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Foundations of Government
Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
Judicial Branch
Political Participation
100
This period emphasized reason and science over blind faith or religion.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
Where a bill spends most of its time in Congress.
What is in Committee
100
The major responsibility of this organization is to protect the welfare of food consumers.
What is the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)?
100
Examples of unalienable rights.
What is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
100
This group is created to raise and donate money for political campaigns.
What is a PAC (political action committee)?
200
This is what the Anti-Federalists demanded to be added to the U.S. Constitution?
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
This amendment changed the way that the Senate was elected.
What is the 17th Amendment?
200
The 8 major roles of the President
What are (1) chief of state, (2) chief executive, (3) chief administrator, (4) chief diplomat, (5) commander in chief, (6) chief legislator, (7) party chief, and (8) chief citizen.
200
The right of the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
200
This is the group of people that actually elect the President of the United States.
What is the Electoral College?
300
A power shared by both the state and federal government is a(n) ______________________ power, a power that is written specifically in the Constitution is a(n)________________________ power.
What is concurrent and expressed.
300
This happens when states redistrict their political power to favor one group or political party over another.
What is gerrymandering?
300
The United States can pass this to prevent trade between countries and influence the actions and policies of other nations.
What is an embargo?
300
This case reinforced an accused person's right to an attorney, regardless of whether they could pay for one.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
300
The requirements to vote for President of the United States.
What is U.S. citizen, 18 years old (or older), and meet state residency requirements.
400
This Founding Father supported the government by being one of the authors of the Federalist Papers, later becoming the Father of the Constitution, and serving as the President of the United States.
Who is James Madison.
400
There are 435 members elected every 2 years.
What is the House of Representatives.
400
This group regulates all interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.
What is the FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
400
This amendment requires all people to be treated equally regardless of race or ethnicity.
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
The two main political parties currently in the United States and their major differences.
What are Democrats (pro-social programs, government spending; anti-war) and Republicans (pro-business and traditional values; pro-war)
500
The principle represented in the quote below: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
What is federalism?
500
These people are in charge of influencing Congressional representatives to make laws in the interests of specific groups.
Who are lobbyists?
500
In this excerpt from the U.S. Department of State website, the U.S. is using this foreign policy tool. “Executive Order 13661, issued on March 17, 2014, under the national emergency with respect to Ukraine that find that the actions and policies of the Russian government with respect to Ukraine – including through the deployment of Russian military forces in the Crimea region of Ukraine – undermine democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine; threaten its peace, security, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity; and contribute to the misappropriation of its assets.”
What is diplomatic sanctions?
500
All of the rights protected in the Bill of Rights.
What is 1-Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, Petition; 2-Right to Bear Arms; 3-Right not to Quarter Soldiers; 4-Protection against Search and Seizure; 5-Right to Due Process of Law; 6-Right to Speedy Trial with an Attorney; 7-Right to Trial by Jury; 8-Protection against Cruel and Unusual Punishment; 9-Individual Rights; 10-States' Rights
500
These two interest groups represent the two largest minorities in the United States. They were created primarily to solve problems through litigation in courts.
What are the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens)?