American Government
The supreme law of the land.
What is the Constitution?
One reason colonists came to America.
What is freedom? (Acceptable answers: political liberty, religious freedom, economic opportunity, escape persecution)
The capital of the United States.
What is Washington, D.C.?
One responsibility that is only for U.S. citizens.
What is serve on a jury? (Other acceptable answer: vote in a federal election)
One of the two longest rivers in the U.S.
What is the Mississippi River? (Other acceptable answer: the Missouri River)
The two parts of the U.S. Congress.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
The person who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Two national U.S. holidays.
What are Independence Day and Thanksgiving? (Other acceptable answers: New Year’s Day, MLK Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Christmas)
A right only for U.S. citizens.
What is the right to vote in a federal election? (Other acceptable answer: run for federal office)
The ocean on the East Coast of the U.S.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The person in charge of the executive branch.
Who is the President?
The document that freed slaves in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A state that borders Canada.
What is New York? (Other acceptable answers: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Alaska)
Two ways Americans can participate in democracy.
What are voting and joining a political party? (Other acceptable answers: help with a campaign, join a civic or community group, give an opinion to an elected official, run for office, write to a newspaper)
The ocean on the West Coast of the U.S.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Two rights listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
One important thing Abraham Lincoln did.
What is freed the slaves? (Other acceptable answers: saved the Union, led during the Civil War)
The 13 stripes in the U.S. flag represent this.
What are the 13 original colonies
The last day to send in federal income tax forms.
What is April 15?
A U.S. territory.
What is Puerto Rico? (Other acceptable answers: Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands)
The title of the person who serves as Commander in Chief of the military.
Who is the President?
The President during the Great Depression and World War II.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The location of the Statue of Liberty.
What is New York (Harbor) or Liberty Island?
The age when all men must register for the Selective Service.
What is 18-26
A state that borders Mexico.
What is Texas? (Other acceptable answers: California, Arizona, New Mexico)