Principles of American Democracy
This document, written in 1787 and ratified by the states in 1788, serves as the supreme law of the United States.
What is the Constitution?
This is the capital of Vermont.
What is Montpelier?
This is the legal age to vote in the United States.
What is 18?
This man is considered the "Father of Our Country" because he led the troops against the British during the Revolution and served as the first President under the U.S. Constitution.
Who is George Washington?
This city is the capital of the United States.
What is Washington D.C.?
This document announced American independence from Great Britain and declared the United States as a free nation.
What is the Declaration of independence?
This man currently serves as the Governor of Vermont.
Who is Phil Scott?
The United States flag
This woman, born in February 1820, became a prominent member of the Women's Suffrage Movement, along with her friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton, after years of participation in the abolitionist and women's rights movement.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This state, bordering Canada, was the first to join the original thirteen colonies as a state.
What is Vermont?
This action, taken twenty-seven times so far, causes a change or addition to be officially made to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
This political party currently has a member sitting as President of the United States.
What is the Republican Party?
This amendment to the Constitution, one of four that speaks to who can vote, allowed women to vote in 1920.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
This war occurred between the Northern and Southern States of the United States after conflicts over slavery, economics, and states rights boiled into armed conflict.
What is the Civil War?
This statue, located in the New York Harbor, was a gift from France and is a universal symbol of freedom and democracy.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
These are the three rights each man holds according to the Declaration of Independence.
What is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
If the President can no longer serve, the person in this office becomes President.
What is the Vice President?
This addition to the Constitution includes the first 10 amendments and outlines basic rights for U.S. citizens.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This man is the longest-serving president in United States history and led the nation out of the Great Depression and into World War II.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This song, a poem written by a prisoner on a ship in the Baltimore Harbor during the War of 1812, is the national anthem for the United States.
What is the Star-Spangled Banner?
The Constitution has this many amendments.
What is twenty-seven?
This woman is currently the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
This is the principle that supports the freedom of an individual to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction.
What is Freedom of Speech?
This man wrote the Declaration of Independence, founded the University of Virginia, and served as the nation's third president.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This river feeds out into the Gulf of Mexico at New Orleans and is the second-longest river in the United States.
What is the Mississippi River?