What is the capital of the United States?
Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
American Indians ▪ Native Americans
What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States?
Terrorists attacked the United States
What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
The Louisiana Territory ▪ Louisiana
What is the supreme law of the land?
▪ the Constitution
Where is the Statue of Liberty?
New York (Harbor)
What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
▪ Africans ▪ people from Africa
Who was President during World War I?
Woodrow (Wilson)
Name the U.S. war between the North and the South
Civil War
What is an amendment?
a change (to the Constitution) ▪ an addition (to the Constitution)
Name one of the two longest rivers in the United States
Mississippi or Missouri
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.*
▪ World War I ▪ World War II ▪ Korean War ▪ Vietnam War ▪ (Persian) Gulf War
Name one problem that led to the Civil War.
slavery ▪ economic reasons ▪ states’ rights
What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?*
▪ speech ▪ religion ▪ assembly ▪ press ▪ petition the government
Name one state that borders Canada
Maine ▪ New Hampshire ▪ Vermont ▪ New York ▪ Pennsylvania ▪ Ohio ▪ Michigan ▪ Minnesota ▪ North Dakota ▪ Montana ▪ Idaho ▪ Washington ▪ Alaska
What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
The Constitution was written. ▪ The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.
During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?
Communism
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
▪ freed the slaves ▪ freed slaves in the Confederacy ▪ freed slaves in the Confederate states ▪ freed slaves in most Southern states
What does the Constitution do?
▪ sets up the government ▪ defines the government ▪ protects basic rights of Americans
Name one U.S. territory
Puerto Rico ▪ U.S. Virgin Islands ▪ American Samoa ▪ Northern Mariana Islands ▪ Guam
The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
(James) Madison ▪ (Alexander) Hamilton ▪ (John) Jay ▪ Publius
Who did the United States fight in World War II?
Japan, Germany, and Italy
What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?*
freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation) ▪ saved (or preserved) the Union ▪ led the United States during the Civil War
The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?
We the People