American Democracy
The Supreme Law of the Land
What is the Constitution?
The Congress is made up of these two groups.
What is the Senate and House of Representatives?
The minimum age to vote in the United States.
What is 18 years old?
Group of people taken to the United States as slaves.
Who are African Americans?
Puerto Rico ▪ U.S. Virgin Islands ▪ American Samoa ▪ Northern Mariana Islands ▪ Guam, are not fully apart of the U.S.
What are U.S. territories?
The first Ten amendments of the Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
This branch makes laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Men between the ages of 18-26 register with this service.
What is the Selective Service?
The man credited with writing the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
California ▪ Arizona ▪ New Mexico ▪ Texas, are all states that border this country.
What is Mexico?
The idea of Self-Government starts with these three words.
What is "we the people"?
These two things prevent one Branch of Government from being to powerful.
What are checks and balances?
What are separation of powers?
Showing loyalty to the United States and the Flag, when this is said every morning in school.
What is the Pledge of Alligiance?
New Hampshire ▪ Massachusetts ▪ Rhode Island ▪ Connecticut ▪ New York ▪ New Jersey ▪ Pennsylvania ▪ Delaware ▪ Maryland ▪ Virginia ▪ North Carolina ▪ South Carolina ▪ Georgia, are all states that follow under this category.
What are the 13 colonies?
What are the 13 original states?
Maine ▪ New Hampshire ▪ Vermont ▪ New York ▪ Pennsylvania ▪ Ohio ▪ Michigan ▪ Minnesota ▪ North Dakota ▪ Montana ▪ Idaho ▪ Washington ▪ Alaska, are all states that border this country.
What is Canada?
The three rights all men are equal to in the Declaration of Independence.
What is Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
Voting for a new President occurs in this month.
What is November?
Vote ▪ join a political party ▪ Help with a campaign ▪ Join a civic group ▪ Join a community group ▪ give an elected official your opinion on an issue ▪ Call Senators and Representatives ▪ Publicly support or oppose an issue or policy ▪ run for office ▪ write to a newspaper, are all ways Americans can do this.
What is participating in Democracy?
War of 1812 ▪ Mexican-American War ▪ Civil War ▪ Spanish-American War, are all wars fought in this century.
What are the 1800s?
The official name of our National Anthem.
What is The Star Spangled Banner?
Everyone must follow the laws, Leaders must obey the laws, Government must obey the law, No one is above the law, all fall under which rule?
What is the Rule of Law?
Secretary of Agriculture Secretary of Commerce Secretary of Defense Secretary of Education Secretary of Energy Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary of Homeland Security Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Secretary of the Interior Secretary of Labor Secretary of State Secretary of Transportation Secretary of the Treasury Secretary of Veterans Affairs Attorney General Vice President, all make up this group.
What is the President's Cabinet?
The last day to send in Federal Income Tax forms.
What is April 15?
U.S. diplomat ▪ Oldest member of the Constitutional Convention ▪ First Postmaster General of the United States ▪ Writer of “Poor Richard’s Almanac” ▪ started the first free libraries, are all reasons this Founding Father is famous.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
These are the two longest rivers in the U.S.
What are the Mississippi and Missouri River?