What city has the largest municipality in the state of Missouri?
What is Kansas City
100
Define revenue and expenditure
Revenue: money received
Expenditure: money paid out or spent
100
What is the state capital? Identify the 4 largest cities of the state.
What is Jefferson City
What is Kansas City, Springfield, St. Louis, and Independence
100
When did Missouri become a state? When did the present Missouri Constitution go into effect?
What is August 10, 1821 and 1945
200
How many counties are in Missouri?
Give an example of county responsibility.
What is 114 counties
Examples: enforcing laws, providing police protection, prosecuting offenders, building/maintaining roads, keeping records, conducting elections, assessing property, and collecting taxes.
200
What is the oldest type of city government in the United States?
What is the mayor and council form of city government
200
Who has the responsibility in most states to make the budget? When must this person present this budget to the General Assembly?
What is the Governor and July 1st
200
Name Missouri's bordering states.
What is Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Arkansas
200
What cities have hosted the state capital?
What is St. Louis, St. Charles, and Jefferson City
300
Name at least 4 county officials.
Who are: commission clerk, prosecuting attorney, sheriff, recorder of deeds, treasurer, assessor, collector of revenue, circuit court clerk, coroner, public administrator, highway engineer, and surveyor
300
The mayor, elected by the city as a whole, is the chief executive officer of the city. Name the mayors main duties and tell how many years make up a mayors term.
What are enforcing all laws and appointing some city officers.
The mayors term is 4 years.
300
What service does the state spend the most on? What item is 2nd in money spent?
What is Human Services and Elementary/Secondary Edu.
300
What do the grizzly bears and the shield represent on the state seal?
What is (bears) the states strengths and bravery of its citizens (shield) has a symbol or the U.S. on the right and Missouri on the left to show the state supports itself and the Union
300
What is stated in Article 2 of the Missouri Constitution?
What is the powers of the government shall be divided into 3 depts: the legislative, executive, and judicial
400
What is the most common type of special-purpose district? Name at least 2 other special purpose districts.
What is a school district.
Other special purpose districts: library district, conservancy district, fire district, park district, hospital district etc.
400
Name at least 4 officials found in a city government.
Who are treasurer, city collector, city assessor, city clerk, city attorney, police magistrate, and city marshal.
400
True or False: The property tax is an important federal tax.
True or False: In recent years, the cost of government has increased.
What is False (it is a state tax) and True (the government spends more money than it takes in.
400
What year was the state seal adopted? What does the helmet symbolize? What do the roman numerals stand for?
What is 1822, the helmet symbolizes enterprise and heartiness, and the roman numerals give the date that Missouri's first constitution was adopted
400
Explain the duties of the legislative, executive, and judicial branch.
What is to make the laws, enforce and administer the laws, and interpret the laws.
500
What is home rule? Where did the ideas for townships and counties originate?
What is the local governments freedom to determine their own type of government.
England
500
True or False: A mayor does not have the power to veto legislation.
True or False: The mayor is in charge of all commissioners.
What is False and False
500
Approximately how much money does Missouri spend each year? (within 2 billion)
What is 23 billion
500
Name 5 major bodies of water in Missouri
What is Mississippi River, Missouri River, Lake of the Ozarks, Table Rock Lake, Truman Lake
500
What is the main body in the legislative branch? What two houses does it contain?
What is General Assembly
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives