Symbols & Holidays
These are three national U.S. holidays.
What are:
• New Year’s Day
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• Presidents Day (Washington’s Birthday)
• Memorial Day
• Juneteenth
• Independence Day
• Labor Day
• Columbus Day
• Veterans Day
• Thanksgiving Day
• Christmas Day
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This major event happened on September 11th, 2001 in the United States.
What is:
• Terrorists attacked the United States
• Terrorists took over two planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York City
• Terrorists took over a plane and crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia
• Terrorists took over a plane originally aimed at Washington, D.C., and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania
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This is who lived in America before the Europeans arrived.
Who are:
• American Indians
• Native Americans
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These people elect U.S. Senators.
Who are citizens from their state?
this is the supreme law of the land
what is the constitution?
This is the capital of the United States.
What is Washington, D.C ?
This is one of many things Martin Luther King Jr. is famous for.
What is:
• Fought for civil rights
• Worked for equality for all Americans
• Worked to ensure that people would “not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character”
One of many things Thomas Jefferson is famous for.
What is:
• Writer of the Declaration of Independence
• Third president of the United States
• Doubled the size of the United States (Louisiana Purchase)
• First Secretary of State
• Founded the University of Virginia
• Writer of the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom
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These people elect members of the House of Representatives.
Who are citizens from their (congressional) district?
this is how changes are made to the united states constitution
what are amendments?
This is why the flag has 50 stars.
What is:
• (Because there is) one star for each state
• (Because) each star represents a state
• (Because there are) 50 states
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This person was president during the Great Depression and World War II.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
This is one reason why the Americans declared independence from Britain.
What is/are:
High taxes
• Taxation without representation
• British soldiers stayed in Americans’ houses (boarding, quartering)
• They did not have self-government
• Boston Massacre
• Boston Tea Party (Tea Act)
• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Townshend Acts
• Intolerable (Coercive) Acts
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This is why U.S. representatives serve shorter terms than U.S. senators.
What is to more closely follow public opinion?
this is the economic system of the united states
What is:
• Capitalism
• Free market economy
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This is what Memorial Day is.
What is a holiday to honor soldiers who died in military service?
During the Cold War, this was one main concern of the United States.
What is:
• Communism
• Nuclear war
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This is one of many important events in the American Revolution.
What is
• (Battle of) Bunker Hill • Declaration of Independence • Washington Crossing the Delaware (Battle of Trenton) • (Battle of) Saratoga • Valley Forge (Encampment) • (Battle of) Yorktown (British surrender at Yorktown)
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This is how long Supreme Court justices serve.
What is:
• (For) life
• Lifetime appointment
• (Until) retirement
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this is what the rule of law is
What is:
• Everyone must follow the law.
• Leaders must obey the law.
• Government must obey the law.
• No one is above the law.
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This is what the nation’s first motto, “E Pluribus Unum”, means.
What is:
• Out of many, one
• We all become one
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This is when all women got the right to vote.
When is:
• 1920
• After World War I
• (With the) 19th Amendment
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One of many things James Madison is famous for.
What is:
• “Father of the Constitution”
• Fourth president of the United States
• President during the War of 1812
• One of the writers of the Federalist Papers
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The current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Who is [John [G.]] Roberts[, Jr.]?
this is why the declaration of independence is important
what is:
• It says America is free from British control.
• It says all people are created equal.
• It identifies inherent rights.
• It identifies individual freedoms
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