US Geography
The ocean that is east to the United States.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
These are the three branches of the U.S. Government.
What are legislative, judicial and executive?
This is the number of years for a President of the United States to serve in one term.
What is four years?
The first 10 amendments to the constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
The number of delegates that wrote the Constitution.
What is 55?
This southern state was the home of the first president of the United States.
What was Virginia?
The legislative branch is made up of these two groups.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
When a President does not want to sign a bill into law, he does this.
What is veto?
The First Amendment provides freedom of these 5 rights to all Americans.
What are freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom to assemble and freedom to protest (petition the government).
This is the year the Constitution was written.
What is 1787? (May through August)
This small colony was the last (13th) of the original 13 colonies to join the United States of America after ratifying the constitution.
What was Rhode Island?
The number of Senators in the Government.
What is 100
This is what the combination of the Senate and the House of Representatives is called.
What is the Senate?
This Amendment allows us to "bear arms".
What is the Second Amendment?
He is called the father of the Constitution.
Who was James Madison?
This was the first capital of the United States of America.
What is New York City?
The highest court in the Judicial branch.
What is the Supreme Court?
The military works under this branch of Government.
What is the Executive Branch?
This Amendment means that police can't come into my home and start searching things without a search warrant.
What is the fourth Amendment?
The Constitution's nickname...
What is "the law of the land?"
This river starts at the Atlantic Ocean and goes into the state of New York.
What is the Hudson River?
Currently, this is the number of people elected into the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
The number of justices on the Supreme Court
What is 9?
He wrote the Bill of Rights to protect the civil liberties of each American.
Who was James Madison?
Twenty seven of these have been added to the Constitution.
What are Amendments?