Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Civil Rights Acts
Letters from Birmingham
Federalist Papers
100

The outline of the United States government, how it is structured and how it functions.

What is the Constitution?

100

The beliefs of how government should be run (this includes a social contract and natural rights).

What is the statement of Rights?

100

An act that outlawed discrimination based on race, gender, religion, color,  or national origin within the workplace and ended segregation in public places.

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
100

The writer of the Letters from Birmingham

Who is Martin Luther King Jr?

100

A set of essays written in order to promote the ratification of the Constitution

What are the Federalist Papers?

200

The date the Constitution was written

What is on September 17, 1787?

200

August 2nd, 1776.

What is the day the Declaration of Independence was signed?

200

The President who passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act

Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?

200

King's famous quote from the letters.

What is "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"?

200

Key Federalists 

Who are James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay?

300

The number of Articles the Constitution has

What is 7 Articles?

300

Where the Declaration of Independence was written 

What is Philidelphia?

300

The first court case dealing with Civil Rights, happening in 1856

What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?

300

The date the Letters were written

What is on April 13th, 1963?

300

The pen named used by the Federalists for their essays

What is 'Publius'?

400

The part of the Constitution containing this phrase: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

What is the Preamble of the Constitution?

400

The first person to sign the Declaration

Who is John Hancock?

400

An act prohibiting discrimination in sale, retail, and financing of housing based on race and national origin

What is the Fair Housing Act of 1968?

400

Where the Letters were written

What is in Birmingham, Alabama?

400

The Federalist Paper focusing on needing a stronger central government due to its advantages in breaking up violence caused by the formation of factions. Madison believed there were two ways to control factions: taking away their liberty or by giving them the same interests, with taking away their freedoms being the worst one.

What is Federalist Paper number 10?

500

Located in Article I, Section 8

What are the powers of Congress?

500

The part of the Declaration containing this phrase:  "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

What is the opening statement of the Declaration of Independence?

500

The date the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law

What is on August 6, 1965?
500

Unjust laws cause 

What is a moral obligation to disobey?

500
The year the Federalist Papers were written

What is in 1788?