House of Representatives
Senate
Amendments
Duties/Powers of Congress
How a Bill Becomes a Law
100
How many members there are in the House of Representatives
What is 435?
100
The age requirement for US Senators:
What is 30 years old?
100
This amendment protects people from UNREASONABLE search and seizure
What is the 4th Amendment?
100
This is a tax paid by the person on whom it is imposed.
What is a direct tax?
100
The very first step in a bill becoming a law
What is laws begin as ideas?
200
The leader of the House of Representatives
Who is the Speaker of the House?
200
The kind of terms that each senator serves:
What is staggered six year terms?
200
These three Amendments addressed issues of slavery. Specifically, the abolition of slavery, the citizenship of African Americans and the right of African American men to vote.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
200
This word is a legal proceeding in which a person's assets are distributed among those to whom a debt is owed.
What is bankruptcy?
200
These are the three choices the President has when he receives a bill from the Senate.
What is sign the bill, veto the bill or pocket veto the bill?
300
The age requirement for a Representative in the House of Representatives
What is 25 years old?
300
The name of the Senators of Tennessee
Who are Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker?
300
This Amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
This word means the right of an author to reproduce, publish or sell his creative work
What is copyright?
300
This is the special box on the desk of the clerk for the House of Representatives where a bill is placed to be assigned a number and read out loud.
What is the hopper?
400
How many representatives the state of Tennessee has in the House of Representatives
What is 11 representatives?
400
The Senator that was technically elected when he was 29 years old, but was 30 before he was sworn in
Who is Joe Biden?
400
These are the five rights covered by the First Amendment:
What are the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly and the right to petition?
400
The only two Presidents to be impeached by the House of Representatives, but they were not impeached by the Senate
Who were Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton?
400
Once the bill goes through all of the steps in the House of Representatives, this is where the bill will go next.
What is the Senate?
500
The name of the Representative for Hixson, TN
Who is Chuck Fleischmann?
500
The Chamber of the Senate is designed in a semicircle with each political party on opposite sides. These sides are reserved for each individual political party.
What is Republicans on the right and Democrats on the left
500
This woman was a Vietnam American who wanted to design a memorial for the Vietnam veterans and designed the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, DC.
Who is Maya Lin?
500
Only seven people have been impeached by both the House and the Senate. All of them had this title.
Who were federal judges?
500
A bill can be voted on in three ways in the House of Representatives. These are the three ways:
What is viva voce, division and recorded?
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