POTUS
The role of the POTUS in the US armed forces
What is the Commander in Chief?
Someone is always trying to steal this from you
What is your freedom?
Statement behind Texas's Bloody Arm flag
What is "I'd rather cut off my arm than not be free."
Month when federal elections are held
What is November?
The leader of the Senate
Who is the Vice President?
Annual speech given by the POTUS
What is the State of the Union Address?
The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
The six flags over Texas
What are Spain, France, Mexico, Texas, United States, Confederacy?
Way in which people were kept from voting
What are poll taxes and literacy tests?
The number of US Congressmen
What is 435?
Becomes POTUS if the President and Vice President are both unable
Who is the Speaker of the House?
The 3 branches of government in the United States
What is Excecutive, Judicial and Legislative?
The state which can fly its flag at the same height as the US flag
What is Texas?
moving the boundaries of a legislator's area to accommodate for population changes
What is redistricting?
Title of a person who tries to influence a Congressman on bills
What is a lobbyist?
The source of funding for government employees and elected officials
What are taxes?
The system that keeps any one branch of government from becoming too powerful
What are checks and balances?
The war being fought when the US flag was first created
What is the War of 1812?
Term for cheating in elections
What is election fraud?
Title of the person who heads up a Congressional office
What is Chief of Staff?
Under normal circumstances, this is the last step in passing a bill into a law
What is the President's signature?
The term used to describe America's unique government, the first in the history of mankind to be founded on the principle that all human beings are created as free people, which enables people to achieve the American Dream
American Exceptionalism
Author of the Star Spangled Banner
Who is Francis Scott Key?
Name given to those who fought for women to have the right to vote
What are suffragettes?
Chamber that must originate any bill that raises taxes
What is the House of Representatives?