Unit 1
The ability to make people behave in the way you want them to.
What is Power?
The number of colonies that made up the United States in 1776.
What is 13?
The house of Congress that has 100 members, 2 from each state.
What is the Senate?
The age that a person must be to vote in the United States.
What is 18?
This amendment protects the freedom of speech, religion, the press, assembly, and the right to petition the government.
What is the 1st Amendment?
The first historical direct democracy.
What is Athens?
The first governing document of the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The highest court in the country and the only court that was set up by the Constitution.
What is the Supreme Court?
The process by which individuals acquire their political attitudes and opinions.
What is Political Socialization?
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This theory stated that God granted the King the right to rule by making him the King.
What is the Divine Right of Kings?
The idea that there are powers that belong to the federal government and powers that belong to the state government and there are also powers that are shared between them.
What is Federalism?
The role of the president that holds executive power and serves as “the boss” for Executive Branch government workers.
What is the Chief Executive?
When someone seeks to influence (a politician or public official) on an issue.
What is Lobbying?
This amendment changed the process for selecting Senators from being an appointed position to an elected one.
What is the 17th Amendment?
A movement of secular (non-religious) thinking that overtook Europe and influenced the development of American ideals.
What is The Enlightenment?
A document that was a philosophical explanation of why the colonists had the right to end their colonial status with Britain and become a separate nation (complaints against the king)
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The number of electoral college votes that a presidential candidate must receive to win the presidency.
What is 270?
Voting Day in the United States happens on this day.
What is the Tuesday after the first Monday in November?
This amendment restructured how voting for president and vice president worked, having the two run together rather than giving the runner-up presidential candidate the vice-presidency.
What is the 12th Amendment?
The first document that limited the power of the King.
What is the Magna Carta?
The plan that set up a bicameral legislature with a Senate and a House of Representatives. It also set up 3 branches of government and that the national government can veto state laws, but there are specific state powers.
What is the Great Compromise?
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
A veto taking place when congress adjourns within 10 days of submitting a bill to the president.
What is a Pocket Veto?
Drawing electoral district lines to favor the party in power & to limit the voting strength of the opposing party
What is Gerrymandering?
This amendment outlawed the use of poll taxes.
What is the 24th Amendment?