Voting
In this system, a candidate can win the presidency without a majority of the popular vote.
What is the Electoral College?
Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition make up these things.
What are the rights in the 1st Amendment?
The highest law in the United States is often called this.
What is the Constitution?
This person presides over the U.S. Senate and takes over the role of president of the United States if the president is unable to perform their duties.
Who is the vice president of the United States?
The winner of the 2020 US presidential election
Who is Joseph R Biden?
This type of ballot is used when a voter’s eligibility is in question and requires confirmation.
What is a provisional ballot?
This was the first President to live in the White House.
Who is John Adams?
This legally mandated National Survey takes place every 10 years and is distributed to U.S. households.
What is the U.S. Census?
This current FBI Director stated that the 2020 Presidential election was the most secure in our nation’s history.
Who is Christopher Wray?
If this candidate wins the 2024 presidential election, he will be the oldest person ever elected president.
Who is Donald J Trump?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in the U.S.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This 1787 agreement stated that three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation, giving a disproportionate representation of slave states in the House of Representatives.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This system of government stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful
What are checks and balances or separation of powers?
This President is known for saying, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Each State’s electoral votes are counted in a joint session of Congress on this day in the year following the meeting of the electors.
What is January 6th?
This amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 in the U.S.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This person is given credit for warning residents of Boston of an impending attack in the 1700’s.
Who is Paul Revere?
This principle of American Democracy states that Leaders must obey the law
What is the rule of law?
The first and only US president tried and convicted of crimes.
Who is Donald J Trump?
This state's recent voting system experiment used ranked-choice voting in statewide elections.
What is Maine?
This 1965 act outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for widespread voter suppression in the South.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This influential paper series, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, defended the new U.S. Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This branch of government is responsible for interpreting laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Crispus Attucks
Who was the first casualty of the American Revolution?
Immigrants of this island nation have recently received media attention due to their presence in the state of Ohio.
What is Haiti?