Principles of Government
The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are those three words?
Answer: We the people.
Name one branch of the US Government.
Answers: Legislative Branch, Executive Branch, Judicial Branch.
How many justices are currently on the Supreme Court?
Answer: 9 Justices.
What are two rights given to everyone living in the United States?
Answers: Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom to petition the Government, Freedom of Religion, and the Right to Bear Arms.
What is one reason the colonists came to America?
Answers: Political freedom, they were fleeing religious persecution, and economic opportunities.
What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
Answers: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Press, Freedom to Petition the Government.
What are the two parts of the US Congress?
Answer: Congress & Senate.
Who is Commander in Chief and can sign & veto bills?
(Bonus +100 if you can name who that currently is!)
Answer: The President.
(Bonus: The current President is Joseph Biden (D)!)
What is one responsibility ONLY for US citizens?
Answers: Serve on a jury (Jury Duty), Vote in a Federal Election.
Before he was President, Dwight Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?
Answer: He was a general in World War II.
What is the economic system of the United States?
Answer: Capitalism OR mixed economy.
Who becomes President if both the President and Vice President can no longer serve?
(Bonus +150 if you can ALSO name who that currently is.)
Answer: The Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Bonus: The current Speaker is Kevin McCarthy (R)!)
The US Senate has how many voting members?
(Bonus +150 if you can tell me one of NH's current Senators!)
Answer: 100 Senators.
(Bonus: NH current senators are Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) & Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D)!)
There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them.
Answers: Allowed any male citizen to vote regardless of race (15th Amendment), Allowed any citizen to vote, regardless of gender (19th Amendment),You don’t have to pay a poll tax to vote (24th Amendment), Citizens 18 years or older are allowed to vote (26th Amendment)
During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?
Answer: Communism.
How many amendments does the Constitution have?
Answer: 27 amendments.
The House of Representatives has how many voting members?
(Bonus +200 if you can tell me one of NH's current representatives!)
Answer: 435 voting members.
(Bonus: NH current representatives are Chris Pappas (D) & Ann Kuster (D)!)
Name 2 Cabinet Positions.
Answer: Vice President, Attorney General, Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, the Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, the Treasury, and Veterans Affairs.
What are 2 ways that Americans can participate in their democracy?
Answers: Vote, join a political party, help with a campaign, join a civic group or a community group, give an elected official your opinion on an issue, call Senators & Representatives, publicly support or oppose an issue or policy, run for office, write to a newspaper
Name one Native American tribe in the US.
Answers: Cherokee, Navajo, Sioux, Chippewa, Choctaw, Pueblo, Arawak, Shawnee, Mohegan, Huron, Oneida, Lakota, Apache, Iroquois, Creek, Blackfeet, Seminole, Cheyenne, Crow, Teton, Hopi, and Inuit.
What is rule of law?
Answer: The law is clear, publicized, and stable and is applied evenly.
Who is the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
Answer: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states?
Answer: Provide schooling & education, provide protection (Police), provide safety (Fire Department), validate drivers licenses, and approve zoning & land use.
What is one promise you make when you become a United States citizen?
Answer: Promise to give up loyalty to other countries, defend the Constitution and its laws, obey the laws of the US, serve in the US military (if needed), serve the nation (if needed), & be loyal to the US.
What did Susan B. Anthony do?
Answers: Fought for women's rights, Fought for civil rights.