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American History
100
The minimum age for someone to be voted in as a U.S. Senator.
What is Thirty (30)?
100
Where the president works and lives.
What is the White House?
100
More serious crimes heard in general trial courts.
What are felonies?
100
Established the power of Judicial Review for the Supreme Court.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
100
The first successful British colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
200
The title for the most powerful member of the House of Representatives.
What is the Speaker of the House?
200
The indirect method used to elect the President of the United States.
What is the Electoral College?
200
Depicted below, this person is found in most court houses and represents the Judicial Branch as a whole.
Who is Lady Justice?
200
Overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine and began desegregating public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
200
Granted women suffrage, or the right to vote, in the United States.
What is the Nineteenth (19th) Amendment?
300
An oddly shaped district designed to increase voting strength for a particular group.
What is gerrymandering?
300
This Amendment to the United States Constitution made provisions for presidential succession.
What is the Twenty-Fifth (25th) Amendment?
300
An appeals court sending a case back down to a lower court.
What is remand?
300
Segregation based on race was constitutional and the doctrine "separate but equal" was established.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
The sites of the first battle of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington and Concord?
400
Senators talk a bill to death.
What is Filibustering?
400
Efforts to punish another nation by imposing trade barriers.
What are Tarriffs?
400
The opinion written by a Supreme Court Justice that disagrees with the majority's opinion.
What is the Dissenting Opinion?
400
Ruled that Congress had powers beyond those listed in the Constitution and in a conflict between the national government and state governments, the national government is supreme.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
400
The only President to resign from his position.
Who is Richard Nixon?
500
Government projects and grants that primarily benefit a Congress member's home state.
What is Pork-Barrel Projects?
500
What the president may grant to pardon a group of people.
What is Amnesty?
500
Jurisdiction for a case that can be heard in either federal or state courts.
What is Concurrent Jurisdiction?
500
Upheld the power of the federal government to intern American citizens during World War II to protect against espionage.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
500
Considered one of the originators of the Democratic Party.
Who is Andrew Jackson?