This former U.S. vice president won the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election but did not end up becoming president.
Who is Al Gore?
100
This is a draft of a law presented to a legislature for enactment.
What is a bill?
100
This is a unified body of individuals.
What is a community?
100
This is service as a juror in a legal proceeding.
What is jury duty?
100
This person's refusal to give up her seat led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who was Rosa Parks?
200
This type of election occurs before the general election and determines a party's official candidate.
What is a primary election?
200
In all court cases, charges against whom are always read aloud?
Who is the defendant?
200
Mentoring is a form of this.
What is volunteering?
200
This is the age in which all U.S. citizens are allowed to vote.
What is 18 years old?
200
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. urged the use of these during the Civil Rights Movement.
What are nonviolent protests?
300
Members of this include a group of people selected from each U.S. state to cast votes in presidential elections.
What is the electoral college?
300
This means to cancel a law.
What is a veto?
300
This type of organization does not distribute its surplus of funds to owners or shareholders.
What is a non-profit organization?
300
This is a group of people who share common interests for political action.
What is an interest group?
300
In 1952 these U.S. states permitted segregation.
What are Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Kansas?
400
This is a government in which people rule themselves.
What is a democracy?
400
This person must sign a bill for it to become a law at the state level.
Who is the governor?
400
This is an international, non-governmental, non-profit organization devoted to building simple, decent, and affordable housing for those in need.
What is Habitat for Humanity?
400
This is the failure to pay legally due taxes.
What is tax evasion?
400
This person was a Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers.
Who was Cesar Chavez?
500
This is the art and science of government.
What are politics?
500
This type of congressional committee is made up of both Senate and House members.
What is a conference committee?
500
This is a national non-profit organization consisting of citizen volunteers who are trained by law enforcement to be their "eyes and ears".
What is Citizens on Patrol?
500
This is the exclusion of people from a jury who may not be able to decide the case fairly.
What is voir dire?
500
These imposed strict qualifications on voters unless their grandfathers had been allowed to vote in the South to prevent African Americans from voting.