Systems of Government
This is a system of government where the representatives are elected officials. (2 possible answers)
What is a Democracy/Republic?
This is the age you have to be to vote in the United States.
This branch interprets the law.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This document was signed on July 4, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What are:
-newspapers/magazines
-TV News
-Blogs/Vlogs
This is a form of government where generally a family embodies the country's national identity and it's head with supreme power.
What is a Monarchy?
This is the manipulation of district boundaries to sometimes benefit a political candidate or boundary.
What is gerrymandering?
This branch enforces the law.
What is the Executive branch?
This document includes the limitation on presidential terms, women's rights to vote, and the repeal of the prohibition amendments.
What is the US Constitution?
This is the reason that some states required a poll tax or a literacy test to vote during the first half of the 1900s
What is to legally keep guaranteed rights from anyone that is not white (mainly African Americans)?
This is actually a political theory derived by Karl Marx.
What is communism?
The first Tuesday of this month is when election day is.
What is November?
This is the branch of government can impeach the president.
What is the Legislative branch?
The first written constitution of the United States was called
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The Great Compromise made this possible by combining the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan.
What is a bicameral congress?
This is a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial as well as associated with Hitler and Mussolini?
What is fascism?
Elections that are held 2 years into a presidential term are called?
What are midterm elections?
The President of the US nominates a reality TV star with no political experience and is scandal ridden to become a Supreme Court justice. This branch would check the President's nomination.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The first 10 Amendments of the US Constitution are called
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the biggest Enlightenment idea described in the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence.
What is Life, Liberty, and Land/Pursuit of Happiness?
This system of government is usually run by a specific group of people or organization.
What is an oligarchy?
This type of gerrymandering is when voters who tend to vote for one political party are grouped into a small number of the state's districts.
What is packing?
What 3 articles of the Constitution are the Branches of Government outlined?
What are the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd?
The 26th amendment did this.
What is change voting age to 18.
The Great Compromise can also be referred to as these 2 names (list only 1)
What is the Sherman Act?
OR
What is the Connecticut Act?