Structure of Congress
Structure of Congress #2
North v. South
Congress Specialties
Passing Laws
100

The number of members for the House of Representatives and the Senate

What is 100 for the Senate and 435 for the House of Representatives?
100
The proceedings that must start in the House of Representatives.

What is impeachment?

100

The focuses of economies for the North and South.

What is industry for the North, agriculture for the South?

100

A filibuster.

What is when a Senator attempts to hold up a bill from being passed.

100

True or false: The House and Senate must pass the same exact version of the bill.

True

200

The age you must be to serve in each chamber of Congress

What is 25 for the House of Representatives, and 30 for the Senate?

200
The bills that must start in the House of Representatives.

What is tax (appropriation bills)?

200

The climate of the North and South.

What is warm summers and tough winters for the North, hot summers and mild winters in the South.

200

Rules of the filibuster.

What is you must stay standing the whole time, can only drink water or milk, no eating, cannot leave to use the bathroom, must talk the whole time.

200

What percentage of bills die in committee?

What is 90%?

300

The number of years you must be a citizen to serve in each chamber of Congress.

What is 7 for the House of Representatives, and 9 for the Senate.

300

These are not binding until ratified by the Senate.

What is Treaties?

300

The geography of the North and South.

What is hilly and rocky for the North, flat and fertile soil in the South?
300

The way a senator can use the bathroom during a filibuster.

What is by having an ally ask a question the entire time they're gone?

300

The actions a president can take when he gets the bill.

What is pass it or veto it?

400

The number of years you serve if elected to each chamber of Congress.

What is 2 years for the House of Representatives, and 6 years for the Senate.
400

The senate must approve these decisions the president makes (please also give the definition).

What is appointments, or when the president gives someone a job?

400

The reason the North had a large amount of workers.

What is many immigrants?

400

The longest filibuster in history.

What is 25 hours and five minutes?

400

The reason committees are so important to the law-making process.

What is that they speed up the process since they are the first ones to see it and decide whether it is worth being seen by the entire chamber.

500

The leader of each chamber of Congress.

What is the Speaker of the House for the House of Representatives, and Vice President for the Senate.

500

The person who takes over if the vice president cannot be in the Senate.

What is president pro-tempore?
500

Explain why the South focused more on slavery than the North.

The south focused more on slavery because their climate and geography was more suitable for agriculture, and they believed they needed slavery to create the most profit possible from their agriculture.
500

The senator who did the longest filibuster in history.

What is Cory Booker?

500
The purpose of a Conference Committee.

What is a committee made up of members from both the House and Senate who make a compromise bill both chambers can agree on?