Federal Courts
This landmark 1802 case established the Supreme Court's power of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The 1st amendment protects these five freedoms.
What are freedom of religion, speech, the press, assembly, and the right to petition the government?
This term refers to a diplomatic mission's branch office, similar to an embassy, located outside a state's capital.
What is a consulate?
This body was created after WWII to bring the President's cabinet and department heads together to discuss urgent, top-down matters.
What is the National Security Council?
This 1970s scandal involved a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and led to President Nixon's resignation.
What is Watergate?
This Federalist New Yorker served as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
Who is John Jay?
This state was the first to ratify the Constitution in 1787.
What is Delaware?
State absorbed this agency in 2024 after it was cut by DOGE.
What is USAID?
This is the process by which the Department of State, the Department of War, and the White House communicate to consolidate national security policy.
What is the interagency process?
This 19th century belief insisted that Americans were divinely ordained to expand westward across the North American continent.
What is manifest destiny?
Meaning "to be more fully informed" in Latin, litigants must file this document to request the Supreme Court to hear a case.
What is a writ of certiorari?
This document preceded the Constitution, which failed because the federal government it chartered was far too weak.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The State Department office is located in this DC neighborhood near George Washington University.
What is Foggy Bottom?
This former National Security Advisor under Trump was replaced by Marco Rubio after the "Signalgate" in 2025.
Who is Michael Waltz?
These two men are the only presidents to have served non-consecutive terms.
Who are Cleveland and Trump?
These nine individuals are the current justices sitting on the Supreme Court.
Who are Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett, and Brown Jackson?
This 1920 amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
This man served as the first Secretary of State, appointed in 1789, and was later the 3rd US president.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This scandal under Reagan involved illicit arms sales in exchange for hostages, violating the US policy against negotiating with terrorists.
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
This 26th US president practiced big stick diplomacy, preaching the value of calm negotiation alongside military strength.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This late justice, known as the "Great Dissenter," is famous for his lone dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson.
Who is John Marshall Harlan?
These three amendments are known as the Civil War Amendments, ratified between 1865 and 1870.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
Ambassador Bradley was head of the US diplomatic mission in this country.
What is Guatemala?
This covert CIA program, active in the 1950s and 60s, used LSD and other drugs in research on mind control and effective interrogation methods.
What is MKUltra?
This 1820 law was ruled unconstitutional by the Dred Scott case in 1857, paving the way for the Civil War.
What is the Missouri Compromise?