Civics/Government
How long is one term of a House of Representative member?
What is two years?
DOUBLE TEACHER KNOWLEDGE POINTS
What is Mrs. Chan's favorite sports team?
What is the San Jose Sharks.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
What is freed enslaved people in the South. (It's purpose, although we learned that many were still not directly after.)
How many colonies were there originally?
What is 13
This man was formerly enslaved and became a leading abololitionist, writer and speaker in the 1800s.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
DOUBLE TEACHER KNOWLEDGE POINTS
Where did Mrs. Chan attend university after high school?
What is SCU. Santa Clara University.
True or False? Christopher Columbus never reached the land that would eventually become the United States.
What is True. (He landed in the Caribbean -- Cuba, Hispaniola, San Salvador, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Venezuela and Antigua)
Sometimes nicknamed the "Second War for Indpendence", the US went to war with Britain for the second time in this year.
What is 1812 (War of 1812)?
Where is the U.S. Congress located?
What is Washington, D.C.
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
How many Senators are currently serving in Congress?
What is 100. (2 per state)
The Confederacy included states in this geographical region.
What is the South.
In George Washington's Farewell Address, this was one of the things he warned America about.
What is political parties? OR What are permanent alliances/foreign alliances?
DOUBLE TEACHER KNOWLEDGE POINTS
What is Mrs. Chan's favorite place to visit?
What is Disneyland?
Alexander Hamilton was the first what for the United States?
What is the Secretary of the Treasury?
Who elects the President of the United States?
Who is the Electoral College?
**BONUS: How many electoral votes are there in TOTAL**
Name one of the two rivers that were the disputed border for the U.S. and Mexico during the Mexican-American War.
What is the Nueces or Rio Grande River?
The Constitutional Convention in 1787, which met and ended up drafting the US Constitution was originally a meeting to revise and fix our first written plan for government by this name.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Which two states were the last ones to be admitted to the union?
What is Hawai'i and Alaska?
Who was the 44th president of the U.S.?
Who is Barack Obama?
Who was the only president to serve longer than 8 years in office due to wartime?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
This mountain range made the journey difficult for those looking to travel West throughout U.S. History.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
What is January?
Which city in Louisiana was the original port city the United States wanted in the Louisiana Purchase?
What is New Orleans?
This woman was the founder of the American Red Cross and served as a nurse during the U.S. Civil War for the Union.
Who is Clara Barton?