U.12 Social Studies Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. To reject a bill and prevent it from becoming law.
  2. 3. system, Practice of hanging out government employees with the winning candidates supporters.
  3. 5. Son, A candidate for national office who has support mostly from his home state.
  4. 7. A method in election campaigns that uses gossip and lies to make an opponent look bad.
  5. 9. Greater than half of a total number of something.
Down
  1. 1. convention, A meeting in which representative members of a political party choose candidates to run for important elected offices.
  2. 4. The largest number of something, but less than a majority.
  3. 6. A system of government in which specialized tasks are carried out by appointed officials rather than by elected ones.
  4. 8. To move to another place.