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Recent Presidents
Recent Presidents
What number president was Donald Trump?
Donald Trump was the 45th president of the United States.
What is the name of the statue that symbolizes immigration and opportunity?
The Statue of Liberty
This document replaced the Articles of Confederation and made a stronger national government.
What is the Constitution?
What was Barack Obamas campaign speech trying to say?
His Campaign speech was trying to say how he wanted a more perfect union.
Lots of immigrants lived in ethnic neighborhoods called what?
Littles Italys, Chinatowns
This group of people met in 1787 in Philadelphia to fix the government and ended up creating the Constitution.
Who are the delegates at the Constitutional Convention?
What is the Affordable Care Act?
The ACA is where the government is trying to lower healthcare costs and expand Medicaid to more people.
Why were immigrants coming to America?
People were escaping poverty or religious persecution
This system divides power between the national government and the state governments.
What is federalism?
What is the Welfare system?
Welfare is when the government gives money to lower-income people so that they can pay for food, health care, and housing.
Because some families were forced to separate there, what was Ellis Island sometimes called?
The Island of Tears
These are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution that protect our basic rights and freedoms
What is the Bill of Rights?
When was the Clean Air Act Amendment passed?
The Clean Air Amendment was passed in November of 1990.
What act banned Chinese immigration in 1882?
The Chinese Exclusion Act
This system makes sure no branch of government becomes too powerful by limiting what each branch can do.
What are checks and balances?