Constitution
This is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The two houses that collectively make up the Legislative Branch, or Congress.
What are the House of Representatives and Senate?
Federal judges and Supreme Court justices hold their offices during good behavior, which usually means for this length of time.
What is for life?
In this role, the President holds supreme authority over all branches of the U.S. armed forces.
What is the commander in chief?
This woman's refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 sparked a famous year-long boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This post-1960s constitutional amendment clarifies the process for filling a vacancy in the Vice Presidency and establishes the procedures for dealing with presidential disability.
What is the 25th Amendment?
The five core freedoms protected by this amendment are religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
This term describes the two-chamber structure of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is Bicameral?
The official title of the justice who presides over the Supreme Court and administers the oath of office to the President.
Who is the Chief Justice?
This group of advisors, made up of the heads of 15 executive departments like the Department of Defense, is chosen by the President.
What is the Cabinet?
This massive community action, lasting 381 days, successfully challenged segregated public transit in Montgomery, Alabama.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This Amendment guarantees that an individual cannot be compelled to be a witness against themselves, also known as protection against self-incrimination.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
A member of the House of Representatives serves a term of this many years.
The 1803 Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison established this foundational power of the Judicial Branch over laws and executive actions.
What is judicial review?
The 22nd Amendment limits a person to this maximum number of elected terms as President.
What is two terms?
This 1954 Supreme Court decision unanimously ruled that segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The Eighth Amendment prohibits both excessive fines and this harsh type of punishment.
What is "cruel and unusual"?
The presiding officer of the House of Representatives, and second in line to the presidency.
Name and describe any supreme court case we have learned about in class.
(Answers will vary)
This is the name for a formal rule or directive issued by the President that manages operations of the federal government and has the force of law.
What are executive orders?
The name for the state and local laws in the Southern U.S. that enforced racial separation and discrimination from the late 19th century.
What were Jim Crow laws?
This amendment gave voting rights to all men.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
The process by which the 435 seats in the House are divided among the states based on population.
What is apportionment?
DAILY DOUBLE
The President nominates federal judges, but they must be approved by a simple majority vote in this chamber of Congress.
What is the Senate?
(NOT the House of Representatives)
Under the 25th Amendment, this person is next in line to the presidency after the Vice President.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
The name given to the nine African American students who integrated Central High School in Arkansas in 1957.
Who were the "Little Rock Nine"?
This amendment reserves powers not delegated to the federal government to the states or to the people.
What is the tenth Amendment?
This nickname is given to the necessary and proper clause, which expands the legislative power of Congress beyond its explicitly listed powers.
What is the "elastic clause"?
A justice who disagrees with the majority decision will write this type of opinion, offering their own reasoning.
What is a dissenting opinion?
The constitutional power of the President to grant a legal forgiveness for a federal crime to a single individual, often done near the end of a term.
What is a pardon/commutation/amnesty?
This constitutional amendment, ratified in 1964, outlawed the use of poll taxes in federal elections.
What is the Twenty Fourth Amendment?
Prior to the Seventeenth Amendment, this is who chose our senators.
What are the state legislatures?
This person is the current House minority leader.
Who is Hakeem Jeffries?
A court's legal authority to hear and decide a case, which can be original or appellate, is known by this term.
What is jurisdiction?
There have been fifteen vice presidents who would go on to become president in their own right. Name 4 of them.
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Martin Van Buren
John Tyler
Millard Fillmore
Andrew Johnson
Chester Arthur
Theodore Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
Harry Truman
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
George H.W. Bush
Joe Biden
This Latin term refers to segregation that exists by custom and tradition throughout society, rather than being required by law.
What is de facto segregation?