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| The branch of government that makes the laws |
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| The branch of government that enforces or carries out the laws |
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| The branch of government that interprets the laws |
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| The two house body in Washington, D.C. that passes laws for the United States |
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| The two house body in Raleigh, N.C. that passes laws for the state of North Carolina |
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| The chief executive of the United States |
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| The chief executive of North Carolina |
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| The number of justices on the United States Supreme Court |
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| The number of justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court |
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| The number of members in the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina |
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| The number of senators from North Carolina in the U.S. Senate |
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| A fancy word for a two-house legislature |
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| The country from which the thirteen colonies won their independence |
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| The King of England at the time of the American Revolution |
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| The colonial region where cotton, tobacco, and rice were grown |
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| The colonial region where the Puritans were strong |
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| The first successful British colony in America |
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| The colony settled by the Pilgrims after they got off the Mayflower |
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| The study of why people make the decisions they do when it comes to their money |
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| The study of what it means to be an American citizen |
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| The process by which a person not born in the United States can become an American citizen |
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| The official people count taken every ten years in the United States |
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| The system that keeps the three branches of government basically equal in power |
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| The system that divides governmental powers between the federal and state levels |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| The document that created the first national government for the United States...it didn't last very long |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| The document that explained to Britain why the colonies wanted to break away and create their own nation |
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| The document which gives the United States its government today |
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| The number of amendments in the U.S. Constitution |
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| The number of amendments in the Bill of Rights |
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| The minimum age for a President of the United States |
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| The amount of a product that will be available in the market at a given price |
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| The amount of a product that people/buyers will want at a given price |
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| The price at which supply and demand intersect |
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| A lack of supply of a certain product |
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| An oversupply of a certain product |
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| Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, Speech |
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| The five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment |
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| The freedom protected by the Second Amendment |
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| Senate and House of Representatives |
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| The two houses in the U.S. Congress |
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| The War which made the United States a country |
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| The people who lead the various executive departments and help the President make important decisions |
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| The person who breaks 50-50 ties in the Senate and who becomes president in the event of a president's death |
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| The type of political party system that exists in the United States |
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| Democrats and Republicans |
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| The two major political parties in the United States |
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| All of the beliefs and ideas that a political party supports |
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| One of the beliefs that a political party supports |
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| An election in which a political party is trying to determine who their candidate for a particular office will be |
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| An election in which voters choose the winner of a particular political office |
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| A legal resident of a country, state, or city |
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| A business that sells stock to people who wish to be partial owners in the company |
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| A business owned by a single person or by a married couple |
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| A business owned by two or more individuals |
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| Technology, Capital, Entrepreneurship, Land, Labor |
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| The five factors of production |
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| The number of branches in the United States Government |
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| The level of government which is always "supreme" |
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| FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) |
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| The only president elected four times |
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| The Supreme Court case in which a school suspension for the wearing of peace armbands was overturned |
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| The Supreme Court case in which a woman's house was searched inappropriately by police as they searched for a bombing suspect |
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| The Supreme Court case in which a young girl's pocketbook was searched appropriately by school officials |
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| The Supreme Court case which legitimized the burning of the American flag as free speech |
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| The Supreme Court case which legalized the idea of "separate but equal" facilities for the races |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| The Supreme Court case which ruled that public schools in America should be integrated |
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| Little Rock Central High School |
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| A high school in Arkansas which became a show-down location for integration in 1954 |
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| The amendment which freed the slaves |
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| The amendment which gave women the right to vote |
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| A fancy term for the right to vote |
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| The official vote casters for the President of the United States |
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| The number of Electoral College votes North Carolina has |
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| The event at which a new or incumbent president (or governor) is sworn into office |
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| The month in which we choose our president |
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| Techniques used to try to sway a person to believe a certain idea |
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| Separation of Church and State |
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| The idea that the government should not try to interfere with a person's religious practices/beliefs nor should it condone or prohibit certain religious practices/beliefs |
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| A government in which power is bestowed upon a king or a queen |
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| A system in which people personally make laws for their community...as in small places where a town meeting might be used to make decisions |
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| A system in which people choose others to travel to a location to make the laws for the nation, state, or community |
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| A governmental system in which one person, usually with control over the military, oppressively rules a nation...think Hitler |
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| Refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man thus challenging Montgomery, Alabama's system of Jim Crow |
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| A governmental/economic system in which the government owns all of the factors of production and makes all major economic decisions...China uses this |
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| Capitalism or Free Market |
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| An economic system in which business decisions are made by private individuals and the factors of production are owned by private sources, not the government |
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