Congress in Action
This chamber brings impeachment charges against a president.
What is the House of Representatives?
A presidential term lasts this many years.
What is four?
This agency’s initials are NASA, and its work includes space exploration.
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
A verdict of not guilty is called this.
What is an acquittal?
This amendment abolished slavery, except as punishment for a crime after conviction.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This chamber conducts a president’s impeachment trial.
What is the Senate?
This body formally casts the electoral votes that select the president.
What is the Electoral College?
This agency insures eligible deposits at participating banks.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC?
This kind of jury decides whether there is enough evidence to issue an indictment.
What is a grand jury?
This amendment prohibits denying the vote on account of gender.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
When senators prolong debate to delay action on legislation, they use this tactic.
What is a filibuster?
A person must have resided in the United States for at least this many years to qualify for the presidency.
What is fourteen?
This system serves as the central bank of the United States.
What is the Federal Reserve System?
A defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for concessions from the prosecution. This agreement has this name.
What is a plea bargain?
This amendment protects voting rights for citizens age eighteen and older against denial based on age.
What is the Twenty-Sixth Amendment?
This Senate procedure brings debate to a close and can overcome a filibuster.
What is cloture?
If no presidential candidate receives an electoral majority, this chamber chooses the president, with each state delegation having one vote.
What is the House of Representatives?
A bank customer asks about deposit insurance, while an economist studies central banking. These two institutions address those topics, respectively.
What are the FDIC and the Federal Reserve?
This Supreme Court decision rejected racial segregation in public schools as inherently unequal.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This amendment prohibits poll taxes as a condition for voting in federal elections.
What is the Twenty-Fourth Amendment?
A president is impeached but remains in office after acquittal. Conviction would have required this fraction of senators present.
What is two-thirds?
A vice president succeeds to the presidency with more than two years left in the term. Under the Twenty-Second Amendment, that person may then be elected president this many times.
What is once?
A student says the Federal Reserve insures bank deposits and the FDIC conducts monetary policy. Correct both assignments.
What are the FDIC insures eligible bank deposits, and the Federal Reserve conducts monetary policy?
A court decides whether a statute violates the Constitution. Identify both the branch exercising this authority and the name of the power.
What are the judicial branch and judicial review?
These two amendments established national Prohibition and later repealed it, respectively.
What are the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments?