Legislative Branch (State/Local)
This term describes a state legislature with only one lawmaking house, like Nebraska's.
What is unicameral?
This state official acts like a "mini-president," leading the state and commanding its National Guard.
Who is the governor?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States, except as punishment for a crime.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This is the term for a group of people with common interests who organize to try to win elections.
What is a political party?
This is the group of people who officially elect the president, based on each state's popular vote.
What is the Electoral College?
In most states, this official leads the legislature and serves as the governor's backup.
Who is the Lieutenant Governor?
This special power lets a governor reject just one part of a bill rather than the whole thing.
What is a line-item veto?
This amendment guarantees that anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen and that states can't deny people equal protection under the law.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
These two parties emerged after George Washington's presidency, even though Washington himself distrusted political parties.
What are the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
This is the largest unit of local government, run by a board that handles budgets, taxes, and zoning.
What is a county?
In this mayoral system, the mayor can veto decisions, choose department leaders, and build the city budget.
What is a strong-mayor system?
This amendment says the government cannot stop someone from voting because of their race.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
This political ideology is anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist and wants to dismantle economic hierarchies to address systemic issues.
What is leftist (leftism)?
These groups raise and spend money to help elect or defeat political candidates.
What are Political Action Committees (PACs)?
These local laws, passed by city councils, cover things like housing, transportation, and public safety.
What are ordinances?
In this local system, an appointed official — not an elected mayor — runs the city's day-to-day operations.
What is a council-manager system?
Despite the 15th Amendment, many states blocked non-white citizens from voting fairly until this 1965 federal law was passed.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
This political ideology generally favors small government, traditional family values, and a particular sense of morality.
What is conservative(ism)?
Bloody Sunday started in this city as folks wanted to march to Montgomery to demand fair voting rights.
What is Selma, Alabama
This man represents the Mississippi 2nd Congressional district which includes Jackson, the Delta, and Vicksburg
Who is Bennie Thompson
This is the minimum age, along with U.S. citizenship and 5 years of state residency, required to become a governor.
What is 30 (years old)?
This is the collective name given to the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, all passed just after the Civil War.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
This type of third party forms around one specific cause, unlike an ideological or splinter party.
What is a single-issue party?
This type of election lets voters choose which candidate will represent their party in the general election.
What is a primary?