Principles of American Democracy
The first three words of the Constitution
What is We the People?
The three branches of government
What is Executive, Legislative and Judicial?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who isThomas Jefferson?
This is the capital of the United States
What is Washington DC?
This is the name of the national anthem
What is The Star-Spangled Banner?
The supreme law of the land is
What is the Constitution?
The number of US Senators and voting members of the House of Representatives
What is 100 and 435?
This executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln declared freedom for enslaved people in the Confederate states during the Civil War
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These are the 5 U.S. territories
What is Puerto Rico ▪ U.S. Virgin Islands ▪ American Samoa ▪ Northern Mariana Islands ▪ Guam?
United States fight these countries in World War II?
The number of amendments to the Constitution
What is 27?
We elect a US Representative for this many years
What is 2 Years?
These wars where fought by the United States during this century, Mexican-American War ▪ Civil War ▪ Spanish-American War
What is the 1800s (19th Century)?
These are the two longest rivers in the United States
What is Missouri (River) ▪ Mississippi (River)?
He was the President during the Great Depression and World War II?
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
The 3 rights of the Declaration of Independence
What is Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness?
To print money, declare war, create an army, and/or make treaties
What is the powers of the federal government?
These are the names of the original 13 states
What is New Hampshire ▪ Massachusetts ▪ Rhode Island ▪ Connecticut ▪ New York ▪ New Jersey ▪ Pennsylvania ▪ Delaware ▪ Maryland ▪ Virginia ▪ North Carolina ▪ South Carolina ▪ Georgia?
These 4 states border Mexico
What is California ▪ Arizona ▪ New Mexico ▪ Texas?
This is how old you need to be to vote for a president
What is 18 years old?
The five freedoms within the First Amendment
What is Speech, Religion, Assembly, Press, and Petition of Government?
provide schooling and education, protection (police), safety (fire departments), give a driver’s license and/or approve zoning and land use
What is power of the states?
This land was bought by the United States from France in 1803
What is the Louisiana Territory?
The number of states that the Appalachian Mountains run through
What is 18
What is 1787?