What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
What is speech, religion, assembly, press, or petition the government
100
What are the two major political parties in the United States?
What is Democratic and Republican
100
What is one reason colonists came to America?
What is freedom, political liberty, religious freedom, economic opportunity, practice their religion, or escape persecution
100
What is the capital of the United States?
What is Washington, D.C.
100
What is the political party of the current president of the United States?
Democratic
200
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
What is the Bill of Rights
200
Who is the current vice president of the United States?
What is Joe Biden
200
During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?
What is Communism
200
What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?
What is the Pacific Ocean
200
Name one U.S. president that was assassinated.
What is Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, John F. Kennedy
300
There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them.
What is Citizens eighteen (18) and older (can vote).
You don’t have to pay (a poll tax) to vote.
Any citizen can vote. (Women and men can vote.)
A male citizen of any race (can vote).
300
What are the two parts of congress?
What is the Senate and the House (of Representatives)
300
There were 13 original states. Name three.
What is New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
300
Name one state that borders Canada.
What is Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Alaska
300
Who was president during the Mexican American War?
What is James K. Polk
400
What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?
What is life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
400
What does the judicial branch do?
What is reviews laws, explains laws, resolves disputes, decides if a law goes against the Constitution
400
The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
What is (James) Madison
(Alexander) Hamilton
(John) Jay
Publius
400
Name one U.S. territory.
What is Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam
400
Who was the first president to be impeached?
What is Andrew Johnson
500
Which amendment protects you from double jeopardy?
What is the fifth amendment
500
Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states?
What is provide schooling and education, provide protection (police), provide safety (fire departments), give a driver’s license, approve zoning and land use
500
Name three American Indian tribes in the United States.
What is Cherokee
Navajo
Sioux
Chippewa
Choctaw
Pueblo
Apache
Iroquois
Creek
Blackfeet
Seminole
Cheyenne
Arawak
Shawnee
Mohegan
Huron
Oneida
Lakota
Crow
Teton
Hopi
Inuit
500
What are the names of the five Great Lakes?
What is Superior, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Erie