Amendments
Vocabulary
Supreme Court Cases
Citizenship
Branches of Government
100
Freedom of Speech
What is the 1st amendment?
100
Presidents power to kill a bill, if Congress is not in session by not signing it for more than 10 days consecutively.
What is a Pocket Veto?
100
2 kids wanted to write about pregnancy and parent divorce in the schools newspaper. They needed approval by the principal but the principal didn't allow it.
What is Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier?
100
Age to Vote
What is Eighteen?
100
Makes laws
What is Legislature?
200
Right to bear arms
What is the 2nd amendment?
200
A resolution that is passed by both houses of Congress.
What is a Joint Resolution?
200
When a black African American girl wanted to go to a white school because it was closer to her house. The black school took more than 30 minutes to get there.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
200
percent needed to pass a citizenship test
What is 60%?
200
headed by the presidents
What is executive?
300
Right to silence
What is the 5th amendment?
300
The work that a lawmaker does to help constituents with a problem.
What is Casework?
300
4 kids went to school wearing a black armband to represent the Vietnam War. The administrators told them to take it off but they refused and said no. They then got suspensions.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
300
Natural born or Naturalized
What are the types of citizens?
300
headed by the Supreme Court
What is Judicial?
400
Cruel and unusual punishment
What is the 8th amendment?
400
Power that Congress has that is not stated explicity in the Constitution.
What is Implied Powers?
400
Establishing laws through States and Federal.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
400
States needed to win presidency
What is 11 states?
400
number of supreme court justices
What is 9?
500
African American men right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
500
Power that the U.S. Congress has that is specifically listed in the Constitution.
What is Expressed Powers?
500
2 candidates running in a race to see who would be the best at being the president. When they thought all counts were in something went awry. The counts in Flordia were not counted correctly.
What is Bush v. Gore?
500
Abraham Lincoln
What is the 16th president?
500
House of Representatives and the Senate
What 2 groups make up congress?
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