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US Government
8th Grade SS
100
The highest level of government in the United States.
What is the FEDERAL government?
100
The capitol of New York State
What is Albany, NY
100
LeBron James first basketball team
What are the Cleveland Cavaliers?
100
The three branches of the Federal government.
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches.
100
From New York, he was the American President during WWII and the Great Depression
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
200
When the legislative branch removes a President or other executive from office.
What is impeachment?
200
The thirteen original colonies that establish the United States
What are: Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
200
Released in 2014 this is Taylor Swift's most sold song
What is Shake it Off?
200
The Legislative Branch, often called Congress, is composed of 535 members from these two bodies.
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
200
The war between the Soviet Union and the United States
What is the Cold War?
300
The idea that the democracy United States was to stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
With a population of nearly 700,000 the residents of this district capital do not have voting representation in Congress
What is Washington D.C.?
300
The best Kpop Band currently making hits.
Who are Blackpink?
300
In March the Utah Legislature voted to pass a bill banning transgender athletes from participating in girls sports. The Governor did not support this bill so he did this.
What is a veto?
300
In the early 1900s this group of people worked in cities to push for social change and improvements to government.
Who are the PROGRESSIVES?
400
To break down and examine the separate components of a topic, object, or article
What is to ANALYZE
400
It is the most populous city and largest capital in North America
What is Mexico City?
400
Released in 1937 this was the first animated movie ever made by Disney
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
400
In March the Governor of Utah vetoed a bill banning transgender athletes from competing in girls sports. In response the Utah Legislature did this to make the bill become law.
What is override?
400
Shown in this photo, these two individuals worked to improve the lives of farm workers in America.
Who are Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta?
500
To follow continuously or unbroken
What is CONSECUTIVE?
500
The Sioux Indians previously roamed this region
What is the Great Plains?
500
It is the smallest prime number
What is 2?
500
Also used in Germany, this system of government distributes power between different levels of government.
What is Federalism?
500
Project Mercury was the first NASA space program to get people into outer space but this was the NASA space program to get astronauts to the moon
What is the Apollo program?