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Name your US Representative.
Don Bacon
What does the Constitution do?
Sets up the government.
What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
Checks and balances
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
The Bill of Rights
What are the two part of the U.S Congress?
Senate and House
Who is one of your state's US Senators now?
Deb Fischer
Who is the governor of your state?
Jim Pillen
What are two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy?
vote and join a political party
What are two Cabinet-level positions?
Secretary of Education
Secretary of Energy
What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
Civil Rights Movement
What is one think Benjamin Franklin is famous for?
US Diplomat
What does the Judicial branch do?
Reviews laws
What is the name of the Speaker of the House of Representatives now?
Mike Johnson
What is one promise you make, when you become a United States citizen?
Be loyal to the United States
What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
The Constitution was written.
Who does a US Senator represent?
All people of the state
Why did the colonist fight the British?
Because of high taxes
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
When was the Constitution written?
1787
Who was president during World War I?
Woodrow Wilson
What did the Declaration of Independence do?
Said that the United States is free.
Before he was president Eisenhower was a general what war was he in?
World War II
What are two rights of everyone living in the United States?
Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion
What is the ''rule of law''?
Everyone must follow the law
What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?
Life and Liberty.