Voting/Elections
Candidates are divided into these organizations to represent their motives and goals.
What are political parties?
This elected office is the leader of the executive branch of the WV government.
What is the governor?
The executive, judicial, and legislative are the names of _____.
What are the 3 branches of government?
This document was drafted by the Founding Fathers and asserted the 13 colonies were no longer under British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This Constitutional amendment guarantees the right to free speech and peaceful assembly.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This type of ballot is a preview of what will be on the ballot in an upcoming election. They can be found in local newspapers or on websites like ballotpedia.org.
What is a sample ballot?
This is the amount of time a term in the WV state Senate is.
What are 4 years?
There are 9 of these in the Supreme Court.
What are Supreme Court Justices?
This group of states seceded from the Union.
What is the Confederacy?
This person encouraged nonviolent civil disobedience and wrote the “Letter From Birmingham Jail.”
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
This election happens in between the presidential elections, and is used to elect members of Congress.
What is the midterm election?
This is the lower house of the state legislature, below the Senate.
What is the WV House of Delegates?
Carol D. Miller, Riley M. Moore, Shelley Moore Capito, and James "Jim" Justice were elected to positions in _____ to represent WV in the federal government.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This 1973 Supreme Court decision protected the right of pregnant women to have an abortion.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This term refers to women’s right to vote, and was ratified by the 19th Amendment.
What is women’s suffrage?
These elections are used by political parties to select their candidate for the general election; the next one in WV is May 12th.
What is the primary election?
This department is responsible for monitoring water quality.
What is the Department of Environmental Protection?
This is a written directive signed by the President meant to direct the departments of the executive branch in implementing laws.
What is an Executive Order?
This constitutional amendment addresses citizenship rights and was created following the end of the Civil War.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This recent protest had the largest number of active protesters in a single day in US history.
What is the October 2025 No Kings Protest?
This senator is running for reelection in the US Senate this midterm election.
Who is Senator Shelley Moore Capito?
This elected office oversees election processes, and is currently held by Kris Warner.
What is the Secretary of State?
This role is the presiding officer of the US House of Representatives.
What is the speaker of the House?
This battle was the largest labor uprising in US history, and happened in Logan County, WV.
What is the Battle of Blair Mountain?
This woman used investigative journalism to expose the lynching epidemic against black men, and wrote A Red Record.
Who is Ida B. Wells?