Founding
Written in 1776, this document declared our freedom from England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The head of the executive branch.
Who is the President?
What is legislative?
There are about this many people in the bureaucracy.
What is 3 million?
On December 8, 1941, this President asked Congress to declare war against Japan.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
Ratified in 1788, this document established the foundation of the U.S. government.
What is the Constitution?
The Constitution has 7 articles. This article details the powers of the executive branch, and the president.
What is Article II?
This part of the U.S. government can impeach the President.
What is the House of Representatives?
According to the 1960s "Operation Mongoose," this agency tried to overthrow Fidel Castro as leader of Cuba. It failed.
What is the CIA?
This president called for the assassination of Iran Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Who is Donald Trump?
There are 27 of these in the U.S. Constitution.
What are Amendments?
What is an executive order?
Vermont's three federal representatives in Congress.
Who is Sanders, Welch, and Balint?
Established in 1970, this agency is charged with enforcing many "green" laws.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (or EPA)?
These three Presidents all passed executive orders that impacted millions of acreas in Bears Ears National Monument in Utah.
Who are Obama, Trump, and Biden?
John Adams once said, “we are a nation of THIS, not men.”
What are laws?
In 1952, during the Korean War, this branch of government stopped the President from making the steel mills the property of the U.S. government (like the Post Office.)
What is judicial?
In defending the U.S. Constitution, James Madison wrote: “In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this inconveniency is to divide the legislature into THESE different branches.”
What is the Senate and House of Representatives?
In 2020, there were 495,941 employees in this non-military agency - one of the federal government's largest. Unlike many agencies, this one is explicitly authorized by the Constitution.
What is the Post Office?
Who is Harry Truman?
George Washington was referring to this when he said: "They are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government.”
What are political parties?
In August 2022, the director of the FBI Christopher Wray ordered FBI agents to search the home of President Trump to recover classified documents. Wray was appointed by this person.
Who is President Trump?
In 2022, Congress authorized this department to spend $2.7 trillion - 24% of the federal budget - among its 13 sub agencies.
What is the Department of Health?
The first three Departments in the bureucracy under George Washington.
Who is Chester Arthur?