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The country of ___________ is currently invading the Eastern European country of ___________.
What are Russia and Ukraine?
Bonus: 200 points each: Name the leaders of these 2 countries?
The Trump initiative to find and eliminate wasteful government spending and reduce the size of the U.S. Federal workforce?
What is DOGE?
What successful businessman was the first leader of that initiative?
The 2 chambers of our National Legislature.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
An idea or law that is supported by 2 or more political parties or ideologies.
What is Bi-Partisan?
The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee.
What is asylum?
2 answers. Worth Double.
The Islamic Holy Book and places of Islamic worship.
What is the Koran and a Mosque?
The year and month of the next Presidential Election.
What is November of 2028?
With a spending bill that has not passed through the Congress, this has been the result.
What is a Government Shutdown?
Bonus: How many votes does a spending bill need in the Senate to pass?
The month and year when the next Midterm Federal election will take place.
What is November 2026?
The 3 branches of our Federal Government.
What are the Executive, Legislative and the Judicial Branches?
The political ideology that is much more of the view that the government is to provide for those who cannot provide for themselves.
What is a liberal?
process by which individuals learn and frequently internalize a political lens framing their perceptions of how power is arranged and how the world around them is organized.
Learning how to behave politically.
What is Political Socialization?
A struggle or fight against the enemies of Islam and for the protection of the Islamic community.
What is Jihad?
Bonus: What is the goal of the most extreme Islamic Jihadists?
A directive issued by the U.S. President that has the force of law, typically instructing federal agencies on how to implement or carry out existing laws.
What is an Executive Order?
What the phrase "The worst first", being used by President Trump is referring to.
What is the deportation of Criminal illegal aliens?
a government where a religious body or leader holds all political power, making religious laws the laws of the land, rather than laws based on secular principles
What is a Theocracy?
Give the word
and then the correct order
Division of powers between different levels of government and what those levels are top to bottom.
What is federalism? The Constitution, Federal, state, county, and local.
On the simple political spectrum, the political ideology that worked for decades to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision and what issue Roe v. Wade is about.
What is conservatives and abortion?
To become a citizen of a country in which you were not born?
What is naturalization?
Bonus: What is the Obama program that potentially gives children brought to the U.S. illegally a pathway to being legal and eventually citizenship?
The Executive Department in charge of the U.S. border, deportation and airport security.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
The Constitutional directive puts the President of the United States in charge of the military.
What is the Commander in Chief?
The reason President Trump is fairly confident in his Executive Order to change the interpretation of "Birthright Citizenship".
What is a conservative Supreme Court?
On the diamond political spectrum, name the 2 political ideologies (NOT moderate) that would most likely NOT support expanding our current Social Security system.
2 answers
What is a Conservative AND Libertarian?
The Amendment that gives power to the States on things NOT specifically mentioned in the Constitution.
What is the 10th Amendment?
The ideology on the diamond shaped spectrum that is likely most in favor of the Trump National Guard Deployments. (pick 1 of the 4)
What is Authoritarian or Statist?
a government characterized by specialization of functions, adherence to fixed rules, and a hierarchy of authority all with the intent of running a government or agency.
What is bureaucracy?
The purpose of the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, is to Protect the _______________ from the ___________________!
What is the "Protect the People from the Government"?
Name 2 of Trump's 2.0 Executive Orders that we discussed in class.
Another 400 points for each named after that.
What are:
9/5/25- Department of War
8/25/25 - End Cashless Bail
8/25/25 - Burning the American Flag
8/11/25 - Crime Emergency in DC
8/5/25 - 2028 Olympics
7/31/25 - Presidential Fitness Test
4/9/25- Showerheads
4/8/25 - Reinvigorating Coal Industry
3/27/25 - Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
3/20/25 - Improving Education...
1/20/25 - Unleashing American Energy
The (mainly) European alliance formed in the early 1950's as a check against Soviet expansion and aggression.
What is NATO?
Bonus: President Trump recently committed Europeans countries to pay a larger percentage of their ___________ to NATO.
The simple way, according to the Constitution, for a bill to become a law.
3 steps - in the right order:)
What is a bill must get a majority vote in the House of Representatives, a majority vote in the Senate, then it must be signed by the President of the U.S.?
The most powerful of the 3 branches of our Federal Government.
TRICK QUESTION!!
NONE ARE MORE POWERFUL -
CHECKS AND BALANCES:)
The practice or policy of favoring individuals belonging to groups known to have been discriminated against previously.
What is Affirmative Action?
What President Trump is trying to negotiate with each country in regards to tariffs.
What are "Reciprocal" tariffs?
Government retirement system.
What is Social Security?
Bonus: Under which President was Social Security started?
Name as many historic Executive Orders as you can. Worth 500 points each.
Give the Executive Order AND the President who issued the order.
What are:
Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln
WW2 Internment Camps by FDR
Desegregate the Military by Truman
No more gender discrimination in the workplace by LBJ
The conflict in Gaza is part of a long period of contention and war between these 2 groups of people.
What is Jewish Israel and Islamic Palestine?
Bonus: What is the name of the elected "Terrorist" group in charge of Gaza?
The Trump administration is challenging a long standing interpretation of the 14th amendment in regards to this.
What is "Birth Right citizenship"?
The body or group that holds ULTIMATE power in the United States of America.
What is the people?
The place on the simple political spectrum where most Americans are and why.
What is Most people are somewhere in the middle, moderate, of the political spectrum because the middle is the sum of the overall political beliefs of Americans at any given time?
Government funded Healthcare for Americans aged 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
Bonus: The government funded healthcare for Americans who financially qualify (lower income)?
The political phrase used to describe the desire to get rid of the permanent bureaucracy or deep state in Washington D.C.
What is "Drain the Swamp"?
4 Answers, worth double.
The 4 ways to overturn an Executive Order.
What are:
Another Executive Order,
A Congressional Law,
A Supreme Court Decision,
An Amendment to the Constitution?