CIVIC LITERACY UPDATED COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Commander-in-Chief - ✔✔The role of the president as the supreme commander of
the armed forces of the United States.
✔✔Governor - ✔✔highest ranking member of a state's executive branch
✔✔Reserved powers - ✔✔powers reserved for the states; examples: creating and
maintaining an education system, creating local governments
✔✔Veto power - ✔✔presidential power to stop a bill from becoming a law by rejecting it
✔✔impeachment - ✔✔a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in
office
✔✔presidential succession - ✔✔the order in which officials fill the office of president in
case of a vacancy-1. Vice President, 2. Speaker of the House of Representatives, 3.
President of the Senate Pro Tempore, ...
✔✔U.S. Supreme Court - ✔✔9 justices nominated by President, confirmed by Senate;
highest court in the nation; hears only appeals; interprets Constitutional law
, ✔✔Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts - ✔✔A series of acts passed by the government in
response to the Boston Tea Party. They caused outrage, as the colonists viewed the
acts as a violation of their rights. This led to the creation of the First Continental
Congress and the Revolutionary War.
✔✔Boston Tea Party - ✔✔demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who raided three
British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor;
organized as a protest against taxes on tea.
✔✔Amendment 9 - ✔✔People's rights are not limited to those in the Constitution.
✔✔Amendment 10 - ✔✔Amendment that states some powers reserved to the states
✔✔Amendment 11 - ✔✔Amendment that states cases in which a state was sued
without the consent from jurisdiction of federal government must be removed
✔✔Amendment 12 - ✔✔Amendment that states presidential electors have to vote for
president and vice president seperately
✔✔Amendment 13 - ✔✔No person under the jurisdiction of the US can be a slave and
congress can pass legislation implementing the abolition of slavery
✔✔Amendment 14 - ✔✔Amendment that gives rights of citizens: 1)all persons born in
the united states are granted citizenship, 2) no state can deny any person the equal
protection of the laws, 3)no state can deny any person life, liberty, property without due
process of law
✔✔Amendment 15 - ✔✔Amendment that doesn't allow you to deny a vote because of
race, color, previous condition of servitude
✔✔Amendment 16 - ✔✔Amendment that states congress has the right to levy an
income tax
✔✔Amendment 17 - ✔✔Amendment that gives the right to elect US senators by popular
vote
✔✔Amendment 18 - ✔✔Congress has the right to prohibit the manufacture, sale and
transportatin of liquor
✔✔Amendment 19 - ✔✔Amendment that states all women have the right to vote
✔✔Amendment 20 - ✔✔Presidential Inauguration Day is Jan. 20 and Jan. 3 is the date
for the new congress opening. If the president dies before swearing in, the Vice
President elect becomes president
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Commander-in-Chief - ✔✔The role of the president as the supreme commander of
the armed forces of the United States.
✔✔Governor - ✔✔highest ranking member of a state's executive branch
✔✔Reserved powers - ✔✔powers reserved for the states; examples: creating and
maintaining an education system, creating local governments
✔✔Veto power - ✔✔presidential power to stop a bill from becoming a law by rejecting it
✔✔impeachment - ✔✔a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in
office
✔✔presidential succession - ✔✔the order in which officials fill the office of president in
case of a vacancy-1. Vice President, 2. Speaker of the House of Representatives, 3.
President of the Senate Pro Tempore, ...
✔✔U.S. Supreme Court - ✔✔9 justices nominated by President, confirmed by Senate;
highest court in the nation; hears only appeals; interprets Constitutional law
, ✔✔Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts - ✔✔A series of acts passed by the government in
response to the Boston Tea Party. They caused outrage, as the colonists viewed the
acts as a violation of their rights. This led to the creation of the First Continental
Congress and the Revolutionary War.
✔✔Boston Tea Party - ✔✔demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who raided three
British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor;
organized as a protest against taxes on tea.
✔✔Amendment 9 - ✔✔People's rights are not limited to those in the Constitution.
✔✔Amendment 10 - ✔✔Amendment that states some powers reserved to the states
✔✔Amendment 11 - ✔✔Amendment that states cases in which a state was sued
without the consent from jurisdiction of federal government must be removed
✔✔Amendment 12 - ✔✔Amendment that states presidential electors have to vote for
president and vice president seperately
✔✔Amendment 13 - ✔✔No person under the jurisdiction of the US can be a slave and
congress can pass legislation implementing the abolition of slavery
✔✔Amendment 14 - ✔✔Amendment that gives rights of citizens: 1)all persons born in
the united states are granted citizenship, 2) no state can deny any person the equal
protection of the laws, 3)no state can deny any person life, liberty, property without due
process of law
✔✔Amendment 15 - ✔✔Amendment that doesn't allow you to deny a vote because of
race, color, previous condition of servitude
✔✔Amendment 16 - ✔✔Amendment that states congress has the right to levy an
income tax
✔✔Amendment 17 - ✔✔Amendment that gives the right to elect US senators by popular
vote
✔✔Amendment 18 - ✔✔Congress has the right to prohibit the manufacture, sale and
transportatin of liquor
✔✔Amendment 19 - ✔✔Amendment that states all women have the right to vote
✔✔Amendment 20 - ✔✔Presidential Inauguration Day is Jan. 20 and Jan. 3 is the date
for the new congress opening. If the president dies before swearing in, the Vice
President elect becomes president
