What is Voting
What is it called when people choose their leaders by casting their vote?
What is an election?
What is the person running for a leadership position in an election called?
What is a candidate?
What do we call the process of counting votes to see who wins an election?
What is vote counting?
Who is the leader of the United States?
Who is the president?
What do we call the Tuesday in November when the U.S. holds elections?
What is Election Day?
How old do you have to be to vote in the United States?
What is 18 years old?
Name one of the two main political parties in the United States.
What is the Democratic Party or the Republican Party?
True or False: The person with the most votes always wins in a U.S. presidential election.
What is False (because of the Electoral College)?
How many years does a president serve in one term?
What is four years?
True or False: All U.S. citizens had the right to vote from the very beginning of the country.
What is False?
What do you call the place where people go to cast their votes?
What is a polling place?
What do we call a group of people with similar ideas about how the government should work?
What is a political party?
What system does the U.S. use to choose the president?
What is the Electoral College?
What is one of the jobs of the president?
What is sign laws, work with other countries, or lead the military?
Who was the first U.S. president?
Who is George Washington?
True or False: Only citizens of the U.S. can vote in U.S. elections.
What is True?
True or False: A candidate can run for president without being part of a political party.
What is True?
How many electoral votes does a candidate need to win the U.S. presidency?
What is 270?
What is the building where the president works?
What is the White House?
What year did women in the U.S. win the right to vote?
What is 1920?
What do people use to mark their choices in an election?
What is a ballot?
What do candidates do during a campaign to try to win votes?
What is give speeches, run ads, hold rallies, or debate?
What are the two types of elections that happen before a leader is chosen? (Hint: the first chooses a party’s candidate, and the second chooses the leader)
What are the primary election and the general election?
True or False: A president can serve more than two terms.
What is False?
What amendment to the U.S. Constitution lowered the voting age to 18?
What is the 26th Amendment?