What is the supreme law of the land?
What does the Constitution do?
The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
How many amendments does the Constitution have?
Name one branch of the government.
What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
Who makes federal laws?
How many U.S. Senators are there?
We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?
The House of Representatives has how many voting members?
We elect a U.S. Representative for how many years?
We elect a President for how many years?
In what month do we vote for President?
If the President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
Who is the Commander in Chief of the military?
What is the highest court in the United States?
What are the two major political parties in the United States?
What is one responsibility that is only for United States citizens?
How old do citizens have to be to vote for President?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
Who is the 'Father of Our Country'?
Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?
Why does the flag have 50 stars?
What is the name of the national anthem?
What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?
What is freedom of religion?
What is the economic system in the United States?
What is the 'rule of law'?
Who is in charge of the executive branch?
What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?
Who does a U.S. Senator represent?
Why do some states have more Representatives than other states?
If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
Who signs bills to become laws?
Who vetoes bills?
What does the President's Cabinet do?
What is one Cabinet-level position?
What does the judicial branch do?
How many justices are on the Supreme Court?
What is one power of the federal government?
What is one power of the states?
There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them.
What is one right only for United States citizens?
What are two rights of everyone living in the United States?
What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance?
What is one promise you make when you become a United States citizen?
What are two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy?
When is the last day you can send in federal income tax forms?
When must all men register for the Selective Service?
What is one reason colonists came to America?
Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
Why did the colonists fight the British?
Name three of the original 13 states.
What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
When was the Constitution written?
The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?
What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.
Name one problem that led to the Civil War.
What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?
What did Susan B. Anthony do?
Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
Who was President during World War I?
Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?
Who did the United States fight in World War II?
Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?
During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?
What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?
What major event happened on September 11, 2001 in the United States?
Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.
Name one of the two longest rivers in the United States.
What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States?
Name one U.S. territory.
Name one state that borders Canada.
Name one state that borders Mexico.
What is the capital of the United States?
Where is the Statue of Liberty?
Why does the flag have 13 stripes?
When do we celebrate Independence Day?
Name one national U.S. holiday.
What is one promise you make in the Oath of Allegiance regarding foreign countries?
Who is in charge of the legislative branch?
Name one thing only the federal government can do.
What is one way Americans can show love for their country?
What is the name of the document Thomas Jefferson primarily authored in 1776?
What ended slavery in the United States?
Which Founding Father is known as the 'Father of the Constitution'?
How many states are in the United States?
Which state is the largest in land area?
What color are the stripes on the U.S. flag?
On what U.S. holiday do we honor those who died serving the country?
What do the stars on the U.S. flag stand for?