Category One
The Supreme Law of the Land.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The number of Amendments in the U.S. Constitution.
What are 27 Amendments?
Significance of September 11th.
What are the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York city.
The number of Amendments in the Bill of Rights.
What are 10 Amendments?
The number of years that is considered one term for the President of the United States.
What is four years of service and leadership?
The U.S. Constitution's purpose.
What was created to protect the rights of the U.S. citizens?
Veterans' Day (Purpose)
What the day that honors and celebrates present and former military officials who serve and protect our country?
The President of the U.S. is no longer able to serve, therefore the __________ will have to take his place.
Who is the Vice President?
The location of the Statue of Liberty.
What is New York city?
The war that ended slavery.
What is the Civil War?
Declared that all enslaved people in Confederate states in rebellion "are, and henceforward shall be free".
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The U.S. War between the North and South in 1861 to 1865.
What is the Civil War?
The __________ lived in the Americas before the Europeans arrived.
Who are the Native Americans?
One reason the colonist (U.S.) wanted to be free from British rule.
What is taxation without representation?
The __________ is the founding document that stated the U.S. is free from British rule. It was adopted on _____________ (date).
What is the Declaration of Independence?
There are ______ branches of U.S. Government. They are the ________ branch, __________ branch, and __________ branch.
What are the 3 branches of government?
What is Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
The most influential document that influenced the U.S. Constitution is the ___________.
What is the Magna Carta?
The words Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness can be found in this founding U.S. document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This group of individuals are responsible for electing U.S. Senators.
Who are citizens of the United States?
This movement ended segregation and was the sole reason for monumental events such as Voting Rights Act and Brown v. Board of Education providing equal rights to African Americans in the United States.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
There are _____ branches of U.S. Government, and the purpose of having three is considered _________________. A common phrase in U.S. government.
What are 3 branches of government?
What are Checks and Balances?
The President of the United States is a part of the ___________ branch of Government. This makes sense because this branch has the power to ___________ decisions.
What is Executive Branch?
What is Veto?
The Vice President of the U.S. is no longer able to serve, therefore the __________ will have to take his place.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
The highest court in the land is the ___________, which consist of _______ members who have the option to remain members for __________ (time period).
What is ...
Supreme Court
9 members
a lifetime
__________ is famous for the speech "I Have a Dream" which was presented in __________ at the __________ (location).
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
What is the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.?