Holidays
These holidays are in a legal sense only for federal institutions and in the District of Columbia.
What are national holidays?
This honors the original states that were colonies of Great Britain before America's independence.
What are the thirteen stripes?
Republic or Representative democracy
What is the form of government of the United States?
It is the administration and the control of public policy.
What is the Government?
These are subdivisions of states and have a plan for government.
What are Counties?
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Veterans Day, and Labor Day.
What are 'National' Holidays?
The number of stars on the U.S. flag reached 50 in 1959, when this state joined the United States.
What is Hawaii?
The U.S. Constitution
What is the supreme law of the land?*
Division of power between the federal and state government.
What is federalism?
What funds the city police, fire department and the library, public schools.
What are city taxes?
This date marks the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
What is July 4th?
On the night on September 13, 1814, British warships bombed Fort McHenry. An American watched the bombing and thought the fort would fall. The next morning he wrote a poem which is now the National Anthem.
What is the "Star Spangled Banner?
Forms the government, defines the government and protects basic rights of Americans and people living in the United States.
What is one thing the Constitution does?
A group of high ranking officials to help the governor.
What is a Cabinet?
Used to indicate how the county government should run
What is a charter?
Written by Thomas Jefferson this document explained why the colonists had decided to separate from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A pledge the citizens make to America.
What is a promise?
Self-government, consent of the governed, people should govern themselves, a social contract
What is meant by 'We the people?
Are the head of every state government.
What is the governor?
The closest form of government to people.
What the city or municipal government?
Since 1971, observed on Mondays except for New Year's Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
What are federal (national) holidays?
The Pledge of Allegiance says that our Union is _______________, which means it can't be separated.
What is indivisible?
The amendment process
How changes are made to the U.S. Constitution?
This position is head of the state executive branch.
What is the Governor?
Where city business is conducted.
What is City Hall?