Basics of Civics
This is the amendment secured by the efforts of the suffragists in the early 20th century.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This is the number of votes needed for a bill to pass the Senate.
What is 51? (Or, what is 50 + the Vice President?)
This is the number of electoral votes needed to win a Presidential election.
What is 270?
This is the amendment which protects your right against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment?
Mr. Reingold's favorite baseball team most recently won the World Series in this year.
What is 2016?
This political party tends to espouse more liberal ideas and supports more government regulation over the economy.
What is the Democratic party?
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are elected for a term lasting this many years.
What is 6 years?
This is the name for the annual speech that the President delivers in front of a joint session of Congress.
What is the State of the Union Address?
If you disagree with the ruling of a federal district court, you may be able to appeal to this court.
What is a federal appeals court?
As a junior in high school, Mr. Reingold "starred" in this musical, which takes place in France.
What is Les Miserables?
This is the online strategy that informed citizens employ to verify things they read or hear.
What is lateral reading?
This is the process by which legislative maps are drawn to benefit one party.
What is gerrymandering?
When the President makes wartime strategic decisions, he is fulfilling this Presidential role.
What is commander in chief?
This is the clause of the First Amendment which prohibits schools from leading students in prayer.
What is the Establishment Clause?
Mr. Reingold spent a college semester studying abroad in this city.
What is Jerusalem?
This term refers to the process by which people develop their political ideology.
What is political socialization?
This is one of the powers expressly granted to Congress in the U.S. Constitution.
What is one of these?
Tax, borrow, regulate commerce, decide spending, declare war, impeach, others...
This is the name of the President who sent the Army to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce school desegregation.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This is the case which limited First Amendment speech rights if the speech in question could lead to a "clear and present danger."
(You may cite the name of the case or describe the case.)
What is Schenck v. United States?
Or, what is the case about encouraging people to evade the draft during World War I?
Mr. Reingold drives this brand of car.
What is a Subaru?
Daniel Biss and Juliana Stratton won the primary elections for these two positions. (Must list both.)
What are the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate?
This refers to the group where differences between legislation in the House and the Senate is reconciled to create one single version of a bill.
What is a conference committee?
If you feel you are a victim of employment discrimination, you could file a complaint with this department of the federal bureaucracy.
What is the Department of Labor?
This is an example of an executive check on the judicial branch.
What is pardon power? Or: what is the President's power to appoint judges and justices?
Mr. Reingold eats one of these almost every morning.
What is a banana?