Civil Liberties
This amendment guarantees freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
Which constitutional amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Congress is divided into these two chambers.
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
The U.S. has this type of party system, dominated by two major political parties.
What is a two-party system?
Before the many amendments expanding the franchise, the original Constitution left voting eligibility largely up to these.
What are the states?
This clause in the First Amendment prevents the government from establishing an official religion.
What is the Establishment Clause?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
How many members are in the United States Senate?
What is 100?
What are the two major political parties in the United States?
What are the Democratic Party and the Republican Party?
What system officially selects the President of the United States?
What is the Electoral College?
Which amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures?
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This act, passed in 1964, outlawed discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and education.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
What process allows Congress to remove a President from office for high crimes and misdemeanors?
What is Impeachment?
These elections help political parties choose their nominees for the general election.
What are primary elections?
When U.S. citizens cast ballots in a presidential election, they are actually voting for these rather than directly for the president.
What are electors?
Which amendment protects citizens from self-incrimination, including the “right to remain silent”?
What is the Fifth Amendment?
What movement in the 1950s–60s sought to end racial discrimination and secure equal rights?
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
What is the main role of congressional committees?
What is to review, amend, and draft legislation?
What do we call a state where support for both major political parties is roughly equal, making it highly competitive in elections?
What is a swing state?
This term describes a voter who does not consistently vote for the same political party in every election.
What is a swing voter?
This legal test is used to determine when the government can limit speech based on whether it creates an immediate threat or harm.
What is the “clear and present danger” or the Brandenburg test?
This 1965 law targeted discriminatory voting practices such as literacy tests and dramatically increased minority voter registration.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What Senate tradition allows senators to speak for an unlimited period?
What is the filibuster?
What do we call a candidate who currently holds the office they’re running for again?
What is an incumbent?
This system in U.S. elections awards office to the candidate with the most votes, even if not a majority.
What is the “winner-take-all” or plurality system?