Fast Facts & Geography
This is the capital city of the United States.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This region is called the “nation’s breadbasket” because it grows a lot of food.
What is the Midwest?
This bird has been the national symbol of the United States since 1782.
What is the bald eagle?
The president of the United States lives and works in this building.
What is the White House?
Enslaved people were brought from this continent to North America starting in 1619.
What is Africa?
This country gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States.
What is France?
This region includes the Grand Canyon and Carlsbad Caverns.
What is the Southwest?
This large mammal once roamed freely across the plains but now lives mostly in preserves.
What is the bison?
Citizens over age 18 vote for president and vice president every this many years.
What is every 4 years?
This speech by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 began freeing enslaved people during the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These two oceans border the United States to the west and east.
What are the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans?
These six states make up New England, where European settlers came for religious freedom.
What are Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont?
More than 400 special natural areas have been designated as National Parks and are protected by this government agency.
What is the National Park Service?
There are 100 of these people in Congress – two from each state, each serving a six-year term.
What are senators?
This 1830 law forced Native Americans to give up their lands and move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This mountain range is in the western United States and includes the highest peak, Denali.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The American West is known as a symbol of this spirit – exploring and building a new life.
What is the pioneering spirit?
Most of the over 20,000 flower species in the U.S. originally came from this continent.
What is Europe?
This person was the first African American elected President of the United States (2008).
Who is Barack Obama?
This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States after the Civil War.
What is the 13th amendment?
Denali is the highest peak in the U.S. at 20,320 feet (6,198 meters). What is the lowest point in the U.S.?
What is Death Valley?
This region struggled after starting and losing the Civil War (1860–1865) and includes states like Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana.
What is the South?
Name two of the three largest carnivores (meat-eaters) in the U.S. mentioned in the article.
What are black bears, grizzlies, and/or polar bears?
The Supreme Court has nine of these people, who are picked by the president and approved by Congress.
What are justices?
Name one of the three historic firsts mentioned for people of color between 1957 and 1968.
Who is Dalip Singh Saund (first Asian American in Congress), Thurgood Marshall (first African American Supreme Court justice), or Shirley Chisholm (first African American woman in Congress)?