American Democracy
It's the supreme law of the land.
What is the Constitution?
This stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
What is separation of powers?
These are the two primary responsibilities exclusive to United States citizens.
What is serve on a jury AND vote in a federal election?
Colonists came to America for this primary reason.
What is freedom?
What is political liberty? What is religious freedom?
What is economic opportunity?
What is to practice their religion?
What is escape persecution?
This is one of the several major wars that the United States fought in the 1800s.
What was the Civil War?
What was the War of 1812?
What was the Mexican-American War?
What was the Spanish-American War?
These words are the first three words of the Constitution.
What is We the People?
These are the two parts of the U.S. Congress.
What is the Senate and House of Representatives?
This is one of the four amendments to the U.S. Constitution about who can vote.
What is citizens 18 and older can vote?
What is you don't have to pay to vote?
What is a male citizen of any race can vote?
What is both women and men can vote?
These group of people were living in America before the Europeans arrived.
What are American Indians?
What are Native Americans?
This was the central problem that led to the Civil War
What is slavery?
What is economic reasons?
What is states' rights?
A formal, permanent addition or change to the written text of a U.S. Constitution.
What is an amendment?
It is the branch or part of the government that makes federal laws.
What is Congress?
What is Senate and House of Representatives?
What is legislature?
We are showing loyalty to this when we say the Pledge of Allegiance.
What is the United States?
What is the flag?
Millions of them were transported across the Atlantic, taken to America, and sold as enslaved between the 16th and 19th centuries.
What is Africans?
What is people from Africa?
The United States purchased this territory from France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
These first ten amendments to the Constitution guarantee essential civil liberties and individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The House of Representatives is made up of ____ elected members, divided among the 50 states in proportion to their total population.
What is 435?
These are the two fundamental rights enjoyed by everyone living in the United States, regardless of citizenship status.
What is freedom of expression?
What is freedom of speech?
What is freedom of assembly?
What is freedom to petition the government?
What is freedom of religion?
What is the right to bear arms?
The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on this date.
What is July 4th, 1776?
Issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation declared this legally.
What is freed the slaves?
This is one of the five fundamental freedoms that are guaranteed by the First Amendment and prevent the government from punishing individuals for expressing their opinions, allowing them to voice their thoughts or protest without fear of censorship.
What is freedom of speech?
What is freedom of religion?
What is freedom of assembly?
What is freedom of press?
What is freedom of petition the government?
The ___________________ assumes the duties of the presidency if both the President and Vice President are simultaneously unable to serve.
Who is the Speaker of the House of Representatives?
When you become a citizen of the United States, this is one of the promises you make on the day of the naturalization ceremony.
What is give up loyalty to other countries?
What is defend the Constitution and laws of the United States?
What is obey the laws of the United States?
What is serve in the U.S. military?
What is serve the nation?
What is be loyal to the United States?
He was the main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
She is a central icon of the American women's suffrage movement.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?