The Governing of the United States:

• What is an amendment? Is the act of changing correcting the constitution 1789

• Why was the democratic system set up? the Fifteenth Amendment gave black Americans the ri
and the Nineteenth Amendment gave women the same right. Today all American citizens over th
• Name the three branches of the federal government.
The Executive,
The Legislature - the Congress, and
The Judiciary

• What are the main functions of the three branches?

The Executive proposes laws, appoints federal judges and senior officials. It is also respo
The Congress is made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives. This is where new f
federal taxes are set, and also, this is the only branch entitled to declare war on other c
The main function of the Judiciary is to make sure that the actions of the President and Co
the Constitution

• The two major political parties in the U.S are … Democratic and the Republican
.
• Name a few presidents. John F. Kennedy 1961 - 63 D
Lyndon B. Johnson 1963 - 69 D
Richard Nixon 1969 - 74 R
Gerald R. Ford 1974 - 77 R
James E. Carter 1977 - 81 D
Ronald Reagan 1981 - 89 R
George Bush 1989 - 92 R
• Say a few words about the presidential election system.
presidential campaign takes place every leap year candidates elected travel around the coun
American citizens vote, state by state, and the candidate who receives the majority of the
honeymoon' after the election, before he officially starts working on January 20th the foll
be elected for a second time and sit for two four-year periods, but no more.