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| Chapter 10: Campaigns and Elections |
| What Government Does and Why It Matters |
| Below are ten questions selected from a literacy test given to African Americans by a southern state during the time of segregation. |
| 1. A U.S. senator elected at the general election in November takes office the following year on what date? ____________ |
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| 2. The Constitution limits the size of the District of Columbia to ____________. |
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| 3. The electoral vote for president is counted in the presence of two bodies. Name them. 1: ____________ |
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| 3b. 2: ____________ |
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| 4. Of the original thirteen states, the one with the largest representation in the First Congress was ____________. |
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| 5. If election of the president becomes the duty of the U.S. House of Representatives and it fails to act, who becomes president and when? |
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| 6. If a state is party to a case, the Constitution provides that original jurisdiction shall be in ____________. |
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| 7. If an effort to impeach the president of the United States is made, who presides at the trial? ____________ |
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| 8. When the Constitution was approved by the original colonies, how many states had to ratify it in order for it to be in effect? ____________ |
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| 9. Persons opposed to swearing in an oath may say instead, “I solemnly ____________.” |
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| 10. If it were proposed to join Alabama and Mississippi to form one state, what groups would have to vote approval in order for this to be done? |
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