Founding Documents
This document announced America’s independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This branch reviews and explains laws.
What is the judicial branch?
Americans vote for President during this month.
What is November?
The United States bought this territory from France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
The Statue of Liberty is located here.
What is New York Harbor?
(Also acceptable: Liberty Island)
This document sets up and defines the government.
What is the Constitution?
The two parts of Congress.
What are the Senate and House of Representatives?
Citizens promise this when becoming a U.S. citizen.
What is loyalty to the United States?
(Also acceptable: obey laws, defend Constitution, serve nation)
This civil rights leader worked for equality for all Americans.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
The 13 stripes on the American flag represent these.
What are the original 13 colonies?
The Constitutional Convention took place in this year.
What is 1787?
U.S. Senators serve terms of this many years.
What is 6 years?
Men must register for this between ages 18 and 26.
What is the Selective Service?
President during World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
One state that borders Mexico.
What is Texas?
(Also acceptable: California, Arizona, New Mexico)
These papers supported passage of the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
The House of Representatives has this many voting members.
What is 435?
Two ways Americans participate in democracy.
What are voting and joining a political party?
(Other acceptable answers apply)
President during the Great Depression and World War II.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
One American Indian tribe in the United States.
What is the Cherokee tribe?
(Other acceptable tribes apply) Sioux, Navajo, Ouachita, Creek, Blackfoot, Crow, Apache, Pueblo, Choctaw, Chippewa, Matoaca, Dakota, Shawnee
One writer of the Federalist Papers.
Who is James Madison, or Alexander Hamilton, or John Jay, or Publius
The President’s Cabinet mainly performs this function.
What is advising the President?
Four amendments to the Constitution deal with this right.
What is the right to vote?
The main concern of the United States during the Cold War.
What is Communism?
One U.S. territory.
What is Puerto Rico?
(Also acceptable: Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, etc.)