Principles of American Democracy
The three branches of government.
What are Legislative, Executive and Judicial?
The first "Americans" who owned the land before the Europeans.
Who are the Native Americans?
The territory the United States buy from France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
The longest river in the United States.
What is the Mississippi river?
The three rights declared in the Declaration of Independence.
What are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness?
Stops one branch of government from being too powerful.
When the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
What is July 4, 1776?
Major factor that lead to the Civil War
Name two states that do NOT border Mexico.
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The economic system in the United States.
What is capitalism?
The number of US Senators for each state.
What is two?
This happened at the Constitutional Convention.
The writing of the Constitution.
The army that was defeated in the Civil War.
What is the Confederate Army?
The state where the Statue of Liberty stands.
What is New York?
The number of constitutional amendments.
What is 27?
The month we vote for the president of the United States.
What is November?
The year the Constitution was written
What is 1787?
The document signed by Abraham Lincoln that freed African-Americans that were brutally and inhumanly enslaved.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The capital of the United States?
What is Washington, D.C.?
The country the United States declared our independence from.
What is Great Britain?
The number of voting members in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
One of the authors of the federalist papers.
Who are James Madison and John Jay?
War between the Confederate Army (South) and the Union Army (North).
What is the Civil War?
The ocean that is on the East Coast of the United States.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?