🏛️ Branches of Government
The President, Vice President, and Cabinet are all part of this branch, which is responsible for enforcing the laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
This was the war fought from 1775 to 1783 for independence from Great Britain.
What is the American Revolutionary War?
She is famous for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This state is a peninsula famous for citrus fruit, alligators, and Disney World.
What is Florida?
This is the massive body of salt water that borders the East Coast of the United States.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This branch is responsible for making the laws and is made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This war (1861-1865) was fought between the "Union" in the North and the "Confederacy" in the South.
What is the Civil War?
This Shoshone woman was a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Who is Sacagawea?
You would travel to this state to see the Grand Canyon.
What is Arizona?
This is the massive body of salt water that borders the West Coast of the United States.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This branch interprets the laws and includes the Supreme Court and its nine justices.
What is the Judicial Branch?
He was the main general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and became the first U.S. President.
Who is George Washington?
She was a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, risking her life many times to help enslaved people escape to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This state, the largest by area, was purchased from Russia in 1867.
What is Alaska?
This major river, the longest in North America, flows from Minnesota all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
These are the two houses of Congress.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives.
The U.S. entered this global conflict in 1941 after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
What is World War II?
A leader of the women's suffrage movement, she fought for women's right to vote and is featured on a dollar coin.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This state is made up entirely of islands and is the most recent state to join the U.S.
What is Hawaii?
This is the major mountain range located in the western United States, known for its high, jagged peaks.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This system was created by the Constitution to ensure that no single branch of government becomes too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
War in which British forces captured Washington, D.C. in and burned public buildings, including the White House.
What is the War of 1812?
This famous pilot was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, but she mysteriously disappeared.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
Home to the "Lone Star," this state was an independent republic before it joined the United States.
What is Texas?
This other major mountain range, located in the eastern United States, passes through 15 U.S. states including Kentucky.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?