Civics
The branch of government that makes laws and includes Congress.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This continent is home to the largest country in the world, Russia.
What is Asia?
This document, adopted in 1776, announced that the American colonies were independent from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This global conflict from 1939 to 1945 involved the Allies and the Axis powers.
What is World War II?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
This river in Egypt was essential to ancient Egyptian civilization because it provided water, fertile soil, and transportation.
What is the Nile River?
This U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This desert in northern Africa is the largest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This wall built in 1961 divided East and West Berlin during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The system in which power is shared between the national government and the state governments.
What is federalism?
This 15th-century explorer completed the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth, though he died before it finished.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This 1929 event triggered the worst economic downturn in U.S. history, known as the Great Depression.
What is the Wall Street Crash of 1929?
This river, the longest in South America, flows through the world’s largest rainforest.
What is the Amazon River?
This Soviet leader introduced reforms called glasnost and perestroika in the 1980s.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This document preceded the U.S. Constitution and created a weak national government for the early United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This economic system is based on private ownership of businesses and the goal of making a profit.
What is capitalism?
This U.S. program, created under Franklin D. Roosevelt, helped millions of Americans get jobs during the Great Depression through government-funded projects.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
This mountain range stretches along the western coast of South America and includes the highest peak outside Asia.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This 1991 event marked the official collapse of the Soviet Union.
What is the Dissolution of the Soviet Union?
This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review in 1803.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This 1919 treaty officially ended World War I and placed heavy penalties on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This country is both the largest country in the world by land area and spans Europe and Asia.
What is Russia?
This 1989 event in Germany symbolized the weakening of communist control in Eastern Europe and the approaching end of the Cold War.
What is the Fall of the Berlin Wall?