Name the right given to women by the 19th Amendment.
What is the right to vote?
100
Name the branch of government that includes the Supreme Court.
What is the Judicial branch?
100
Tell the name given to the first ten amendments to our Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
100
Name the capital of the United States.
What is Washington, DC?
100
Name the word that means what someone can and can't do.
What are rules/laws?
200
Name one way to become a citizen of the United States of America.
What are:
1) Born in U.S.A.
2) Pass the citizenship test
3) If your parents are born in U.S.A.
200
Name the branch of national government that includes Congress.
What is the Legislative branch?
200
Name the way our constitution limits the power of government.
What is: it spells out what a government can and can't do.
200
Name 2 public services provided by state governments.
What are:
1) public libraries & schools
2) state parks
(or any other acceptable answer)
200
How many years is a Senate term?
What is 4 years?
300
Name one responsibility of US citizens, other than paying taxes.
Accept any correct answer.
300
Name the branch of government that carries out the laws.
What is the Executive branch?
300
Name the highest level of government that everyone must follow.
What is federal/national?
300
Name the group of men who met at the Constitutional Convention to write a plan for how the government works.
Who are the Founding Fathers?
300
How many senators are in the Nebraska Legislature?
What is 49?
400
Name the responsibility citizens have that provides the government money to pay for things like schools, parks, police, etc.
What is paying taxes?
400
Name the leader of the Executive branch in Nebraska.
Who is Governor Pete Ricketts?
400
Name the reason the U.S. Constitution is still effective even though it was written over 200 years ago.
What is because it can be changed with amendments?
400
Name a reason having a government is important.
What is:
1. protect the health and safety of citizens
2. provide public services
3. provide a justice system
4. promote the common good
5. protect the rights of individual citizens
400
Name two requirements for voting in Nebraska.
What are:
*18 and over
*Resident of Nebraska
*Registered to Vote
*Never committed a felony
500
Name the right given to women by the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.
What is the right to vote?
500
Name the Nebraska's Legislative Branch and tell why it is special.
What is Unicameral? It is the only one-house legislature.
500
Name the year the US Constitution was written.
What is 1787?
500
Name 2 ways our state government uses taxes to helps protect citizens' health and safety.
What are funding fire departments, police departments, veterans hospitals etc...
500
Name two people currently running for President of The United States.