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The country that the U.S. is currently at "war" with in the Middle East.
What is Iran?
Bonus: What is the main reason President Trump has given for starting this conflict?
Double Bonus: What is the main reason this war is "unpopular" among the American people?
The month and year when the next Federal Midterm election will take place.
What is November 2026?
The 2 chambers of our National Legislature.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
Bonus: What is the name of our National Legislature?
An idea or law that is supported by 2 or more political parties or ideologies.
What is Bi-Partisan?
The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee.
What is asylum?
What DEI stands for.
What is Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?
he 5 freedoms guaranteed by the 1st amendment.
100 points for each freedom named up to 5. If you get one wrong, you lose 100 points.
What are Speech, Press, Religion, Assembly and Petition?
The main tax collected by the U.S. Federal Government.
What is Income Tax?
Bonus: What does is mean that this is a "progressive" tax?
The main conservative U.S. Political Party.
What is the Republican party?
Bonus: What is the symbol for the Republican Party?
The country of ___________ is currently invading the Eastern European country of ___________.
What are Russia and Ukraine?
Bonus: 200 points each: Name the leaders of these 2 countries?
The Trump initiative to find and eliminate wasteful government spending and reduce the size of the U.S. Federal workforce?
What is DOGE?
Bonus: What successful businessman was the first leader of this initiative?
AND: What does DOGE stand for?
The 3 branches of our Federal Government.
What are the Executive, Legislative and the Judicial Branches?
The political ideology that is much more of the view that the government is to provide for those who cannot provide for themselves.
What is a liberal?
process by which individuals learn and frequently internalize a political lens framing their perceptions of how power is arranged and how the world around them is organized.
Learning how to behave politically.
What is Political Socialization?
the notion of a political system in which economic goods or political power are vested in individual people based on ability and talent, rather than wealth, social class, or race.
Advancement in such a system is based on performance, as measured through examination or demonstrated achievement.
What is Meritocracy?
The year and month of the next Presidential Election.
What is November of 2028?
The most common type of flat tax in the U.S.A.
What is a sales tax?
Bonus: What level of government doesn't and has never collected a general sales tax?
The main liberal U.S. political party.
What is the Democrat Party?
Bonus: What is the symbol for the Democrat party?
What the phrase "The worst first", being used by President Trump is referring to.
What is the deportation of "Criminal" illegal aliens?
The term that means that if you are born in the United States, you are automatically a U.S. Citizen.
What is "Birthright citizenship"?
Bonus: What did President Trump try to change about Birthright Citizenship?
Give the word
and then the correct order
The division of powers between different levels of government and what those levels are top to bottom.
What is federalism? The Constitution, Federal, state, county, and local.
Bonus: Which 2 of these levels have to most disagreements?
On the simple political spectrum, the political ideology that worked for decades to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision and what issue Roe v. Wade is about.
What is conservatives and abortion?
To become a citizen of a country in which you were not born?
What is naturalization?
Bonus: What is the Obama program that potentially gives children brought to the U.S. illegally a pathway to being legal and eventually citizenship?
2 answers
The Executive Agencies tasked with protecting the U.S. border and deportations.
What are ICE and Border Patrol?
Bonus: What does ICE stand for?
Who runs Federal Elections?
What are the States?
Bonus: What law about voting (as we discussed in class) has been proposed by Republicans and opposed by Democrats?
This annual tax, typically collected by counties and paid by owners of real estate and land, helps fund local public schools and services.
What is a property tax?
This Political party advocates for universal healthcare, "free" college, The Green New Deal, affordable housing through rent control and government subsidies, government run grocery stores, and reallocating wealth among all Americans by significantly increasing taxes on wealthy Americans.
What is the Democratic Socialists of America Party?
Bonus: What major U.S. city currently has a DSA mayor?
Radical proposed laws that call for action to address climate change along with achieving other social aims like job creation, economic growth and reducing economic inequality.
What is the Green New Deal?
On the diamond political spectrum, name the 2 political ideologies (NOT moderate) that would most likely NOT support expanding our current Social Security system.
2 answers
What is a Conservative AND Libertarian?
The Amendment that gives power to the States on things NOT specifically mentioned in the Constitution.
What is the 10th Amendment?
Bonus: Name at least three 10th Amendment issues that we have discussed in class?
The ideology on the diamond shaped spectrum that is likely most in favor of the Trump National Guard Deployments. (pick 1 of the 4)
What is Authoritarian or Statist?
a government characterized by specialization of functions, adherence to fixed rules, and a hierarchy of authority all with the intent of running a government or agency.
What is bureaucracy?
The purpose of the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, is to Protect the _______________ from the ___________________!
What is the "Protect the People from the Government"?
Any state that could reasonably be won by either the Democratic or Republican candidate in a statewide election, most often referring to presidential elections,.
What is a Swing State? (Battleground)
Bonus: What colors are used to describe the three kinds of states, Republican, Democrat and Swing?
This type of indirect tax is levied on specific goods and activities like gasoline, tobacco, and airline tickets, often built directly into the item's price.
Often referred to as a "luxury" tax.
What is an Excise Tax?
One of the fastest growing political parties, its members advocate for a very small government and emphasize individual personal responsibility. "Live and Let Live"
What is the Libertarian Party?
What an "Existential Threat" means.
What is something that could cause death or extermination of all people or a group of people?
an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) originally meaning alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination.
Beginning in the 2010s, it came to be used as slang for a broader awareness of social inequalities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBT rights.
What is "Woke"?
The most powerful of the 3 branches of our Federal Government.
TRICK QUESTION!!
NONE ARE MORE POWERFUL -
CHECKS AND BALANCES:)
The practice or policy of favoring individuals belonging to groups known to have been discriminated against previously.
What is Affirmative Action?
Government funded Healthcare for Americans aged 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
Bonus: The government funded healthcare for Americans who financially qualify (lower income)?
Government retirement system.
What is Social Security?
Bonus: Under which President was Social Security started?
The definition of the 9th Amendment?
What is the unenumerated rights reserved to the people?
Bonus: Who was in favor of the Bill of Rights, Federalists?
or Anti- federalists?
A tax on money made from investments.
What is the Capital Gains Tax?
Bonus: How do Capital Gains Taxes compare to income taxes? (more or less?)
The names and political affiliations of the last 4 Presidents.
Who are:
Donald Trump - (R)
Joe Biden (D)
Donald Trump (R)
Barrack Obama (D)
George W. Bush (R)
2 answers, worth DOUBLE
The Supreme Court Case that overturned Roe v. Wade and what it did.
What is Dobbs v. Jackson and sent the issue of abortion back to the States?
The simple way, according to the Constitution, for a bill to become a law.
3 steps - in the right order:)
What is a bill must get a majority vote in the House of Representatives, a majority vote in the Senate, then it must be signed by the President of the U.S.?
The body or group that holds ULTIMATE power in the United States of America.
What is the people?
The place on the simple political spectrum where most Americans are and why.
What is Most people are somewhere in the middle, moderate, of the political spectrum because the middle is the sum of the overall political beliefs of Americans at any given time?
Established in 1965, this joint federal and state program provides health coverage to millions of low-income Americans, including eligible adults, children, pregnant women, elderly adults, and people with disabilities.
What is Medicaid?
Bonus: What is Arizona's Medicaid system called?
The political phrase used to describe the desire to get rid of the permanent bureaucracy or deep state in Washington D.C.
What is "Drain the Swamp"?
onaThe number of Supreme Court Justices Donald Trump was able to appoint during his first 4 years as President.
What is 3?
Bonus: 500 points for each of these Justices you can name.
The reason why Donald Trump broke political tradition and did NOT release his tax returns during the 2016 Presidential Election campaign.
What is they would show that he doesn't pay as much taxes as people think he should as a billionaire?
Bonus: What do rich people do to "lessen" their tax burden?
To release a person's name, address and other sensitive information as a way to punish or persuade someone politically.
What is doxxed?