Making Money
How We Govern
Know Your Rights
Influencing the Politicians
The Branches
100

Economies are typically run based on these two factors

What are supply and demand?

100

The United States, though a Representative Democracy, also has this key feature of government where power is divided between different levels

What is federalism?

100

Speech, Press, Petition, Redress, and this last right are all protected under the First Amendment

What is religion?

100

The NRA, CitizenLink, and the American Librarian Association are all types of these

What are Special Interest Groups?

100

The founders created three separate branches because of this

What is wanting to avoid a tyrannical government?

200

Where the government controls all of the means of production, prices, and supply

What is a command economy?

200

Although there are many subcategories, governments can generally be split into these two types

What are authoritarian and democratic?

200

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, but women didn't gain equality of the vote until this change to the Constitution

What is the 19th Amendment?

200

These are the people who work for interest groups in order to get legislation passed that they favor

What is a Lobbyist?

200

Vetoes, approving appointments, and impeachment proceedings are all part of this key principle to the functioning of government

What are Checks and Balances?

300

The business cycle has four main phases that it goes through

What are peak, recession, trough/depression, and recovery?

300

In this system, people elect the legislature who then elects the executive for them

What is a parliamentary democracy?

300

According to this amendment, you have more rights than the ones listed in the Constitution

What is the 9th Amendment?

300

Although not unlimited in what they can give, these groups seek to influence Congress members financially

What are Political Action Committees (PACs)

300

In a case where excessive littering or carbon emissions are present, this agency may step in and give out fines or other consequences

What is the Environmental Protection Agency?

400
If the economy is not moving fast enough, the government can use expansionary policies which include these two factors

What is cut taxes and increase spending?

400

There is one key way in which authoritarian governments are better off than democratic governments

What is the ability to make decisions/take action quickly?

400

Right to a speedy and public trial, right to a lawyer, right to an impartial jury, right to know charges against you are all protected by this essential amendment

What is the 6th Amendment?

400

Voting during elections, attending protests, and staying informed are ways people can choose to influence the government, also known as these

What are Civil Responsibilites?

400

The legislative, executive, and judicial branches all have their own unique responsibilities when it comes to what they do with the law

What is make the law, enforce the law, and interpert the law?

500
In order to slow down the economy, the FED will often times raise this rate
What is the interest rate?
500

Seen under the Articles of Confederation and during the Civil War, America has at times been this type of loosely banded government

What is a confederacy?

500

These two rights are protected under the 14th Amendment and have been used in the fight for Civil Rights since its passage

What are the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses?

500

This Supreme Court case held that corporations can spend money to influence elections

What is Citizens United v. FEC?

500

The process where bits and pieces of the Constitution are ruled to apply to the states is known as this

What is selective incorporation? 

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