When a presidential appointment is confirmed by the Senate, that is a check of the legislative branch over the executive. That is a check of the legislative branch over the __________ branch.
What is executive branch?
100
13th, 4th and 15th amendments were undermined by
What are Jim Crow Laws?
100
People and cultures combine to a degree in which a homogeneous culture is created from many.
What is Melting Pot
200
The success of NATO immediately after WWII is generally believed to have been dependent on the inclusion of __________ in the organization?
What is The United States
200
which government agency regulates the television and radio industry?
What is the FCC?
200
The idea of checks and balances
What is no branch becomes too powerful. Each branch has power over the others.
200
Women were given the right to vote in what amendment?
What is the 19th?
200
-Producing all postage stamps, currency, and coinage
-managing government accounts and the United States debt
-enforcing Federal finance and tax laws
What is Treasury Department?
300
NATO was created when?
What is during the Cold War
300
Which government agency would investigate the claim of hazardous working conditions?
What is OSHA?
300
An example of the president using checks and balances
What is Veto?
300
president Eisnhower sent troops in to Central High School because they refused to?
What is inergrate or end educational segregation?
300
A duty the president must perform in the first few weeks of each new year to explain to the American people his vision for America.
What is the State of The Union Address?
400
What was NATO's purpose?
What is to unify all the member countries against communism?
400
Which government agency is considered a government corporation?
What is The United States Postal Service?
400
An example of checks and balances in Congress
What is Power to impeach
400
During WWII this group of people were sent to interment camps because the government was afraid they would be spies.
What are Japanese- Americans
400
The three qualifications for becoming president of the United States.
What is Native- born
35 years old
resident of the United states for 14 years
500
NATO had how may original country members?
What is 12?
500
____________ is considered an "independent agency" of the Federal Government?
What is the FCC?
500
What is the purpose of checks and balances?
What is no branch of the government becomes too powerful?
500
Brown V. Topeka Board of Education overturned this Supreme Court Case?
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
500
If the president needed to settle a diplomatic situation with Great Britain, which cabinet position would most likely be sent to carry out the mission?