Discovery
Key persons
The Declaration
The Constitution
Amendments
100
The most famous explorer, who discovered America in the 15th Century?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
A so-called "Father" who had an important part in creating the government in the US.
What is a Founding Father
100
Another word for the "introduction" of the Declaration of Independence.
What is "preamble"?
100
The American "grundlov".
What is the Constitution of the United States of America?
100
The name for the first ten amendments to the US Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
The location of the islands on which Columbus landed.
What is the Caribbean Sea?
200
The main writer of The Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
A right which cannot be taken away from you.
What is an unalienable right?
200
Another word for "freedom" used in the Constitution.
What is "Liberty"?
200
The Amendment which states that the American people have a right to defend themselves by the use of weapons.
What is the Second Amendment?
300
The number of original American colonies.
What is the number "13"?
300
The author of the pamphlet "Common Sense" (one of the documents which inspired the people in the colonies to fight for independence).
Who i Thomas Paine?
300
The national holiday which celebrates the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
What is Indenpendence Day?
300
The year in which the Constitution came into force.
What is 1789.
300
The expression used in the Second Amendment for saying "carry weapons".
What is the expression "bear arms"?
400
The first permanent English colony established in 1609.
What was Jamestown, Virginia
400
The third president of the United States of America.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
400
The British king to whom the Declaration of Independence was addressed.
Who was King George III.
400
The first three words in the Constitution of the United States of America.
What are the words "we the people"?
400
The word means "to make a formal request to somebody in authority" (the word is used in the First Amendment).
What does the word "petition" mean?
500
The explorer after whom the two American continents were named.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci
500
The first president of the United States, still featured on one-dollar bills.
Who was George Washington?
500
Three unalienable rights mentioned in the Declaration of Independence.
What are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
500
The city in which the Constitution was signed.
What is Philadelphia?
500
The key word in the First Amendment.
What is "freedom"?
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