Citizenship test
What do we call the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?
The Bill of Rights
While discussing nuclear disarmament w/ the Soviet Union, President Ronald Reagan often pulled out this Russian proverb, doveryay, no proveryay
Trust but verify
Originally from Quebec, what food comes from the local french slang word for a “mess”?
Poutine
Who shot me (Lincoln)?
John Wilkes Booth
Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, William and Gilbert Tennent, and others preached during this religious movement during the 1700s
The Great Awakening 🥱
Who is the commander in chief of the military?
The President
This American baptist minister said several patriotic things, such as “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed” and “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
MLK Jr
What is the name of the oldest national park in Canada that is home to the famous natural hot springs, established in 1885 in Alberta
Banff
When this president was shot, he chose to continue w/ delivering a speech, saying “...I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose”
Theodore Roosevelt
What was the forced displacement of most Native Americans living east of the Mississippi River to lands far in the west referred to?
Trail of Tears
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What did Susan B Anthony do?
Fought for women’s/civil rights
This former supreme court justice was the first Jewish woman to serve on the Supreme Court, saying that “America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
MC: Which Canadian territory has a name meaning "our land" in the language that is spoken by the mother tongue of more than 60% of its residents? This is also the largest, northernmost, and easternmost territory
Nunavut
Who was the first known president to survive an assassination attempt, even going so far as to beat his assassin w/ his cane after both of the assassin’s pistols misfired?
Andrew Jackson
TIA: This political party championed church and state, freedom of religion, decentralization, free markets, free trade, and agrarianism, founded by Thomas Jefferson- and shares names with parties that exist to this day. Oh, Let’s show these Federalists who they’re up against // Oh, Southern mother****** ____ ____
Democratic Republicans, Jeffersonian Republicans
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Who becomes President if the President/VP can no longer serve?
Speaker of the House
This quote is attributed to Col Walter Hitchcock, describing how the freedoms we enjoy are only possible through risks and sacrifices taken by the military, expressing the attitudes of America after the 9/11 attacks and the passing of the Patriot Act
Freedom isn’t/ain’t free
Founded in Quebec, what is the French name of the private entertainment company which has sold over 100 million tickets for its unique blend of continuous live music and circus-like acrobatics?
Cirque du Soleil
NB: This minister said that “We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.” He was arrested and executed for being in connection w/ ppl involved in Operation Valkyrie, the failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When was the KKK originally founded?
1865, the year the Civil War ended 🤔
BG
Name one author of the federalist papers
4S: In the Gettysburg Address, I (Lincoln) said that “we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government ____ ____ ____, ____ ____ ____, ____ ____ ____ (3 parallel descriptors) shall not perish from the earth”
of the people, by the people, for the people
Manitoban actor Adam Beach played U.S. Marine Corporal Ira Hayes in "Flags of Our Fathers," about the World War II men photographed raising a flag over what hard-fought island?
Iwo Jima
Barring conspiracy theories, who assassinated Kennedy? 4S: who assassinated Kennedy’s assassin?
Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby
What Italian explorer was America named after?
Amerigo Vespucci 🤌🏻 🇮🇹