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100

This branch of government is responsible for carrying out the laws.

What is the Executive branch?

100

This capital city of Maryland is 25 miles south of Baltimore and 30 miles east of Washington D.C.

What is Annapolis?

100

These native Americans were the first residents in Missouri. 

Who were the Mound Builders?

100

This term describes the way a country (or region) manages its money and resources to produce, buy and sell goods and services. 

What is the Economy?

100

Missouri has had four of these: 1820, 1865, 1875, 1945. It creates the 3 branches of government, outlines the setup of the local governments and protects the rights and citizens of Missouri. 

What is the Missouri Constitution? 

200

This branch of government is responsible for creating the laws.

What is the Legislative branch?

200

This capital city of Delaware is the second largest city in Delaware. It is located on the St. Jones River.  

What is Dover?

200

This Missouri Native American tribe were hunters and farmers. They grew pumpkins, corn, beans and squash. They lived in the southern and western parts of Missouri. 

Who are the Osage?

200

These are the three main types of resources.

What are natural resources, capital resources, and human resources?

200

These are the three primary responsibilities of Missouri citizens. 

What are voting, paying taxes, and obeying laws?

300

This branch of government is responsible for interpreting and applying the laws.

What is the Judicial branch?

300

This capital city of Wisconsin is located on an isthmus formed by Lake Mendota to the North and Lake Monona to the south.

What is Madison?

300

In 1673 the first explorers of Missouri sailed down the Mississippi River in canoes. They were a Jesuit priest and a French Trader.

Who are Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet?

300

The materials or substances from nature that are used to produce goods and services (for example: forests, land, water, minerals).

What are natural resources?

300

These three basic rights are guaranteed to all Missouri citizens by the constitution. 

What are the right to freedom of speech, the right to vote, the right be treated fairly.

400

The members of this branch include the lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor, attorney general.

What is the Executive Branch?

400

This capital city of California is located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers in Northern California's Sacramento Valley.

What is Sacramento?

400

In 1682, this French explorer led an expedition down the Illinois and Missouri rivers claiming all the region watered by the Mississippi and its tributaries for Louis XIV of France. He named the area "Louisiana" in honor of the king.  

Who is Rene-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle?

400

These goods are used to make other goods and services (for example: tools, equipment, machinery, buildings).

What are capital resources?

400

These are the minimum requirements to be allowed to vote in Missouri.

What are being a US citizen, a resident of MO, and being 18 years old? 

500

This individual is responsible for signing bills into laws, vetoing bills, appointing judges, choosing directors for state agencies, and is in charge of the National Guard.

Who is the Governor?

500

This capital city of Kentucky became the state's capital in 1792 after pledging more manpower toward the construction of a statehouse than any other city.

What is Frankfort?

500

In 1762 Spain gains control of the Louisiana Territory from this country.

What is France?

500

When the supply is LOW and the demand is HIGH, the price will go...

What is UP?

500

Paying taxes allow the government to pay for these types of services and facilities.

What are police, fire fighters, schools, roads and parks?

600

This branch includes the Senate with 34 members and the House of Representatives with 163 members (Missouri).

What is the Legislative Branch?

600

These explorers mapped the Louisiana Purchase.

Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?

600

In 1800 Spain returns the Louisiana territory back to France. In 1803 this US president bought the Louisiana territory from Napoleon for $15 million. 

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

600

The total amount of goods or services that customers will buy at a certain price.

What is Demand?

600

This US president was born in Lamar Missouri in 1884. He became the 33rd president in 1945 after president Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office. He dropped atomic bombs on Japan which ended World War II.   

Who is Harry Truman?

700

The State Legislature is also known as this.

What is the General Assembly?

700

These lines give the distance east and west of an imaginary line that runs from the north pole and south pole measured in degrees. 

What are Longitude lines?

700

In this year, Missouri became the 24th state after Congress adopted the Missouri Compromise.

What is 1821?

700

These three main types of taxes are used to fund the government. 

What are Income, Sales, and Property taxes?

700

These three colors on the Missouri flag represent valor, purity, and vigilance/permanency/justice. The flag was designed by Mrs. Marie Elizabeth Oliver and was officially adopted in 1913 and is nicknamed the "Oliver flag". 

What are red, white and blue?