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Which Great American Politician Are You Most Like?

Which great American politician are you most like?

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum created the Mount Rushmore in 1925, featuring George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Take this personality quiz to find out which one of...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 49 | Last updated: Nov 2, 2020

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What is your political party?

Whig

Republican

Democratic-Republican

American Government Quiz Unit 2

Whether you’re just trying to brush up on some politics around the globe or you’re an American trying to understand your country a little bit more, this American Government Quiz Unit 2 will determine whether or...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 49 | Last updated: Sep 11, 2018

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Those powers, expressed, implied, or inherent, granted to the National Government by the constitiution

Reserved powers

Exclusive powers

Concurrent powers

Delagated powers

Divisions of power

Government In America! Trivia Questions Quiz

Government in America! Trivia Questions Quiz

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 37 | Last updated: Dec 23, 2019

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A bill that is vetoed by the president:

Goes to a conference committee for revision

Must be rewritten by the representative who authored it

Will never become law

Goes to a federal court for approval of the veto

Can become law if Congress overrides the veto

American Government Exam 1 Review

Exam One of American Government Course.

Questions: 30 | Attempts: 37 | Last updated: Jun 25, 2019

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The principle of checks and balances is based on the idea that:

Leaders are the trustees of the people

A weak government is always preferable to a strong government

At the end of each congressional session, the Supreme Court reviews all acts of the Executive branch and Congress and may rule them unconstitutional

Power must be used to offset power

None of the above

American Government Final Exam

Questions: 80 | Attempts: 35 | Last updated: Jun 25, 2019

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Bureaucracy is the name given to

A large organization, structured hierarchically, that carries out specific functions.

Any organization that has major problems when attempting to accomplish its goals.

A group of people who work to enforce policies in a way that prevents quick results.

Any large branch of a government that has power to interpret laws.

Government organizations, but not corporate or university ones.

American Government--judiciary

American Government--Judiciary

Federal Judiciary

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 35 | Last updated: Jun 25, 2019

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The federal Circuit Court of Appeals cannot hear cases at the trial level because they lack ____________

A jury

Original jurisdiction

Appellate jurisdiction

A writ of certiorari

American Government Basics

This quiz is about the basic mechanics of the American Government

Questions: 17 | Attempts: 30 | Last updated: Jun 25, 2019

Sample Question
How many total electoral votes are at stake in a presidential election?

1000

500

535

275

Quiz On American Government: Trivia!

Quiz on American Government: Trivia!

How well do you know the American government? Would you be able to pass this quiz? The United States' federal government comprises three separate branches called legislative, executive, and judicial, and was established in...

Questions: 27 | Attempts: 23 | Last updated: Mar 5, 2021

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The pattern of voting in which the individual voter in a given election casts a ballot for one or more candidates of each major party?

Split Ticket Voting

Retrospective Voting

Prospective voting

Descriptive Voting

Affidavit Voting

American Government History

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 14 | Last updated: Jun 25, 2019

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After declaring independence, the first form of government the United States had was?

The Constitution

The Articles of Confederation

The Virginia Constitution

The Albany Plan of Union

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