U.S. Government & System
The U.S. government has three branches: executive, legislative, and this one.
What is the judicial branch?
This war was fought between the North and South regions of the United States.
What is the Civil War?
The United States has this number of time zones across the mainland.
What is four?
This U.S. currency is divided into 100 smaller units called cents.
What is the U.S. dollar?
This freedom allows people to express their opinions without fear.
What is freedom of speech?
This branch of government is responsible for making laws.
What is the legislative branch?
This year is when the United States declared independence.
What is 1776?
This major river forms part of the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
This company, founded by Bill Gates, is known for creating Windows software.
What is Microsoft?
This freedom allows people to choose and practice their religion.
What is freedom of religion?
This group of elected officials forms the U.S. Congress.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
This movement fought to end racial segregation and ensure equal rights in the 1950s and 60s.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This mountain range runs along the eastern United States.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This U.S. company created the iPhone.
What is Apple?
These first ten amendments to the Constitution are known by this name.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the maximum number of years a U.S. President can serve in office.
What is 8 years?
This event in 1941 led the U.S. to enter World War II after an attack on Pearl Harbor.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This region of the U.S. is known for technology companies like Apple and Google.
What is Silicon Valley (in California)?
This term describes new businesses started by entrepreneurs, often in tech.
What are startups?
This right allows U.S. citizens aged 18 and above to choose their leaders.
What is the right to vote?
This document outlines the structure of the U.S. government and is the supreme law of the land.
What is the Constitution?
This 1969 event made the U.S. the first country to land humans on the moon.
What is the Apollo 11 moon landing?
This is the largest freshwater lake in the United States by surface area.
What is Lake Superior?
This U.S. space agency is responsible for space exploration and missions like Apollo.
What is NASA?
This principle means that no one, including leaders, is above the law.
What is the rule of law?