What does the Constitution do?
1/10
What is the supreme law of the land?
2/10
The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?
3/10
What is the “rule of law”?
4/10
Name one branch or part of the government.
5/10
What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
6/10
Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of the federal government?
7/10
Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states?
8/10
Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states?
9/10
What is the economic system in the United States?
10/10
When was the Constitution written?
1/6
What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
2/6
The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
3/6
What is an amendment?
4/6
How many amendments does the Constitution have?
5/6
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
6/6
Who makes federal laws?
1/8
What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?
2/8
How many U.S. Senators are there?
3/8
We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?
4/8
Who does a U.S. Senator represent?
5/8
The House of Representatives has how many voting members?
6/8
We elect a U.S. Representative for how many years?
7/8
Why do some states have more Representatives than other states?
8/8
Who is in charge of the executive branch?
1/8
Who is the Commander in Chief of the military?
2/8
Who signs bills to become laws?
3/8
Who vetoes bills?
4/8
If the President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
5/8
If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
6/8
What does the President’s Cabinet do?
7/8
What are two Cabinet-level positions?
8/8
Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
1/8
Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.
2/8
What is one reason colonists came to America?
3/8
There were 13 original states. Name three.
4/8
What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
5/8
What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
6/8
Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.
7/8
Where is the Statue of Liberty?
8/8
Name one of the two longest rivers in the United States.
1/7
What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?
2/7
What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States?
3/7
Name one U.S. territory.
4/7
Name one state that borders Canada.
5/7
Name one state that borders Mexico.
6/7
What is the capital of the United States?
7/7
Why did the colonists fight the British?
1/8
What did the Declaration of Independence do?
2/8
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
3/8
When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
4/8
When do we celebrate Independence Day?
5/8
What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?
6/8
Who was the first President?
7/8
Who is the “Father of Our Country”?
8/8
Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.
1/8
What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
2/8
Name one problem that led to the Civil War.
3/8
The Revolutionary War
Name the U.S. war between the North and the South
4/8
What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?
5/8
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
6/8
What did Susan B. Anthony do?
7/8
What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
8/8
Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
1/9
Who was President during World War I?
2/9
Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?
3/9
Who did the United States fight in World War II?
4/9
Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?
5/9
During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?
6/9
What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
7/9
What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?*
8/9
What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States?
9/9
What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?
1/8
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
2/8
Who is the “Father of Our Country”?
3/8
Who was the first President?
4/8
The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
5/8
What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?
6/8
What did Susan B. Anthony do?
7/8
What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?
8/8
What is one reason colonists came to America?
1/8
What is freedom of religion?
2/8
What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?
3/8
What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
4/8
What are two rights of everyone living in the United States?
5/8
Name one right only for United States citizens.
6/8
What are two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy?
7/8
What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
8/8
How old do citizens have to be to vote for President?
1/5
There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them.
2/5
What are the two major political parties in the United States?
3/5
We elect a President for how many years?
4/5
In what month do we vote for President?
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