Citizenship+Questions

1. What is the supreme law of the land? 2. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words? 3. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution? 4. What did the [|Declaration of Independence] do? 5. What is the economic system in the United States? 6. Name one branch or part of the government. 7. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful? 8. Who is in charge of the [|executive branch] ? What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress? 9. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress? 10. How many U.S. Senators are there? 11. We elect a U.S. Representative for how many years? 12. Who does a U.S. Senator represent? 13. Why do some states have more Representatives than other states? 14. We elect a President for how many years? 15. What is the name of the Vice President of the United States now? 16. What does the [|judicial branch] do? 17. What is the highest court in the United States? 18. How many justices are on the Supreme Court? 19. Who is the [|Chief Justice of the United States] ? 20. What is the capital of your state? 21. What is the name of the [|Speaker of the House of Representatives] now? 22. How old do citizens have to be to vote for President? 23. What is one reason colonists came to America? 24. Who wrote the [|Declaration of Independence] ? 25. When was the [|Declaration of Independence] adopted? 26. There were 13 original states. Name three. 27. What happened at the [|Constitutional Convention] ? 28. When was the Constitution written? 29. Who is the "Father of Our Country"? 30. What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803? 31. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s. 32. Name the U.S. war between the North and the South. 33. Name one problem that led to the Civil War. 34. What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?* 35. What did the [|Emancipation Proclamation] do? 36. What did Susan B. Anthony do? 37. Who was President during World War I? 38. Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II? 39. Who did the United States fight in World War II? 40. Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in? 41. During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States? 42. What movement tried to end racial discrimination? 43. Name one American Indian tribe in the United States. 44. Name one of the two longest rivers in the United States. 45. What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States? 46. What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States? 47. Name one U.S. territory. 48. Name one state that borders Canada. 49. Name one state that borders Mexico. 50. What is the capital of the United States?* 51. Where is the Statue of Liberty?* 52. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do? 53. Why does the flag have 13 stripes? 54. Why does the flag have 50 stars?* 55. What is the name of the national anthem? 54. When do we celebrate Independence Day?