American Democracy
The supreme law of the land.
What is the constitution?
Name the branches of the government.
What is congress, legislative, President, executive, the courts, judicial?
The four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote.
What is citizens eighteen (18) and older can vote, you do not have to play a poll tax to vote, any citizen can vote (women and men), and/or a male citizen of any race?
The reasons that the colonists came to America.
What is freedom, political liberty, religious freedom, economic opportunity, able to practice their religion, and escape persecution?
Name the wars fought by the United States in the 1900's?
What is WW1, WW2, Korean War, Vietnam War, and Gulf War?
Name three things the Constitution does.
What is sets up the government, defines the government, and protects basic rights of Americans?
Name the concepts that stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances and separation of powers?
The responsibilities that is only for United States citizens?
What is serve on a jury and vote in a federal election?
These people lived in America before the Europeans arrived.
Who are the American Indians and/or Native Americans?
The president during WW1.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution.
What is we the people?
The title of who is in charge of the executive branch.
Name rights only for United States citizens.
What is vote in a federal election and run for federal office?
The group of people that were taken to America and sold as slaves.
Who are the Africans or people from Africa?
The President during the Great Depression and World War II.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
An amendment is. . .
What is a change or addition to the constitution?
This branch of government makes federal laws.
Who is congress, senate and house of representatives, or legislature?
Name the rights of everyone living in the United States?
What is freedom of expression, speech, assembly, to petition the government, religion, and right to bear arms?
Name three reasons the colonist fought the British.
What is high taxes, British army staying in their homes, and they did not have self-government?
The United States fought these countries in WWII?
Who is Japan, Italy, and Germany?
The first ten amendments to the constitution are called. . .
What is the Bill of Rights?
The two parts of the U.S. Congress are. . .
What is the senate and house of representatives?
We show loyalty to what when we say the Pledge of Allegiance.
What is the United States and the flag.
The author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. Name the war he was in.
What is WWII?