When?
The date the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
When was July 4, 1776?
Signs the bills to become laws.
Who is the President?
The capital of the United States.
What is Washington, DC?
The 2 Major Political parties in the US.
What are the Republican and Democratic Parties?
Two rights of everyone living in the US.
What is freedom of press, speech, assembly, petition the government, and religion, the right to bear arms?
The last day you can send in your Federal Income Tax form.
What is April 15th?
The President during World War I.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
These are two US Territories.
What is Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam?
We show loyalty to it when we say the Pledge of Allegiance.
What is the flag, the United States?
The number of amendments in the Constitution.
What is 27?
The age citizens can vote for President.
What is 18 years of age and older?
Becomes President if both the President and Vice President no longer serve.
Who is the Speaker of the House
The longest two rivers in the US.
What are the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers?
The definition of an "Amendment."
What is "a change in the Constitution" or "an addition to the Constitution"?
The number of voting members in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
Five National Holidays.
What are New Years Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas?
Two things Benjamin Franklin is famous for.
What is U.S. Diplomat, Oldest member of Constitutional Convention, 1st Postmaster General of US, wrote of "Poor Richard's Almanac", started first free libraries?
The three countries that the US fought in WWII.
What are Japan, Germany and Italy?
The Constitution does these three things. Name 1
What is 1) sets up the government; 2) defines the government and 3) protects basic rights of Americans?
An amendment to the Constitution about who can vote.
What is: 1) citizens 18 + older; 2) don't have to pay a poll tax to vote; 3) any citizen can vote (women and men); and 4) a male citizen of any race can vote.
The year the Constitution was written.
What is 1787?
Two of the writers of the Federalist Papers.
Who are James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Publius?
The territory the US purchased from France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
Two powers of the Federal Government under the Constitution.
What is 1) to print money; 2) to declare war; 3) to create an army; and 4) to make treaties?
Two reasons the colonists fought the British.
What is 1) because of high taxes; 2) British army stayed in their houses; and 3) they didn't have self-govt.