This person is the leader of the executive branch of the government and commands the army, navy, and air force, and meets with leaders of other countires. He or she works in the oval office.
Who is the President?
100
Makes the laws and is called the U.S. Congress.
What is the Legislative Branch?
100
Contains the courts. The courts decide how to punish people who don't obey the laws. The courts also settle arguments that people cannot settle themselves.
What is the Judicial Branch?
100
The capital of the United States. It is the city where Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court are located. Many of the people who work for the U.S. Government work in buildings in or near this city.
What is Washington, D.C.?
100
A system of government where people elect other people to make laws and lead the country.
What is a Democracy?
200
This building is in Washington, D.C. This is the building in which the president and the president's family live.
What is the White House?
200
One of the two groups that make up Congress. The members of this house are each elected for two year terms.
What is the U.S. House of Representatives?
200
The first level of courts in the court system in the United States. People who disagree with each other may go to court so that the court can decide who is right and who is wrong.
What is the U.S. District Court?
200
This document is made up of the rules that create the U.S. Government. It tells the governemtn how it is supposed to operate.
What is the U.S. Constitiution?
200
How the people of the United States choose their leaders. The people who are 18 or older vote for members of Congress and for president.
What is an election?
300
This is another name for the President of the United States.
Who is the Chief Executive?
300
One of the two groups that make up Congress. The members of this group are elected to six year terms.
What is the U.S. Senate?
300
The second level of the court system in the United States. When people do not like the decision of a judge in the district court, they sometimes go to this second court of U.S. judges.
What is the U.S. Court of Appeals?
300
The building in Washington, D.C. where the Congress meets and does most of its work.
What is the U.S. Capitol?
300
Someone who lives in a country or town. That person has the right to be protected by the government of that country or town.
Who is a citizen?
400
This is the process in which the President can turn down a bill approved by Congress.
What is a veto?
400
The rules that the U.S. Congress makes and the president agrees to. They tell the government and the people what they can or cannot do.
What are laws?
400
Decides whether other courts made the right decision. It is located in Washington, D.C.
What is the Supreme Court of the United States?
400
The money that people pay to the goverment. This money is used to buy things for the country and pay people to do jobs for the country.
What are taxes?
500
This president was the only president to ever serve for more than two terms
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
500
This is the group of people who make the laws of the United States. It consists of two groups which are called the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is Congress?
500
These people are the people who are in charge of the courts.
Who are judges?
500
Made up of the army, navy, and air force, it is always ready to protect the United States. The Department of Defense is in charge of this group. Its offices are in a building called the Pentagon.