Democracy
Name of the document that sets the law of the land
What is the Constitution?
Person in charge of the Executive Branch
Who is the President?
BONUS
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Original settlers in the United States
Who were the Native Americans?
Date of Independence Day
What is the 4th of July?
Name of the document that declared freedom from Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Length of the Presidential Term
What is 4 years?
Age to vote in Elections
What is 18?
Date of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence
Family holiday with Turkey and Pumpkins
What is Thanksgiving?
The three first words to the Constitution
What is "We the People"
The two major political parties in the U.S.
What are the Democrats and the Republicans?
Age to sign up for military service (men only)
What is 18?
President that freed slaves
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The name of the day that commemorates all U.S. presidents
What is President's day?
Number of amendments to the Constitution
What is 27?
The highest court in the United States
What is the Supreme Court?
A right only for American citizens
What is the right to vote?
Name of the U.S. war between the North and the South
What was the Civil War?
Name of the holiday that commemorates Christopher Columbus
What is Columbus day?
Name of the document that has the first 10 amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
Name one branch or one part of the government
What are the
Branches of government:
- Legislative, Judical, or Executive
Parts of government:
- Congress, the Courts, or the President
(Name) two rights of every American living in the U.S.
What is:
- freedom of expression
- freedom of speech
- freedom of assembly
- freedom to petition the government
- freedom of religion
- the right to bear arms
Civil rights activist famous for his "I Have a Dream Speech"
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Day in January to celebrate this famous civil rights activist's birthday ("I have a dream")
What is Martin Luther King Jr. Day?