Units 1-6
The Number of States when the United States Began.
What is 13?
The two major parties in the United States since the mid-1850's.
What is Democratic and Republican?
He said "Ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country".
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The law enforcement officer that is elected by voters in many places.
Two well known programs of the Federal government that provide assistance to the elderly.
What is Medicare and Social Security?
A precious right for Christians in America.
What is the right to worship God freely?
The freedoms the First Amendment guarantees.
What is Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Press?
The most important American ideal.
What is Faith in God?
The ministry that provides Christmas gifts to the children of adults who are in prison.
What is Angel Tree?
The economic event that led to the Federal Government increasingly providing assistance to individual Americans with material and financial needs.
What is The Great Depression?
The last 2 states to join the Union
What is Alaska and Hawaii?
The three levels of government in the United States.
What is National, State, and Local?
The largest Indian Reservation.
What is the Navajo Reservation?
A substance that asphalt is made from.
What is petrolium?
The first state to require children to go to school.
What is Massachussets?
The language where we get the words cookie, coleslaw, cruise, sketch and waffle.
What is Dutch?
The term for the arrangement by which the three branches work together so that no one branch is too powerful.
What is Checks and Balances?
Th group that sponsored presidential debates in 1976, 1980 and 1984.
What is the League of Women Voters?
The first weatherman in North America.
Who is John Campanius Holm?
The Mount Vernon Ladies Association was founded by this person.
Who is Ann Pamela Cunningham?
The 75 foot high room where the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights are displayed.
What is the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom?
Two men who signed the Delcaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution.
Who is Roger Sherman and Robert Morris?
The date the United States Army began.
What is June 14, 1775?
The year that the first official postage stamp went on sale.
What is 1947?
The name of the listing of places that the National Park Service recognizes as being worthy of preservation.
What is The National Register of Historic Places?