Return to Unit List Grade 2 Lesson Review Unit 5: Our Government Lesson 1: Our Country's Government   Type your name:   In our country, we follow laws from our community, our state, and our leadermayorPresidentcountrygovernorSelect your answer. Each of these places has a governormayorleaderPresidentvoteSelect your answer who makes sure we follow the laws. In a community, the governorleadercountryPresidentmayorSelect your answer is the leader. In a state, the PresidentleadergovernormayorvoteSelect your answer is the leader. Our country is led by the mayorgovernorPresidentelectionvoteSelect your answer We elected leaderappointedelectionvotePresidentSelect your answer for our government leaders, like the President. The special time when we vote for our leaders is called an electionPresidentvoteappointedelected leaderSelect your answer. Some government leaders are not elected. Instead, they are voteappointedPresidentelected leaderelectionSelect your answer or picked for their job. Usually these people are appointed by an appointedjobselectionelected leadercity councilSelect your answer. Governments are made up of many people with different votejobsPresidentcity councilelected leaderSelect your answer. A group of people called the city councilcourtmayorJudgeslawSelect your answer makes laws for a city. The mayorJudgesjobscity councilcourtSelect your answer makes sure that people follow the city’s laws. courtlawJudgesmayorcity councilSelect your answer makes sure that laws are fair. Judges work in a courtlawyerJudgeslawmayorSelect your answer. People go to a court to get help when they cannot agree about the lawyerlawschoolcourtAfrican AmericansSelect your answer. When Thurgood Marshall was a boy, some laws were not fair to African AmericanslawchildrenschoollawyerSelect your answer He became a schoolAfrican AmericanslawyerlawcourtSelect your answer to fight unfair laws. Some states had laws that said black children could not go to African AmericanslawyerlawcourtschoolSelect your answer with white children. Thurgood Marshall helped to change the law so that all courtlawlawyerschoolchildrenSelect your answer could go to school together. Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to serve on the lawyerschoolAfrican AmericanschildrenSupreme CourtSelect your answer. There he helped to change unfair childrenlawslawyerSupreme CourtschoolSelect your answer for all people.