Geography
American History
Civics and Government
Reading and Writing
Grammar
100
This continent contains the country of Spain.
What is Europe
100
July 4, 1776
What is the day the American Declaration of Independence was signed?
100
During the Age of Enlightenment, the new ideas about government and individual rights from thinkers like Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu and Rousseau influenced these two important U.S. documents.
What is the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States?
100
Your main idea, known as a thesis statement in an essay, must have these three items.
What is a topic, statement of position, and 3 supporting details?
100
This figure of speech names the person, place, thing, or idea being written about.
What is a Noun?
200
This continent shares the same land mass with Europe; they are separated by the Ural Mountain Range
What is Asia
200
This founding father is best known as "First in war. First in peace. First in the hearts of his countrymen.
Who is George Washington?
200
The U.S. government is divided into these three equal branches. Each of these branches contains powers that can be used to "check and balance" the powers of the other two branches.
What is the Executive Branch, Legislative Branch, and Judicial Branch?
200
Your thesis statement serves as road map for your readers so they will know what your essay is about and is usually the last sentence in the introductory paragraph. Likewise, this sentence allows your readers to know what topic the paragraph will cover and is usually the first sentence in the paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
200
You do this for a noun ending in "f" or "fe" to make it plural.
What is "drop the "f(e)" and add "ves"?
300
This imaginary line runs through 14 countries spread over three continents and it divides the earth into two different hemispheres (the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere).
What is the equator?
300
On August 26, 1920, three-quarters of the state legislature ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, which allowed for ....
What is the right of American women to vote?
300
While these 10 amendments appear first in the U.S. Constitution, they were actually created last in order to ensure the ratification of the U.S. Constitution by 3/4 of the states.
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
Other than "one", you can use these three transition words to let your readers know you are introducing the first supporting detail.
What are: first (of all); to begin with; for one thing?
300
According to Steck-Vaughn (2013), "Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns. The noun that the pronoun replaces is call this.
What is an antecedent?
400
Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran are found in this area of Asia
What is the Middle East?
400
The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungry on June 28, 1914 set into motion a war that saw the century's first large-scale civilian massacures.
What is World War I?
400
The U.S. Constitution sets a sequence for presidential succession to make sure the government continues to function without disruption. Because of this line of succession, this is usually the only time the President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are together in one room.
What is the State of the Union Address?
400
These are three examples of common word groups that usually declare the main idea.
What are: Several kinds (or ways) of; various reasons for; a number of effects;
400
Pronouns are used to keep from repeating the same noun over and over and to improve the flow of the text. These are the three types of pronouns used.
What is subject pronouns, object pronouns, and possessive pronouns.s
500
In 1950 Chinese troops invaded this country, forcing the spiritual and temporal leader, along with nearly 100,000 citizens, into exile. In the following years, China has systematically persecuted this country's culture and remaining citizens.
What is Tibet?
500
On this day the Japanese air force bombed the naval base in Pearl Harbor in reaction to U.S. protests of Japan's aggression in Asia and started World War II.
What is December 7, 1941?
500
This clause in Amendment V is also called "double jeopardy".
What does "nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb" mean.
500
Most writers use this to be a better writer.
What is a Writer's Notebook?
500
To make a plural possessive this is what is done to most singular possessive nouns ending in s.
What is use an apostrophe, and add "s". Such as James = James's.
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