Term 1

Question 1

Congress

Answer 1

a formal meeting or assembly of representatives for the discussion, arrangement, or promotion of some matter of common interest.

Question 2

Executive Branch

Answer 2

the branch of government charged with the execution and enforcement of laws and policies and the administration of public affairs; the executive.

Question 3

Legislative Branch

Answer 3

The United States Congress is part of the legislative branch and is made up of two houses – the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Question 4

Judicial Branch

Answer 4

the branch of government charged with the interpretation of laws and the administration of justice; the judiciary.

Question 5

President

Answer 5

an officer appointed or elected to preside over an organized body of persons.

Question 6

Vice-President

Answer 6

an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president’s absence.

Question 7

census

Answer 7

an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.

Question 8

Supreme Court

Answer 8

the highest court of the U.S.

Question 9

House of Representatives

Answer 9

the lower legislative branch in many national and state bicameral governing bodies, as in the United States, Mexico, and Japan.

Question 10

Senate

Answer 10

an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.

Question 11

liberalism

Answer 11

the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.

Question 12

conservatism

Answer 12

the disposition to preserve or restore what is established and traditional and to limit change.

Question 13

checks and balances

Answer 13

limits imposed on all branches of a government by vesting in each branch the right to amend or void those acts of another that fall within its purview.

Question 14

democracy

Answer 14

government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.

Question 15

politics

Answer 15

the practice or profession of conducting political affairs.

Question 16

Republican

Answer 16

a person who favors a republican form of government.

Question 17

Democrat

Answer 17

an advocate of democracy.

Question 18

election

Answer 18

the selection of a person or persons for office by vote.

Question 19

voting rights

Answer 19

A law passed at the time of the civil rights movement.

Question 20

Electoral College

Answer 20

a body of electors chosen by the voters in each state to elect the president and vice president of the U.S.

Question 21

Constitution

Answer 21

the system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, or the like, is governed.

Question 22

constitutional

Answer 22

of or relating to the constitution of a state, organization, etc.

Question 23

veto

Answer 23

the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.