What is 1) The legislative branch (Congress).
2) The executive branch (the President).
3) The judicial branch (the court system)
100
There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote
What is 1) Citizens eighteen (18) and older can vote.
2) You don’t have to pay (a poll tax) to vote.3) Any citizen (both men and women) can vote.
4) A male citizen of any race can vote.
100
reasons colonists came to the United States
What is 1) Freedom
2) Political liberty
3) Religious freedom
4) Economic opportunity5) Escape persecution
100
territory the United States buy from France in 1803
What is The Louisiana Territory (present day Louisiana)
200
Constitution do
What is Sets up the government.
Defines the government.
Protects basic rights of Americans.
200
prevents one branch of government from becoming too powerful
What is 1) Checks and balances
2) The separation of powers
200
responsibilities reserved for United States citizens
What is 1) To serve on a jury.
2) To vote. 3) To apply for a federal job.
4) To vote.
5) To run for office .
6) To carry a U.S. passport
200
lived in America before the Europeans arrived
What is Native Americans or American Indians
200
war fought by the United States in the 1800s
What is 1) War of 1812
2) Mexican-American War
3) Civil War
4) Spanish-American War
300
amendment
What is a change to the Constitution.
An addition to the Constitution
300
in charge of the executive branch
What is the president
300
freedoms reserved for everyone living in the United States
What is 1) Freedom of expression
2) Freedom of speech
3) Freedom of peaceable assembly
4) Freedom to petition the government
5) Freedom of worship
6) The right to bear arms
300
group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves
What is Africans
300
Name the U.S. war between the North and South
What is The Civil War
400
the first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is The Bill of Rights
400
makes federal laws
What is the legislative branch, or Congress
400
we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance
What is The United States or the United States flag
400
the reason why the colonists fight the British
What is 1) Because of high taxes (taxation without representation)
2) Because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering, marshal
law)
3) Because they didn’t have self-government
400
Name one problem that led to the Civil War
What is 1) Slavery
2) Economic Reasons
3) State Rights
500
amendments the Constitution have
What is 27
500
Name your U.S. representatives
What is Residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or resident
Commissioners may provide the name of that Delegate or Commissioner. Also
acceptable is any statement that the territory has no (voting) Representatives in
Congress.
500
promise you make when you become a United States citizen
What is 1) To give up loyalty to other countries
2) To defend the Constitution and laws of the United States
3) To obey the laws of the United States
4) To serve in the U.S. military (if necessary)
5) To serve (do important work for) the nation (if necessary)
6) To be loyal to the United States
500
o wrote the Declaration of Independence
What is Thomas Jefferson
500
important thing that Abraham Lincoln did
What is 1) He freed the slaves.
2) He preserved the Union.
3) He led the United States during the Civil War.