Government Stuff
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Picture Time
Were you here?
100
This branch sets the budget for the US government.
What is the legislative branch? (Congress)
100
The original US had this many colonies.
What are 13 Colonies?
100
This type of society is led by a woman and is the antithesis of the patriarchy.
What is a matriarchal society?
100
This cartoon shows the power of Robber Barons during this period of US history.
What is the Gilded Age?
100
This score on the GED will allow you to avoid taking developmental classes in college.
What is above 165?
200
This government position serves for life with good behavior.
What is a Federal Judge or Supreme Court Justice?
200
This famous event in 1692 led to the death 20 people and the arrest of more than 200 in a Massachussetts town.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
200
This meeting in upstate New York in 1848 was the first national meeting on women's suffrage.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
200
This cartoon represents this concept for the three branches of government that protect from having a single power.
What are the checks and balances/seperation of powers?
200
Clara Barton founded this organization working as a field nurse during the Civil War.
What is the American Red Cross?
300
This was the year that the US Constitution was signed.
What is 1787?
300
This war was an effort by the United States to stop the spread of communist ideas.
What is the Cold War?
300
This golden age starlet left her hometown in St Louis to become a star of the stage in France. Later, she also spied for the Allies during WWII.
Who is Josephine Baker?
300
These countries all had female leaders located along the Nile, western Africa, and in the Andes. Name the countries, each 100pts. 
What are Egypt, Benin (Dahomey), and Peru?
300
If a man earns $50,000 per year how much a Hispanic woman earn at the same job?
What is $25,000? (Half)
400
A presidential veto to a bill can be overridden by this percent or fraction of the US Congress.
What is 2/3 super majority ?
400
Term for segregation mandated by law, often seen in the Southern states after the Civil War.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
400
This leader of women's suffrage movement wrote about the "Destructive Male"
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
400
This map shows how a president wins which uses this special process.
What is the Electoral College?
400
There are several Amendments that protect a person's rights in court; name 2 of them for 200pts each.
What are Amendments 5, 6, 7, 8?
500
This is the number of Amendments to the Constitution that altered who can vote. BONUS 100pts for each number of the amendement.
What is 3?
15th - gave non-white men
19th -gave women
26th -gave 18+ ability to vote
500
During the 1800s there were numerous reforms to life in the US, name 5 systems that were altered. (100pts each)
Abolition (Slavery)
Industrialization
Workers' Rights
Education
Prison
Temperance (Alcohol)
500
This first lady told her soon-to-be president husband, John, "Don't forget the ladies."
Who is Abigail Adams?
500
If you spend $1200 in total per month, this would be spend on food.
What is $240 for food?
500
These 5 states were part of the Union during the Civil War, but kept slavery until the 13th Amendment was signed. Name them for 100pts each
What are:
Delaware
Maryland
West Virginia
Kentucky
Missouri