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100
The head of the executive branch of government.
Who is the President?
100
This level of government elects a mayor.
What is local?
100
One way that a person can become a citizen of the United States.
What is being born in the United States?
100
Paying taxes, obeying laws, and serving on a jury.
What are responsibilities of all U.S. citizens?
100
Money the government collects to pay for services.
What are taxes?
200
Wanted to find a short route by sea to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
The written plan for the nation's government.
What is the Constitution?
200
This important right helps us to elect our leaders.
What is the right to vote?
200
These are responsibilities of U.S. children.
What is to be educated, to learn how the U.S. government works, and to learn about the history of the United States?
200
A government document used to travel in foreign countries.
What is a passport?
300
They walked from Siberia to Alaska across the Bering Strait.
What are the first Americans?
300
This branch of government makes the nation's laws?
What is the legislative?
300
A passport gives citizens this right.
What is the right to travel in foreign countries?
300
Maintaining roads, building schools, and new parks are examples of these.
What are services paid for by taxes?
300
In Latin, this means "out of many, one.".
What is E Pluribus unum?
400
Sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on an expedition to discover what was on land that was purchased.
Who was President Thomas Jefferson?
400
This is how the United States Constitution can be changed.
What is an amendment approved by the states?
400
This extends all citizen's rights by guaranteeing freedoms such as the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of press.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
This makes sure that the government represents the will of the people.
What is voting?
400
These three things expanded the United States territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is signing treaties, buying land, and fighting wars?
500
These people have influenced the names of places across the country, helped our culture grow, and led to an appreciation of our differences.
Who are immigrants?
500
The type of government we have in the United States.
What is a republic?
500
The thirteenth amendment ended this in America after the Civil War.
What is slavery?
500
The responsibility citizens have to make decisions in a court of law.
What is serve on a jury?
500
These are three reasons that explorers and settlers came to North America.
What are spreading Christianity, finding gold and riches, and claiming land for their rulers?