Topic 1
What is a prolonged speech or debate used to delay or block legislative action?
What is a filibuster?
What term refers to financial aid provided by the government to support businesses or individuals?
What is a subsidy?
What are the funds set aside by the government for a specific purpose?
What are appropriations?
What branch of government makes laws, consisting of the Senate and House of Representatives?
What is the Legislative Branch?
What term refers to occurrences between or involving different states?
What is interstate?
What term describes statistical data about populations, such as age, race, gender, and income?
What are demographics?
What word relates to cities or densely populated areas?
What is urban?
What term means to formally approve or confirm a law, treaty, or amendment?
What is ratify?
What branch interprets laws and determines their constitutionality?
What is the Judicial Branch?
What term describes occurrences within a single state?
What is intrastate?
What is the body that formally elects the President of the United States, based on votes from each state?
What is the Electoral College?
What term is used for the power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress?
What is a veto?
What is the upper chamber of the U.S. Congress, with two representatives from each state?
What is the Senate?
What is the right to vote in political elections called?
What is suffrage?
What is the state of being confined in jail or prison called?
What is incarceration?
What happens when the federal government stops operating normally due to the failure to pass funding legislation?
What is a government shutdown?
What do you call a change or addition made to the Constitution or a law?
What is an amendment?
What is the lower chamber of the U.S. Congress, with representation based on each state’s population?
What is the House of Representatives?
What are taxes imposed on imported goods known as?
What are tariffs?
What kind of legislative body has two chambers or houses, such as the Senate and House of Representatives?
What is bicameral?
What legal principle requires that a person under arrest be brought before a judge or court to determine if their detention is lawful?
What is habeas corpus?
What is the process by which Congress passes a bill despite the President’s veto, usually requiring a two-thirds majority?
What is an override?
What branch of government is responsible for enforcing laws, led by the President?
What is the Executive Branch?
What term describes powers shared by both the federal and state governments?
What are concurrent powers?
What is the process of charging a government official with misconduct, potentially leading to removal from office?
What is impeachment?