Civics Vocabulary
Nevada
Famous Last Words
American Ways & Means
Sports Stars
100

Suffrage

right to vote

100

largest city

Las Vegas

100

gave the famous, "I have a dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial

Martin Luther King, Jr.

100

Our national bird

bald eagle

100

LeBron James

basketball

200

cabinet

group of presidential advisors

200

Nevada Day

October 31

200

Announced to the Filipino people during WW2, "I have returned!"

General Douglas MacArthur

200

We fly these outside our homes

U.S. flags

200

Cristiano Ronaldo

soccer

300

come to an agreement where nobody gets exactly what they want

compromise

300

State bird

mountain bluebird

300

Former President who vowed, "I am not a crook!"

Richard Nixon

300

"As American as ______ pie"

apple

300

Roger Federer

tennis

400

how we got military personnel before passage of the Selective Service Act

draft

400

Name the 3 states which border Nevada to the east

Idaho, Utah, Arizona

400

President who promised, "Read my lips--no new taxes."

George H.W. Bush

400

slogan on all U.S. paper money   

"In God We Trust"

400

Lindsey Vonn

skiing

500

all the people who are entitled to vote in any given election

electorate

500

Year Nevada entered the Union

1864

500

"Basket of deplorables"

Hillary Clinton

500

American holiday first made official by Abraham Lincoln

Thanksgiving

500

Virat Kohli

cricket

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