Government
What were the principle that the founders used in creating the USA?
What is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
What rights do you get from being a US citizen?
What is voting, hold public office or serve on jury's?
What are the two major political parties?
What are Republicans and Democrats?
What is the minimum age to be able to vote in America?
What is eighteen?
What is women's suffrage?
What is the right for women to vote?
What type of government did the founders make to reflect self government?
What is representative democracy or republic?
The Constitution defines natural born citizens in three ways. What are those three ways?
What is
1. You have to ne born in the US.
2. Born to American citizens who are in a different country.
3. Born in Puerto Rico, Guam, or the US Virgin Islands.
How are you designated when you don't specifically support any party?
What is Independent?
Aside from age, what are two requirements you need to be eligible to vote?
What is
1. Be a legal citizen of the US
2. Live in the city and stare wear your plan to vote.
3. You must be registered to vote.
What is the 19th amendment and why was it added?
What is giving women the right to vote? 1920
How do we prevent the abuse of power by one branch of government?
What is checks and balances, by the three branches of government?
What is the name of the process of becoming an American citizen?
What is the naturalization process?
The election of government officials is done in a two part process. What are the two parts?
What is to win the party's nomination and to win in the general election?
What is the 26th amendment and why was it added?
What is lowering the voting age from 21 to 18. They added it because during the Vietnam war they were drafting 18 year old's. pasted in 1971.
What was the 15th amendment and why was it added, and what year?
What is universal suffrage, gave the right to vote regardless of race? In 1870.
What are the three branches of government?
What is Legislative, Executive, Judicial?
What are the four criteria to be eligible for naturalization?
What is
1. Be a US resident for minimum of five years.
2. Must live in the state your applying for citizenship for 6 months.
3. You must have entered the US legally.
4.You must be at least 18 years old.
What is a platform?
What is the statement of a political party's position on various issues?
What was the poll tax, and why was it imposed?
What is a fee you had to pay in order to vote? They added it so poor people could not vote.
What is it called when you mail in your vote?
What is an absentee ballot?
List three ways that citizens fulfill there responsibility of citizenship?
What is voting, public service(military or volunteer work), jury duty, have a government job?
What are the six steps of the naturalization process?
What is
1. Submit an application to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
2. Take an examination.
3. File a petition for naturalization with a court.
4. Two American citizens must sponsor you.
5. Take an oath of alliance to the US.
6. Judge has to sign an order granting citezenship and you receive a certificate of naturalization.
What is a referendum?
What is a proposal for a law that is submitted by a legislative body for a popular vote?
What was the 24th amendment, and when and why was it added?
What is ending poll taxes in national elections? Added in 1964 to allow more people to vote.
What is the electoral college?
What is the prosses for electing the president, the electors vote for the candidate who won the popular vote in there state. The electors for a state equal the number of senators plus the number of representatives. To win, the candidate needs at least 270 electoral votes.