General Assembly
Constitution
Illinois History
Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
100
This is how members of the General Assembly are elected.
What is by the people?
100
This is the number of constitutions Illinois has had.
What is four?
100
This is the year Illinois was discovered.
What is 1673?
100
The General Assembly is another name for what two Legislative Bodies.
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
100
This person is the most important officer in the Executive Branch.
What is the Governor?
200
A member of the General Assembly must be this age.
What is 21?
200
This is the year the first Illinois constitution was written.
What is 1818?
200
This war was fought to free up land east of the Mississippi.
What is the French and Indian War?
200
This is what the Legislative Branch does.
What is makes laws?
200
This is the governor's term of office.
What is four years? (Just like the President of the United States)
300
These are the number of Senatorial and Representative Districts.
What is 59 for Senate and 118 for House of Representatives?
300
This is the year the third constitution was written.
What is 1870?
300
This is the month, day, and year Illinois was admitted as a state.
What is December 3, 1818?
300
This person is the presiding officer of the House of Representatives.
What is the Speaker of the House?
300
This is the age a Governor must be to serve.
What is 25 years old?
400
This is when the elections are held for members of the General Assembly.
What is on even-numbered years?
400
This is when the second Illinois constitution was written.
What is 1848?
400
Illinois became the ________ state.
What is 21st?
400
This group must approve appointments made by the Governor.
What is the Senate?
400
These are the three types of vetoes.
What is regular, item or reduction, and amendatory?
500
This is the name of the presiding officer of the Senate.
What is the President of the Senate?
500
This is the month, day, and year the final constitution was written. (the fourth)
What is July 1, 1971?
500
This person invented the prairie plow and this is what it did for Illinois.
What is John Deere and it made it a major agricultural state?
500
This is what the General Assembly needs to conduct business.
What is a majority? For all your points what is the fraction of people to have a majority?
500
These are the four offices in line after the Governor and Lt. Governor for the Executive Offices.
What is the Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, and Treasurer?
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