Types of Government
This type of government votes for representatives to represent them.
What is a representative democracy?
The American colonists declared independence against this monarch?
What is the British?
True
This branch is responsible for declaring war.
What is the legislative branch?
In order for a candidate to win a presidential election, they need to win the ____________.
What is the electoral college?
Countries that use religious text to inform how they govern.
What is a theocracy?
The Declaration of Independence was written by this president.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What is the division of power between the states and central government?
This branch can override a veto with 2/3 majority in the House and Senate.
What is the legislative branch?
True or False: The popular vote wins a presidential election.
False
What is a constitutional monarchy?
Name of the war that put the British in debt and made them begin to collect taxes.
What is the French and Indian War?
What is the supreme law of the land?
This branch declares if a law or policy is constitutional or unconstitutional.
What is the judicial branch?
The number of electoral votes for a candidate to win a presidential election.
What is 270?
In South Africa during apartheid only the white minority could vote.
What is an oligarchy?
Americans saw evidence of the deliberate conspiracy to crush liberty in these two acts.
What is the Stamp Act and Coercive Act?
Name for a trial where the Senate acts as the jury and a committee of House members act as the prosecuting attorneys accusing a judge or sitting president of violating the Constitution.
What is an impeachment?
This branch nominates judges to the Supreme Court.
What is the judicial branch?
The name for states that sometimes go blue or red in different election years.
What is a swing state?
Like a dictatorship but involving only a few people, usually involving a military takeover.
What is a junta?
This line was proclaimed by the British to prevent American settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
Most recently Trump issued declarations such as that English should be the official language and that birthright citizenship should be changed. The name for these types of orders.
What is an Executive Order?
This branch of government may grant amnesty and give pardons.
What is the Executive Branch?
This branch has a cabinet responsible for governing things like the Department of Defense and the Department of Education.
What is the Executive Branch?