Interesting facts about states
This animal is depicted on the California state flag.
What is a bear?
What state starts with an A but does not end with one?
What is Arkansas?
What is the capital of California?
What is Sacramento?
This term describes a political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government with authority to make and enforce laws.
What is a state?
Governments derive their authority from two main sources: their legitimacy and this—its power to enforce laws through police, military, or courts.
What is coercive force?
The scissortail is the state bird of this state.
What is Oklahoma?
What states share a border with Oklahoma?
What is Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado and NM?
What is the capital of South Carolina?
What is Columbia?
A state with a general political and social agreement among its people has this, making it more stable.
What is a consensus?
According to Abraham Lincoln, government should only do for people what they cannot do for themselves. This describes which main purpose of government?
What is providing public services?
This is the very center of the United States.
What is Belle Fourche SD?
4 states that border Mexico?
What is Texas, Arizona, NM, and California?
What is the Capital of New York?
What is Albany?
This essential feature of a state means it has complete authority to make its own laws and conduct its own foreign policy.
What is sovereignty?
This English philosopher believed people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property—and that they can overthrow a government that fails to protect those rights.
Who is John Locke?
This state has had a law that makes it illegal for motorists to pump their own gas — only attendants may dispense fuel. It remains the only U.S. state with that restriction.
What is New Jersey?
How many states make up the "Midwest" of the US?
What is 12?
What is the capital of Maryland?
What is Annapolis?
This theory claims the state developed naturally out of the early family structure.
What is the evolutionary theory?
According to the text, governments serve four main purposes: maintaining social order, providing public services, providing national security, and doing this.
What is making economic decisions?
This state was the very first to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
What is Delaware?
How many states are considered the "Old South"?
What is 6?
What is the capital of Missouri?
What is Jefferson City?
This theory states that rulers were chosen by God or were descendants of gods, giving them divine authority.
What is the divine right theory?
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke both contributed to this theory, which states that people give up certain freedoms to a government in exchange for order and protection.
What is the social contract theory?