Principles of American Democracy
The supreme law of the land
What is the Constitution?
The part of the government that deals with courts, judges, and the interpretation and application of laws
What is the judicial branch?
The age citizens have to be in order to vote in elections
What is 18 years of age?
The first President of the United States
Who is George Washington?
The name of the ocean on the West Coast of the United States
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The name of the first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
The person in charge of the executive branch
Who is the President?
Two rights guaranteed by the First Amendment in the Constitution
What is Freedom of Speech?
What is Freedom of Religion?
What is Freedom of the Press?
What is the Right to Peacefully Assemble?
What is the Right to Petition the Government?
The date the Declaration of Independence was adopted
What is July 4th, 1776?
The name of the national anthem
What is the Star-Spangled Banner?
The number of amendments the the Constitution has
What is 27 amendments?
The two houses of Congress
What is the Senate and House of Representatives?
Who we show loyalty to when we recite the Pledge of Allegiance
What is the United States?
What is the flag?
The “Father of Our Country”
Who is George Washington?
The capital of the United States
What is Washington, D.C.?
The economic system in the United States
What is capitalist economy?
What is market economy?
The amount of U.S. Senators in Congress
What is 100 Senators?
When all men must register for the Selective Service
What is between the ages of 18 and 26?
The events that occured at the Constitutional Convention
What is the Founding Fathers writing the Constitution?
The reason why the flag has 13 stripes
What is the 13 original colonies?
The rule of law (list at least three)
What is everyone must follow the law?
What is leaders must obey the law?
What is government must obey the law?
What is no one is above the law?
The highest court in the United States
What is the Supreme Court?
The last day you can send in federal income tax forms
What is April 15th?
What Susan B. Anthony advocated for
What is fought for women’s rights?
The two national U.S. holidays uplifting African-American History
What is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day?
What is Juneteenth?