Article I of the Constitution establishes this branch, which makes the laws in the US.
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Ratified in 1865, it abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
100
It is our nation's top law enforcement agency, and since 2001 one of its main objectives has been to battle terrorism.
What is the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)?
100
This is the term for money that the government takes in. Taxes are the most common way that the government collects it.
What is revenue?
100
These types of powers in the Constitution are established by the Elastic Clause.
What are implied powers?
200
Established by Article II of the Constitution, this branch of government enforces the laws and is headed by the president.
What is the executive branch?
200
This amendment defines citizenship, guarantees equal protection under the law, and protects due process rights to all citizens.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
200
The purpose of this agency is to gather intelligence and spy on the activities of foreign countries.
What is the Central Intelligence Agency?
200
This is a tax that is placed on the amount of money a person earns.
What is income tax?
200
This term refers to the removal of a president who has violated the Constitution.
What is impeachment?
300
Article III of the Constitution establishes this branch, which is made up of the federal courts and interprets the laws.
What is the judicial branch?
300
This 1920 Amendment granted women suffrage.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
300
Their job is to conduct research and respond to potential outbreaks of serious diseases and health threats.
What is the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)?
300
These taxes are placed on "luxury" items, such as alcohol and tobacco.
What are excise taxes?
300
This power of the judicial branch is the authority to declare a law unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
400
This is the number of senators each state gets in Congress.
What is two?
400
The president is limited to 2 terms in office as a result of this Amendment.
What is the Twenty-Second Amendment?
400
This agency's job is to plan for and respond to hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.
What is the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA)?
400
This type of tax increases in percentage as a person's income rises.
What is a progressive tax?
400
It is taken every 10 years, and one of its purposes is to count the population so that each state can receive adequate representation in Congress.
What is the census?
500
The number of representatives a state gets in the House of Reps is determined by this.
What is population?
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It establishes the legal voting age for national elections to be 18 years.
What is the Twenty-Sixth Amendment?
500
This agency conducts studies for improving transportation safety and investigates plane crashes, train wrecks, and other accidents involving modes of transportation.
What is the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)?
500
This type of tax takes a larger percentage of income from people who earn less.
What is a regressive tax?
500
This person's job is to preside over the Senate when the vice president is absent.