
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| lowers the voting age to 18 (due to Vietnam War, draft | show 🗑
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| show | Tinker v. DesMoines
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| suspects must be read their rights when arrested- right to remain silent etc. | show 🗑
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| show | Gideon v. Wainwright
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| show | Mapp v. Ohio
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| show | Marbury v. Madison
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| show | Brown v. Board
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| show | Gerrymander
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| population count taken every ten years | show 🗑
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| show | Franking Privilege
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| government project or grant that primarily benefits a particular home district or state | show 🗑
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| show | Speaker
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| Who is the official leader of the Senate? He only votes to break a tie. | show 🗑
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| A president can kill legislation by doing nothing for 10 days while Congress is not in session, in a move known as a .... | show 🗑
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| show | Senate
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| Which house chooses the president if no candidate receives a majority of the electors? | show 🗑
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| an official representative of a country's government | show 🗑
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| an agreement among a froup of nations that prohibits them from trading with a target nation | show 🗑
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| show | Electoral College
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| What are the three requirements needed to be president of the U.S.? | show 🗑
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| Who has the power to declare war? | show 🗑
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| show | Franklin Roosevelt
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| show | Chief Executive
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| show | Dept. of Homeland Security
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| show | District, Appeals, and Supreme
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| In which types of court do federal trials and lawsuits usually begin? | show 🗑
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| show | President/Life Terms
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| show | General Assembly
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| What is the main job of the state legislature? | show 🗑
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| show | Education
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| show | Governor
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| Who does the governor control in his commander-in-chief role? | show 🗑
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| Who chooses N.C. judges and justices? | show 🗑
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| Serious crimes and civil cases involving more than $10,000 are heard in which N.C. court? | show 🗑
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| show | NC Supreme Court
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| a series of statements expressing the party’s principles, beliefs and positions | show 🗑
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| show | Electoral College
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| show | primary
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| Which leader’s Farewell Address warned Americans about the harmful effects of political parties, believing they would cause divisions in government? | show 🗑
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| The U.S. has a ______________ system of government. | show 🗑
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| Who was the only third party candidate to finish second in a presidential election? | show 🗑
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| How do we determine the number of electors for each state? | show 🗑
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| What were the nation's first two poltical parites? | show 🗑
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| What was the first known system of written law? | show 🗑
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| Which French leader updated the Code of Justinian in 1804? | show 🗑
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| serious crimes like murder, rape, or kidnapping | show 🗑
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| show | Misdemeanors
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| about 95% of criminal trials in the US are for violations of ___________________ laws. | show 🗑
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| show | Double Jeopardy
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| show | Plaintiff
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| show | Defendant
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| show | Indictment
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| early release from prison | show 🗑
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| show | Injunction
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| Juveniles receive many of the same rights as adults, EXCEPT | show 🗑
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