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Question 1

What is the supreme law of the land

Answer 1

The constitution

Question 2

What does the constitution do?

Answer 2

Set up the government

Question 3

The idea of the self-government is the first three words

Answer 3

we the people

Question 4

What is the amendant?

Answer 4

A change to the constitution

Question 5

What do we call the first 10 amendments to the constitution?

Answer 5

the bill of rights

Question 6

What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?

Answer 6

Speech

Question 7

How many amendments does the constitution have

Answer 7

27

Question 8

What did the Declaration of Independence do?

Answer 8

announced the independence from Great Britain

Question 9

What are the two rights in the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 9

Life - Liberty

Question 10

What is freedom of religion?

Answer 10

you can practice any religion or no religion at all

Question 11

What is the economic system in the United States?*

Answer 11

market economy - capitalist

Question 12

What is the “rule of law”?

Answer 12

Everyone must obey the law

Question 13

Name one branch or part of the government. *

Answer 13

President

Question 14

What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?

Answer 14

Check and balances

Question 15

Who is in charge of the executive branch?

Answer 15

The president

Question 16

Who makes federal laws?

Answer 16

Senate and House of representatives

Question 17

What are the two parts of the U.S.
Congress? *

Answer 17

Senate and House of representatives

Question 18

We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?

Answer 18

6

Question 19

Who is one of your state’s U.S. Senators now?*

Answer 19

Tammy Duckworth

Question 20

The House of Representatives has how many voting members?

Answer 20

435

Question 21

How many us senators are there?

Answer 21

100

Question 22

What does the Judicial branch do?

Answer 22

Review Laws

Question 23

How many justices are in the supreme court?

Answer 23

9

Question 24

Chief justice

Answer 24

Maureen O’connor

Question 25

What is one power of the federal government?

Answer 25

Declare war

Question 26

What is one power of the state?

Answer 26

provide schooling and education

Question 27

Speaker of the house

Answer 27

Nancy pelosi

Question 28

one responsibility that is only for US citizenship

Answer 28

Serve on a jury

Question 29

Name one right only for u citizens

Answer 29

vote in a federal election

Question 30

What are two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy?

Answer 30

Join a civil group - vote

Question 31

What is one reason that colonist came to amerika?

Answer 31

Freedom

Question 32

Why did the colonist fight the British?

Answer 32

because of high taxes

Question 33

Who wrote the declaration of Independence?

Answer 33

Thomas Jefferson

Question 34

Independance?

Answer 34

July 4 1776

Question 35

What happened at the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 35

The constitution was written

Question 36

When was the Constitution written?

Answer 36

1787

Question 37

The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.

Answer 37

James Madison

Question 38

What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?

Answer 38

Diplomatic

Question 39

Name one war fought in the 1800s.

Answer 39

1812

Question 40

Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.

Answer 40

Civil war

Question 41

Name one problem that lead to civil war

Answer 41

Slavery

Question 42

What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did? (Emancipation & proclamation)

Answer 42

Freed the slaves

Question 43

(Emancipation & proclamation)

Answer 43

Freed the slaves

Question 44

Name one war fought by USA in 1900s

Answer 44

World war one

Question 45

Who was President during World War I?

Answer 45

Woodrow Wilson

Question 46

Name one war fought by the USA in 1900s

Answer 46

World war one

Question 47

Who was President during World War II?

Answer 47

Rooselvet

Question 48

Who did the United States fight in World War 1?

Answer 48

Italy, German, Japan

Question 49

Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?

Answer 49

World war II

Question 50

During the Cold War, what was the n concern of the United States?

Answer 50

Communism

Question 51

What movement tried to end racial discrimination?

Answer 51

Civil rights

Question 52

What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?*

Answer 52

Fought for Civil rights