Who’s that?
The President of the United States of America.
Who is Donald Trump?
The mechanism that stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What is the separation of powers or checks and balances?
One problem that led to the Civil War.
1. Economic reasons
2. Slavery
3. States rights
The colonists fought the British for this reason
What are high taxes, the British army was staying in their houses, for self government?
The position that becomes President if the President and Vice President can no longer serve.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
Known as the “Father of Our Country”.
Who is George Washington?
The Branch of government that makes federal laws.
What is Congress, legislative branch, or senate and house?
Movement that tried to end racial discrimination.
What is the civil rights movement?
One war fought by the US in the 1800s.
What is the war of 1812, civil war, Spanish-American, Mexican-American war?
The economic system in the US
What is a capitalist / market economy?
The Speaker of the House of Repsentatives.
Who is Mike Johnson?
The supreme law of the land.
What is the Constitution?
Two rights in the Declaration of Independence
What are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
The main concern of the US during the Cold War
What is communism
The Chief Justice of the US
Who is John Roberts Jr?
One of the writers of the Federalist Papers, which were written in support of the US constitution.
Who are James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Publius?
The number of voting members in the US House of Representatives.
What is 435?
The date the Declaration of Independence was adopted
What is July 4, 1776.
President Eisenhower was a general during this war.
What is WWII?
Three of the 13 original states.
What are MA, RI, NH, CT, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, VA, NC, SC, GA?
Person who started the first free libraries.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
One of the powers of state government.
What is to provide education/schooling, protection/police, fire departments, give drivers license, zoning/land use
Document that freed the slaves
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The countries the US fought in WWII.
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
The territory the US bought from France in 1803
What is the Louisiana Purchase?