Foundations of Democracy
Interactions of Government Branches
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Political Ideologies
Political Participation
100

Political philosophers (2) who are key to the ideologies presented in the Declaration

Who are John Locke and Thomas Hobbs?

100

The act that established 435 as the set number of Representatives within the House of Representatives.

What is the Reapportionment Act of 1929?

100

This person was a member of the Black Panther Organization. They believed in keeping segregation due to the fact that there was a large amount of white people who did not want to be around African Americans, so why force them to be in places together.

Who is Malcom X?
100

The way in which we come to have our views on the political world.

What is political socialization?

100

This Amendment expanded voting to all genders

What is the 19th Amendment?

200

The number of Articles within the United States Constitution

What is 7 Articles?
200

The drawing of voting districts to give advantage to one political party; the Governor may choose someone to draw these lines.

What is Gerrymandering?

200
The practice of segregation in reality, different than what is written. It can be influenced by school populations, neighborhoods, demographics around them.

What is De Facto Segregation?

200

Where and when a public opinion poll takes place, the people asked, and the questions that are asked are examples of

What are biases?

200

Voting based upon predictions of how a party candidate will perform in the future.

What is Prospective voting?

300

The key human rights listed within the Declaration of Independence

What are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

300

The amount of votes needed to overrule a Presidential veto in Congress.

What is a 2/3s majority?

300

This Amendment gave all races the right to vote within the United States.

What is the 15th Amendment?

300

Connects us to the government

What are linkage institutions?

300

The amendment that lowered the voting age to 18

What is the 26th Amendment?

400

Key weaknesses within the Articles of Confederation(multiple answers, but 3 main ones)

What are no federal military, no federal taxes and each state having its own currency?

400

Someone who does not use their own opinion or the opinion of their constituents, but rather does what would be best for their political party

What is a politico?

400

The set of Amendments included after the ratification of the Constitution to ensure that all people kept their civil liberties.

What is the Bill of Rights?

400

Based on an idea of supply-side economics; control economy by customer demand, to spark economy need to increase the demand for a product.

What are Keynesian policies?

400

The media, interest groups, PACs, political parties and campaign signs are all examples of 

What are linkage institutions?

500

The compromise between large and small states creating the bicameral legislative branch we know today. One Branch was equal representation for the states no matter what the population was (benefiting smaller states), and the other was representation based upon the population (benefiting the larger states).

What is the Connecticut Compromise?

500

The first three people, after the President, on the Presidential Succession List.

Who are the Vice President, the Speaker of the House, and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate?

500

The concept of sticking with the original rulings given in the Supreme Court.

What is stare decisis?

500

The Central Banking System of the United States, a.k.a. The Fed

What is the Federal Reserve?

500

A Supreme Court case focusing on the McCain-Feingold Act. FEC wanted to block the movie "Hillary" (a movie about Hillary Clinton and her running for President). Ruled that the movie would violate campaign spending guide laws under the McCain-Feingold Act, and therefore the propaganda/spending is not allowed.

What is Citizens United v FEC?