American Government
The supreme law of the land
What is the Constitution?
When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
What is July 4, 1776?
What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States?
What is Atlantic Ocean?
The President of the United States now
What is Joe Biden?
What are two rights of everyone living in the United States?
What is: freedom of speech, freedom of expression
freedom of assembly
freedom to petition the government
freedom of religion
the right to bear arms?
The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution.
What is "We the People"?
What is one reason colonists came to America?
freedom
political liberty
religious freedom
economic opportunity
practice their religion
escape persecution
What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?
What is Pacific Ocean?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
What is Thomas Jefferson?
Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What are two powers of the federal government?
What is:
to print money
to declare war
to create an army
to make treaties?
The Constitution has this many amendments
What is: twenty-seven (27)?
When was the Constitution written?
What is 1787?
Why does the flag have 13 stripes?
because there were 13 original colonies
because the stripes represent the original colonies
One of your (WA) state’s U.S. Senators is
What is:
Maria Cantwell
Patty Murray
What are three Cabinet-level positions?
What is: Attorney General, Vice President, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Education, Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of State, Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of Homeland Security, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
This stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful
What is:
checks and balances
or
separation of powers
Name two wars fought by the United States in the 1800s.
War of 1812
Mexican-American War
Civil War
Spanish-American War
Name all the states that border Mexico.
California
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
The Chief Justice of the United States now
What is John Roberts?
Name two American Indian tribes in the United States
What is: Cheyenne, Arawak, Shawnee, Mohegan, Huron, Oneida, Lakota, Seminole, Crow, Teton, Hopi, Inuit, Cherokee, Navajo, Sioux, Chippewa, Choctaw, Pueblo, Apache, Iroquois, Creek, Blackfeet?
If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
What is the Speaker of the House?
Who was President during World War I?
What is Woodrow Wilson?
Name the two longest rivers in the United States.
What is:
Missouri
Mississippi?
Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?
Franklin Roosevelt
Who did the United States fight in World War II? (3 countries)
What is: Japan, Germany, and Italy
Name the six branches or parts of the government.
Congress
legislative
President
executive
the courts
judicial
During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?
Communism
Name six (6) states that border Canada.
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
Minnesota
North Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Alaska
The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
What is:
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
John Jay
Publius
What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
the Louisiana Territory