Crash Course: US Government and Politics

What is "a set of rules and institutions people set up so they work together as a unified society"?

• Government and Politics

• President and Presidential Power

• Siblings

• House of Representatives

Why do we study government and politics?

• To understand who has the power

• to become better citizens

• to understand we have no control

• to know if we want to move

What describes how power is distributed in a government?

• politics

• the executive branch

• the constitution

• the people

Who is automatically a citizen of the United States?

• anyone who visits here

• anyone who can take a test

• anyone born here

• anyone who wants to be

Is the USA a republic?

• yes

• no

What form of government has means that we elect representatives to govern us?

• republic government

• democratic government

What is one way can you participate in our government?

• voting

• sleeping

• watching movies

• reading books

Contacting your representatives, work for campaigns, raise money, displaying yard signs or bumper stickers as well as many other things are examples of what?

• being an active citizen

• being an inactive citizen

• being an uneducated citizen

• being an illegal citizen

What is the number 1 thing you can do to be a good citizen?

• be educated

• be ignorant

• ignore the politics

• vote for the guy with the nicest shoes