Three Branches
The three branches of government.
What is the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
This is how old you must be in order to vote
What is 18?
This is the YEAR and DATE the Declaration of Independence was signed
What is July 4, 1776?
These are the two major oceans that border the U.S.
What is the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
The supreme "law of the land."
What is the US Constitution?
This role is in charge of the Executive branch.
Who is the President?
These are two rights guaranteed under the First Amendment
What is freedom of speech, religion, assembly, press, or right to petition the government?
Who is George Washington?
The only Great Lake that touches Pennsylvania
What is Lake Erie?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
Congress is comprised of these two bodies.
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This is the civic responsibility to serve in legal proceedings by listening to evidence in trials and reaching a verdict
What is jury duty?
This movement sought to, among many other things, end racial discrimintation and expand voting rights
What is the Civil Rights movement?
These two states are not considered part of the "continental United States"
What is Alaska and Hawaii?
The number of total amendments to the Constitution
What is 27?
He is one PA's current Senators
Who is John Fetterman or Dave McCormick?
What is April 15?
He holds the record for being the longest serving President
Who is FDR?
This holds the record as the longest river in the U.S.
What is the Missouri River?
The idea of "self-government" comes from these first three words of the Constitution
What is "We the People?"
This role becomes President if both the President and Vice President can no longer serve
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This is when election day is every year
What is the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November?
She fought for civil and women's rights, especially the right of women to vote
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
These are two of the United State's territories (not states)
What is Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Northern Mariana Islands?
The YEAR and DATE the Constitution was signed
What is September 17, 1787?