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42 Cards in this Set
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First prime minister of Israel. |
David Ben-Gurion |
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Lost the race for the presidency three times but won the Scopes Monkey Trial. |
Williams Jennings Bryan |
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President of the Confederacy. |
Jefferson Davis |
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Lord protector of England 1653 through 1658. |
Oliver Cromwell |
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First signer of the Declaration of Independence. |
John Hancock |
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Wrote Mein Kampf; was the dictator of Germany. |
Adolf Hitler |
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Iranian Ayatollah that directed the overthrow of the Shuh in 1979. |
Ruholiah Khomeini |
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Soviet leader 1917 through 1924 after Bolshevik Revolution. |
Vladimir Lenin |
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Vice-President under Lyndon Johnson known as the happy warrior. |
Hubert Humphrey |
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Mongolian emperor which founded China's Yuan dynasty. |
Kublai Khan |
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New York governor which two times lost the race for presidency against Roosevelt and Truman. |
Thomas E. Dewey |
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What is the first paragraph of the Constitution called? |
preamble |
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How many branches of government are there? |
three |
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What are the first ten amendments of the Constitution called? |
Bill of Rights |
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Which branch of government includes the President? |
Executive |
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Which branch of government includes the Congress? |
Legislature |
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When the President refuses to sign a bill passed by Congress, the bill is said to have been what? |
Vetoed |
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The practice of delaying a vote in Congress by speech making is what? |
filibustering |
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How long is a Senator's term? |
six years |
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What is the term for a legislature that has two houses such as our Congress? |
bicameral |
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What is the official counting of population done every ten years? |
census |
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Who presides over the Senate? |
Vice-President |
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the branch of the government that makes the laws |
legislative |
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the branch of the government that administers policies |
executive |
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the branch of the government that involves the courts |
judicial |
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in order of presidential succession, he succeeds the Vice-President |
Speaker of the House |
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Which house of Congress has 100 members? |
the Senate |
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Ad addition or amendment to a major bill which usually has little to do with the main bill |
rider |
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How long is the term of a member of the House of Representatives? |
2 years |
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the first formal governing document of the United States |
Articles of Confederation |
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this number is a quorum in the Senate |
51 |
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private agencies such as Gallup and Roper are famous for these measures of opinion |
polls |
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GOP refers to which party? |
Republican |
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How is Tenzin Gyatso better known?
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The Dali Lama
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How was Nguyen that Tan better known?
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Ho Chi Minh
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Who assassinated President McKinley?
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Leon Czolgosz
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In 1990 who faced banners saying Goodbye Pineapple Face?
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Manuel Noriega |
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Which president decided to build a naval station at Pearl Harbor?
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William Taft |
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Who was the first president to be elected for a third four-year term?
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Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Which President gave the go-ahead to build an H Bomb?
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Truman |
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Which president was responsible for setting up the Manhattan Project?
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Roosevelt |
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Who took part in the first televised debate between two presidential candidates?
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Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy |
