Three Branches of Government
These are the three branches of American Government.
What are the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches?
This man, elected in 2008, was America’s first African-American president.
Who was Barack Obama?
This Amendment give us the right to bear and keep arms, for protection if ever the U.S. be subject to a tyrannical government.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
One of the biggest figures in the movement, this man used his position to promote peaceful protests while pushing for just treatment for black americans. He helped organize and lead many marches, protests, and was tragically assassinated for his efforts.
Who was. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This war was fought to gain independence from Great Britain, and united the 13 colonies for the first time.
What was the Revolutionary War?
This branch of government is responsible for making laws. It has two Houses; the Senate and House of Representatives.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This 16th President is famous for potentially inventing the chokeslam and ending slavery in America.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Ending Women’s Suffrage, this amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
This woman, who often fought side by side with Martin Luther King Jr, is most famous for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This war, fought over states rights to uphold slavery, holds the record for the most American lives lost in combat, and spanned roughly 4 years.
What was the Civil War?
This is instituted between the branches of government to ensure no one branch would be able to control too much power, and it created a separation of powers.
What is checks and balances?
This 3rd President wrote the Declaration of Independence, bought Louisiana from France, and founded the University of Virginia.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
These are the five rights given to us in the First Amendment.
What are freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and government petition?
This event, which occurred in August 1963, was attended by 250,000 people in support of labor and freedom for all African Americans. It is also where the “I Have a Dream Speech” was given at the Lincoln Memorial.
What was the March on Washington?
This war was fought against the Axis Powers, and ended with the only use of atomic weapons in world history by the United States.
What was World War II?
This branch of government is responsible for interpreting the meaning of laws and the Constitution.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This president was held responsible for the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1963, and urged America to send a man to the moon before the Soviet Union. He also has a boulevard named after him in Jersey City!
Who is John F. Kennedy?
These two amendments are a package deal; one instituted a ban on the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages. The other amendment repealed the first one, the only time in history this has been done.
What are the 18th and 21st Amendments?
This landmark moment in the gay rights movement started with police brutality and ended with a brick through a bar window, thrown by Marsha P. Johnson.
What are the Stonewall Riots?
This war ended in a stalemate, and was the basis for the hit TV show M*A*S*H, which lasted more than three times as long as the war it chronicled.
What was the Korean War?
When Congress passes a law, the President can veto it. This is the percentage Congress needs to override the President’s veto and get the law passed.
What is 66.6% / two-thirds / 2/3?
This man was our 22nd and 24th President; the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms.
Who was Grover Cleveland?
This Amendment sets a two-term limit on presidency; before this was passed, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected 4 times and served as President for 13 years before his death.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
This Supreme Court case ended open racial discrimination and segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This was the only war America truly “lost,” when the Southern half of the country was overrun by Communist forces.
What is the Vietnam War?