US Gov.
This is the form of government of the U.S.
What is a republic (or Constitution-based federal republic or Representative democracy)?
These are the three branches of the U.S. government.
What are the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
These are three (of many) rights everyone living in the United States is guaranteed by the Constitution.
What are freedom of expression, speech, assembly, to petition the government, religion, and the right to bear arms?
This is one of the many reasons that colonists originally came to America.
What is freedom, political liberty, religious freedom, economic opportunity, and/or to escape persecution?
This is one example of an American innovation (something invented in the U.S.).
What are the light bulb, automobiles, skyscrapers, airplanes, assembly line, landing on the moon, and integrated circuit?
This is considered the "supreme law of the land".
What is the Constitution?
The President of the United States is in charge of this branch of government.
What is the Executive?
This is one way Americans can serve their country.
What is voting, paying taxes, obeying the law, serving in the military, running for office, or working for local, state, or federal government?
What is the Revolutionary War (The American Revolution, or War for American Independence)?
This was the United States' main rival during the Cold War.
Who is/was the Soviet Union (USSR, Russia)?
These are used to make changes to the U.S. Constitution.
What are amendments?
This part of the federal government writes laws.
What is the Legislative branch (or Congress, or legislature)
This is who can vote in federal elections, run for federal office, and serve on a jury.
Who is a U.S. citizen?
This is one of the many reasons Americans declared independence from Britain.
What are high taxes, taxation without representation, boarding of British soldiers in colonists' homes, no self-government, the Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Stamp/Sugar Act, Townshend Acts, and the Intolerable Acts?
This is the capital of the United States.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This founding document said the American colonies were free from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
These are the two parts of Congress.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
Every American citizen is required to pay this by April 15th every year.
What is federal income tax?
This is the date when the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
What is July 4, 1776?
This is what the thirteen stripes on the U.S. flag mean.
What is because they represent the thirteen original colonies?
This is the main economic system of the United States.
What is capitalism (or Free market economy)?
This is the highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
This is one way citizens can fulfill their civic duty.
What is voting, running for office, joining a political party, joining a civic group, contacting elected officials, writing an article for news?
These were two of the original thirteen colonies/states in America.
What are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Georgia?
"E Pluribus Unum" was the first motto of the United States. It means this.
What is "out of many, one" or "we all become one"?