Who
Who wrote Common Sense?
Thomas Paine
What is civics?
Study of the government
Why did the colonists separate from Britain?
Taxation without representation, Salutary neglect, there's a lot of answers to this.
Where was the United States founded?
Philadelphia, Penn
How did they fix the Articles of Confederation?
By throwing it away and creating the US Constitution
Who came up with the idea of Democracy?
Ancient Greeks
What are 2 citizenship requirements?
Jury duty
Paying takes
Selective service
Why did the civil war occur?
Slavery
Where does the US get their ideas of civic duty from?
Ancient Rome
How does the US elect the president?
Electoral College
Who coined the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and property?
John Locke
What is the name given to the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
Reconstruction amendments
Why did the anti-federalists want a Bill of Rights added to the Constitution?
To protect the people from the government
Where did the nuclear missile crisis happen?
Cuba
How do companies and corporations influence legislation?
Lobbying
Who came up with the idea of checks and balances?
Montesquieu
What are 3 issues the Articles of Confederation have?
No executive branch, no judicial branch, unanimous approval for changes, no power to tax, etc...
Why did the Supreme Court overturn Plessy vs. Ferguson in the Brown vs. Board case?
14th Amendment
Where did the US's first proxy war (against the Soviets) occur?
Korea
How did the US defeat the Soviet Union?
They didn't, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991
Who wants to be the very best that no one ever was?
Ash Ketchum
What is a check and balance that each branch has over the other?
Judicial- judicial review
Legislative- confirms appointments, veto override
Executive- appoints, veto
Why did the US need the 24th amendment?
Because the more racist states were making people pay an extra tax to vote, making it impossible for them to vote. This mostly affected black people in the south.
What were the only 2 cities in world history that have had nuclear bombs used on them?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
How did the US plan to topple the newly founded communist regime in Cuba?
Bay of Pigs, they sent the CIA to Cuba in hopes to use espionage tactics to eliminate government officials.