When someone votes for candidates from different parties during one election.
What is a split ticket?
100
As leader of the military, our President is called this.
What is Commander-in-Chief?
100
An election to choose a government official from a slate of candidates.
What is general election?
100
Oversees the FDA (Food and Drug Administration).
What is the Dept of Heath and Human Services?
100
Each political party must develop this before/during the national convention.
What is a platform?
200
The local level of the party.
What is "grass roots"?
200
True or False? Most relations between foreign countries is how handled by executive agreement.
What is true?
200
An election to choose a candidate.
What is a primary?
200
Oversees the military.
What is the Defense Dept.?
200
The law that prevents Presidents from putting their friends into office.
What is the spoils system?
300
Appointing your friends into government positions.
What is the spoils system?
300
A recess appointment is made when...
What is Congress is not in session?
300
At least 3 duties of political parties.
What is 1) select candidates, 2) adopt party platform, 3) get citizens involved, 4) make officer holder do his work well, 5) be a watchdog to all in office.
300
Prepares the national budget.
What is the Treasury Dept?
300
The state that had a humorous recount during the Bush vs. Gore Presidential election.
What is Florida?
400
The boundaries of a voting district.
What is a precinct?
400
The President may be impeached for what reasons?
What is treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors?
400
This allows a citizen unable to go to the polls the ability to vote.
What is an absentee ballot?
400
Oversees all the prisons.
What is the Justice Dept.?
400
Techniques used by political parties to persuade the public to vote for their candidate.
What is propaganda?
500
A typically unanimous voice vote.
What is acclamation?
500
Name three positions the President appoints.
What is ambassadors, Supreme Court Judges, federal judges, and/or Cabinet members.
500
The kind of ballot used in America.
What is the Australian ballot?
500
Provides weather reports from weather stations maintained all of the country.
What is the Dept of Commerce?
500
What is it called when someone uses words that are very general and sound nice, but don't really mean anything?