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What is the supreme law of the land? - Answer: The Constitution. What does the constitution do? - Answer: Sets up the government, defines the government, and protects basic rights of Americans. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words? - Answer: We the people. What is an amendment? - Answer: A change(to the constitution) and an addition(to the constitution). What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution? - Answer: The Bill of Rights. What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment? - Answer: Speech, religion, assembly, press, and petition the government. How many amendments does the Constitution have? - Answer: 27. What did the Declaration of Independence do? - Answer: Announced our independence from Great Britain. What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence? - Answer: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What is freedom of religion? - Answer: You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion. What is the economic system in the United States? - Answer: Capitalist economy, market economy. What is the "rule of law"? - Answer: No one is above the law, everyone must follow the law. Name one branch or part of the government. - Answer: Congress, legislative, president, executive, the courts, or judicial. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful? - Answer: Checks and balances, separation of powers. Who is in charge of the executive branch? - Answer: The president. Who makes federal laws? - Answer: Congress, senate and house, legislature. What are the two parts of the U.S. congress? - Answer: The senate and house of representatives. How many U.S. senators are there? - Answer: 100. We elect a U.S. senator for how many years? - Answer: 6. Who is one of your state's U.S. senators now? - Answer: Rand Paul. The House of Representatives has how many voting members? - Answer: 435.
Who vetoes bills? - Answer: The president. What does the president's cabinet do? - Answer: Advises the president. What are two cabinet-level positions? - Answer: Secretary of commerce, secretary of agriculture. What does the judicial branch do? - Answer: Reviews the laws, decides if the law is constitutional or not. What is the highest court in the U.S.? - Answer: The Supreme Court. How many justices are on the supreme court? - Answer: 9. Who is the chief justice of the U.S. now? - Answer: John Roberts. Under our constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of the federal government? - Answer: To print money, to declare war, to create an army, to make treaties. Under our constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states? - Answer: Provide schooling and education, provide protection, provide safety. Who is the governor of your state now? - Answer: Matt Bevin. What is the capital of your state? - Answer: Frankfort.
What are the two major political parties in the U.S.? - Answer: Democratic and Republican. What is the political party of the president now? - Answer: Republican party. What is the name of the speaker of the house of representatives now? - Answer: Paul D. Ryan. There are 4 amendments to the constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them. - Answer: Citizens 18 and older can vote, you don't have to pay to vote, any citizen can vote, a male citizen of any race can vote. What is one responsibility that is only for U.S citizens? - Answer: Serve on a jury and vote in a federal election. Name one right only for the U.S. citizens? - Answer: Vote in a federal election and run for federal office. What are two rights of everyone living in the U.S.? - Answer: Freedom of religion and the right to bear arms. What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance? - Answer: The U.S and the flag. What is one promise you make when you become a U.S citizen? - Answer: Give up loyalty to other countries. How old do citizens have to be to vote for president? - Answer: 18. What are two ways americans can participate in their democracy? - Answer: Vote, join a political party.
The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers. - Answer: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Publius. What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for? - Answer: U.S. diplomat, oldest member of the Constitutional Convention, first Postmaster General of the U.S. Who is the "Father of Our Country"? - Answer: George Washington. Who was the first president? - Answer: George Washington. What territory did the U.S. buy from France in 1803? - Answer: The Louisiana Territory. Name one war fought by the U.S. in the 1800s. - Answer: War of 1812, Mexican-American war, Civil war, Spanish-American War. Name the U.S war between the North and the South. - Answer: The Civil War. Name one problem that led to the Civil War. - Answer: Slavery, economic reasons, states' rights. What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did? - Answer: Emancipation proclamation, freed the slaves, saved the Union, led the U.S. during the Civil War. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? - Answer: Freed the slaves. What did Susan B. Anthony do? - Answer: Fought for women and civil rights. Name one war fought by the U.S. in the 1900s. - Answer: World War 1, World War 11, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War.
Who was the president during World War 1? - Answer: Woodrow Wilson. Who was the president during the Great Depression and World War 11? - Answer: Franklin Roosevelt. Who did the U.S. fight in World War 11? - Answer: Japan, Germany, and Italy. Before he was president, Eisenhower was a general. What was was he in? - Answer: World War 11 During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the U.S.? - Answer: Communism. What movement tried to end racial discrimination? - Answer: The Civil rights movement. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do? - Answer: Fought for civil rights, worked for equality for all Americans. What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the U.S.? - Answer: Terrorists attacked the U.S. Name one American Indian tribe in the U.S. - Answer: Cherokee, Navajo, Sioux, Chippewa, Pueblo, Iroquois. Name one of the two longest rivers in the U.S. - Answer: Missouri River and Mississippi River. What ocean is on the West Coast of the U.S.? - Answer: Pacific Ocean.
