Principles of Democracy
The supreme law of the land.
What is the Constitution?
This mechanism stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What are Checks and Balances (or Separation of Powers)?
The minimum legal voting age for U.S. citizens in a presidential election.
What is 18?
The year the U.S. Constitution was written by the Founding Fathers.
What is 1787?
The number of stripes on the official U.S. flag.
What is 13?
The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution.
What are "We the People"?
The two distinct parts that make up the U.S. Congress.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
Name one responsibility that is reserved only for United States citizens.
What is serving on a jury (or voting in a federal election)?
The primary reason the colonists fought the British in the Revolutionary War.
What is high taxes without representation (or taxation without representation)?
The total number of stars featured on the U.S. flag and what they represent.
What is 50 stars representing the 50 states?
What we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The total number of voting members serving in the U.S. Senate.
What is 100?
Two rights guaranteed to everyone living in the U.S., regardless of citizenship status. There are more than 2. List 2.
What are Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Assembly, or the Right to Bear Arms?
The main goal or purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln.
What is freeing the slaves?
The official capital city of the United States.
What is Washington D.C.?
This principle states that everyone must follow the law, and no one is above it.
What is the Rule of Law?
If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, this official takes over.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
The date that marks the final deadline to submit federal individual income tax forms every year.
What is April 15th?
Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
Native Americans or American Indians
The two longest rivers in the United States.
What are the Missouri and the Mississippi Rivers?
The fundamental rights guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence.
What are Life, Liberty, or the Pursuit of Happiness?
The highest judicial authority in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
Age window when all men living in the U.S. are legally required to register for the Selective Service.
What is 18-26 years old?
The political movement that attempted to end racial discrimination and secure equal rights for all Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
The two things we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance.
What are the flag and the United States?