Constitution
This amendment protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
He was the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This body formally elects the president of the United States.
What is the Electoral College?
There are this many U.S. senators from each state.
What is two?
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people" comes from this Lincoln speech.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This branch of government interprets laws and includes the Supreme Court.
What is the judicial branch?
He issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A presidential candidate needs this many electoral votes to win.
What is 270?
Members of the House of Representatives serve this many years per term.
What is two years?
This founding document begins with "When in the Course of human events..."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This constitutional principle divides power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is separation of powers?
He was president during the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This term describes states that are competitive and can realistically be won by either major party.
What are swing states or battleground states?
This is the minimum age to serve in the U.S. Senate.
What is 30?
This Indiana-born vice president served under Donald Trump.
Who is Mike Pence?
This process allows Congress to formally accuse and try certain federal officials for misconduct.
What is impeachment?
He was the only U.S. president to resign from office.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This is the process by which voters choose a party's candidate before the general election.
What is a primary election?
This power allows the Supreme Court to strike down laws that violate the Constitution.
What is judicial review?
This Federalist Papers author later became the first Treasury secretary.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This amendment reserves powers not delegated to the federal government to the states or the people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
He served as both president and chief justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is William Howard Taft?
If no presidential candidate wins an Electoral College majority, this chamber chooses the president.
What is the House of Representatives?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This phrase describes the idea that government power comes from the consent of the governed.
What is popular sovereignty?