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Elections
Check and Balances
Presidential Cabinet
Constitutional Amendments
Grab Bag
100
The number of Electoral College votes required to win the Presidency.
What is 270
100
A Presidential check against the Congress.
What is a veto?
100
The most recently created Department.
What is Homeland Security?
100
Established 18 as the national voting age.
What is the 26th Amendment?
100
This amendment changed how the President and Vice President are selected.
What is the eleventh amendment?
200
What the elections are called when candidates from the same party are running against each other for the same office.
What are primaries?
200
A check against the Presidency, not associated will passing laws.
What is impeachment?
200
This department is responsible for managing the nation's Military Cemeteries.
What is the VA?
200
Changed the method of selecting Senators.
What is the 12th Amendment?
200
The events where the nominees of the Democrats and the Republicans for President are announced.
What are the D or R National Conventions?
300
Candidates in Presidential primaries are are awarded these when they win a state's primary election.
What are delegates?
300
A check against the President that does not have to do with passing a law.
What is the Senate's advise and consent role on appointments?
300
The Department containing the National Weather Service and that promotes US exports.
What is Commerce?
300
Collectively these are referred to as the Civil Rights Amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.
300
The minimum percentage of votes a candidate for the US Senate must win to win the election.
What is a majority?
400
Some states hold these meetings in order to determine the winner of their state's primaries.
What is a caucus?
400
A check the Judiciary has against Congress.
What is declaring laws as unconstitutional?
400
the Department that administers the food stamp program.
What is Agriculture?
400
Gives all powers not reserved for Congress to the states.
What is the 10th Amendment?
400
Many Anti-Federalists would have supported the Constitution had it included this.
What is a Bill of Rights?
500
All but these two states award their Electoral College in a winner-takes-all format.
What ME and NE?
500
A Congressional check against the Judiciary.
What is judicial impeachment?
500
The three original Cabinet Departments.
What are State, Treasury and War?
500
Afforded Women suffrage rights.
What is the 19th Amendment?
500
The first President to be elected from the Republican Party.
Who is Lincoln?