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Missouri History
Presidents
Constitution
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100
What are the three branches of government? Give one example of how each branch can check the other
What are Legislative, Executive, Judicial (checks will vary).
100
What land purchase made Missouri possible?
What is the Louisiana Purchase
100
Where does the President's power come from in the Constitution?
What is Article II
100
What are the first ten amendments of the Constitution referred to as?
What are the Bill of Rights
100
What kind of economy does the United States have?
What is a mixed economy
200
How many members are in the U.S. House and Senate
What are 435, 100
200
How many electoral votes does Missouri have?
What is 10
200
How many votes makeup the Electoral College?
What is 538
200
How many times has the U.S. Constitution been amended?
What is 27
200
What two founders wrote the Declaration of Independence, and was considered the father of the Constitution?
Who are Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
300
Who is Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Who is John Roberts
300
Where was Missouri's first state capital located?
What is St. Charles
300
After the vice-president, who are the next three in the line of presidential succession?
Who are the Speaker of the House, President Pro-Tempore, Secretary of State
300
What Amendment created woman's suffrage?
What is the 19th
300
Where have the three U.S. capitals been located since Congress formed in 1789?
What is Philadelphia, New York, Washington D.C.
400
Who are the current Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader
Who are John Boehner and Mitch McConnell
400
How many House and Senate members are in Missouri's General Assembly?
What is 163, 34
400
Name our last five presidents in reverse order starting with our current
Who are Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan
400
What are the five rights in the 1st amendment
What is speech, religion, press, assembly, petition,
400
Who were the four assassinated presidents?
Who are Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, John F. Kennedy
500
What were the five wars Congress has declared?
What are the War of 1812, Mexican American War, Spanish American War, World War I, World War II
500
Who are Missouri's Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of State?
Who are Jay Nixon, Chris Koster, Jason Kander
500
Who were the first five presidents in order?
Who are George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe
500
who penned the Constitution?
Who is Gouverneur Morris
500
Where are the five inhabited U.S. territories?
What is Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands