Branches of the Government
These are the official three branches of government.
What are the executive branch, the judicial branch, and the legislative branch?
This building holds the inauguration of a president.
What is the U.S. Capitol Building of Washington, DC?
This Amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
This is the age you are allowed to run for president.
What is 35 years old?
This is the number of Justices on the Supreme Court.
What is 9?
The president is apart of this specific branch of government.
What is the executive branch?
This president appears on the U.S. $50 bill.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This act prohibited states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding African-Americans from voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This is the type of citizenship one is required to have to run for president.
What is a natural born U.S. citizen?
This is the number of associates on the Supreme Court.
What is 8 associates?
This branch of government is known for creating laws.
What is the legislative branch?
This person was president during the 9/11 attacks and was known for "facing the greatest challenge of any President since Abraham Lincoln."
Who is George W. Bush?
This movement fought to give women the right by law to vote in both national and local elections.
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
This is the amount of years one must be a resident within the United States to be president.
What is 14 years?
This person nominates someone for a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Who is the President of the United States?
The U.S. Supreme Court is apart of this branch of government.
What is the Judicial branch?
This president was originally an actor.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This term refers to the day when civil rights protesters marched from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery on March 7th, 1965.
What is "Bloody Sunday"?
This is the commission a candidate must register for when they raise or spend more than $5,000 for their campaign.
What is the Federal Election Commission?
As of present day this person was the only Justice to ever be impeached.
Who is Associate Justice Samuel Chase (1805)?
This group is sometimes referred to as the fourth branch of government.
What are bureaucracies?
This president had a parent who was also a U.S. president.
Who is John Quincy Adams? (son of John Adams)
This is the number of new Black voters that were registered to vote by the end of 1965.
What is a 250,000?
During these two months candidates participate in presidential debates.
What is September and October?
This is the minimum number of Justices required to decide a case.
What is 6 Justices?