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American Government
1.What is the form of government of the United States?
Accepted answers: Republic; Constitution-based federal republic; Representative democracy
2.What is the supreme law of the land? *
Answer: the Constitution
3.Name one thing the U.S. Constitution does.
Accepted answers: Forms the government; Defines powers of government; Defines the parts of government; Protects the rights of the people
4.The U.S. Constitution starts with the words 'We the People.' What does 'We the People' mean?
Accepted answers: Self-government; Popular sovereignty; Consent of the governed; People should govern themselves; Social contract
5.How are changes made to the U.S. Constitution?
Accepted answers: Amendments; The amendment process
6.What does the Bill of Rights protect?
Accepted answers: The basic rights of Americans; The basic rights of people living in the United States
7.How many amendments does the U.S. Constitution have? *
Answer: Twenty-seven (27)
8.Why is the Declaration of Independence important?
Accepted answers: It says America is free from British control.; It says all people are created equal.; It identifies inherent rights.; It identifies individual freedoms.
9.What founding document said the American colonies were free from Britain?
Answer: Declaration of Independence
10.Name two important ideas from the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
Accepted answers: Equality; Liberty; Social contract; Natural rights; Limited government; Self-government
11.The words 'Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness' are in what founding document?
Answer: Declaration of Independence
12.What is the economic system of the United States? *
Accepted answers: Capitalism; Free market economy
13.What is the rule of law?
Accepted answers: Everyone must follow the law.; Leaders must obey the law.; Government must obey the law.; No one is above the law.
14.Many documents influenced the U.S. Constitution. Name one.
Accepted answers: Declaration of Independence; Articles of Confederation; Federalist Papers; Anti-Federalist Papers; Virginia Declaration of Rights; Fundamental Orders of Connecticut; Mayflower Compact; Iroquois Great Law of Peace
15.There are three branches of government. Why?
Accepted answers: So one part does not become too powerful; Checks and balances; Separation of powers
16.Name the three branches of government.
Accepted answers: Legislative, executive, and judicial; Congress, president, and the courts
17.The President of the United States is in charge of which branch of government?
Answer: Executive branch
18.What part of the federal government writes laws?
Accepted answers: U.S. Congress; U.S. or national legislature; Legislative branch
19.What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?
Answer: Senate and House of Representatives
20.Name one power of the U.S. Congress. *
Accepted answers: Writes laws; Declares war; Makes the federal budget
21.How many U.S. senators are there?
Answer: One hundred (100)
22.How long is a term for a U.S. senator?
Answer: Six (6) years
23.Who is one of your state's U.S. senators now?
Answer: Answers will vary by state.
Find your state's current U.S. senators at uscis.gov/citizenship/testupdates.
24.How many voting members are in the House of Representatives?
Answer: Four hundred thirty-five (435)
25.How long is a term for a member of the House of Representatives?
Answer: Two (2) years
26.Why do U.S. representatives serve shorter terms than U.S. senators?
Answer: To more closely follow public opinion
27.How many senators does each state have?
Answer: Two (2)
28.Why does each state have two senators?
Accepted answers: Equal representation for small states; The Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise)
29.Name your U.S. representative.
Answer: Answers will vary by congressional district.
Find your current U.S. representative at uscis.gov/citizenship/testupdates.
30.What is the name of the Speaker of the House of Representatives now? *
Answer: Mike Johnson
Checked on 13 November 2026. This answer can change. Check uscis.gov/citizenship/testupdates before your interview.
31.Who does a U.S. senator represent?
Accepted answers: Citizens of their state; People of their state
32.Who elects U.S. senators?
Answer: Citizens from their state
33.Who does a member of the House of Representatives represent?
Accepted answers: Citizens in their congressional district; People in their district
34.Who elects members of the House of Representatives?
Answer: Citizens from their congressional district
35.Some states have more representatives than other states. Why?
Accepted answers: Because of the state's population; Because they have more people; Because some states have more people
36.The President of the United States is elected for how many years? *
Answer: Four (4) years
37.The President of the United States can serve only two terms. Why?
Accepted answers: Because of the 22nd Amendment; To keep the president from becoming too powerful
38.What is the name of the President of the United States now? *
Accepted answers: Donald Trump; Donald J. Trump
Checked on 13 November 2026. This answer can change. Check uscis.gov/citizenship/testupdates before your interview.
39.What is the name of the Vice President of the United States now? *
Accepted answers: JD Vance; J.D. Vance
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40.If the president can no longer serve, who becomes president?
Answer: The Vice President of the United States
41.Name one power of the president.
Accepted answers: Signs bills into law; Vetoes bills; Enforces laws; Commander in Chief of the military; Chief diplomat; Appoints federal judges
42.Who is Commander in Chief of the U.S. military?
Answer: The President of the United States
43.Who signs bills to become laws?
Answer: The President of the United States
44.Who vetoes bills? *
Answer: The President of the United States
45.Who appoints federal judges?
Answer: The President of the United States
46.The executive branch has many parts. Name one.
Accepted answers: President of the United States; Cabinet; Federal departments and agencies
47.What does the President's Cabinet do?
Answer: Advises the President of the United States
48.What are two Cabinet-level positions?
Accepted answers: Attorney General; Secretary of Agriculture; Secretary of Commerce; Secretary of Defense; Secretary of Education; Secretary of Energy; Secretary of Health and Human Services; Secretary of Homeland Security; Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Secretary of the Interior; Secretary of Labor; Secretary of State; Secretary of Transportation; Secretary of the Treasury; Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Vice President; Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; Administrator of the Small Business Administration; Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Director of National Intelligence; United States Trade Representative
49.Why is the Electoral College important?
Accepted answers: It decides who is elected president.; It provides a compromise between the popular election of the president and congressional selection.
50.What is one part of the judicial branch?
Accepted answers: Supreme Court; Federal Courts
51.What does the judicial branch do?
Accepted answers: Reviews laws; Explains laws; Resolves disputes about the law; Decides if a law goes against the U.S. Constitution
52.What is the highest court in the United States? *
Answer: Supreme Court
53.How many seats are on the Supreme Court?
Answer: Nine (9)
54.How many Supreme Court justices are usually needed to decide a case?
Answer: Five (5)
55.How long do Supreme Court justices serve?
Accepted answers: For life; Lifetime appointment; Until retirement
56.Supreme Court justices serve for life. Why?
Accepted answers: To be independent of politics; To limit outside political influence
57.Who is the Chief Justice of the United States now?
Accepted answers: John Roberts; John G. Roberts, Jr.
Checked on 13 November 2026. This answer can change. Check uscis.gov/citizenship/testupdates before your interview.
58.Name one power that is only for the federal government.
Accepted answers: Print paper money; Mint coins; Declare war; Create an army; Make treaties; Set foreign policy
59.Name one power that is only for the states.
Accepted answers: Provide schooling and education; Provide protection (police); Provide safety (fire departments); Give a driver's license; Approve zoning and land use
60.What is the purpose of the 10th Amendment?
Answer: It states that the powers not given to the federal government belong to the states or to the people.
61.Who is the governor of your state now? *
Answer: Answers will vary by state.
Check your state government's website for your current governor.
62.What is the capital of your state?
Answer: Answers will vary by state.
Check your state government's website for your state capital.
63.There are four amendments to the U.S. Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them.
Accepted answers: Citizens eighteen (18) and older can vote.; You don't have to pay a poll tax to vote.; Any citizen can vote. Women and men can vote.; A male citizen of any race can vote.
64.Who can vote in federal elections, run for federal office, and serve on a jury in the United States?
Accepted answers: Citizens; Citizens of the United States; U.S. citizens
65.What are three rights of everyone living in the United States?
Accepted answers: Freedom of expression; Freedom of speech; Freedom of assembly; Freedom to petition the government; Freedom of religion; The right to bear arms
66.What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance? *
Accepted answers: The United States; The flag
67.Name two promises that new citizens make in the Oath of Allegiance.
Accepted answers: Give up loyalty to other countries; Defend the U.S. Constitution; Obey the laws of the United States; Serve in the military if needed; Serve the nation if needed; Be loyal to the United States
68.How can people become United States citizens?
Accepted answers: Be born in the United States, under the conditions set by the 14th Amendment; Naturalize; Derive citizenship under conditions set by Congress
69.What are two examples of civic participation in the United States?
Accepted answers: Vote; Run for office; Join a political party; Help with a campaign; Join a civic group; Join a community group; Give an elected official your opinion on an issue; Contact elected officials; Support or oppose an issue or policy; Write to a newspaper
70.What is one way Americans can serve their country?
Accepted answers: Vote; Pay taxes; Obey the law; Serve in the military; Run for office; Work for local, state, or federal government
71.Why is it important to pay federal taxes?
Accepted answers: Required by law; All people pay to fund the federal government; Required by the U.S. Constitution (16th Amendment); Civic duty
72.It is important for all men age 18 through 25 to register for the Selective Service. Name one reason why.
Accepted answers: Required by law; Civic duty; Makes the draft fair, if needed
American History
73.The colonists came to America for many reasons. Name one.
Accepted answers: Freedom; Political liberty; Religious freedom; Economic opportunity; Escape persecution
74.Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived? *
Accepted answers: American Indians; Native Americans
75.What group of people was taken and sold as slaves?
Accepted answers: Africans; People from Africa
76.What war did the Americans fight to win independence from Britain?
Accepted answers: American Revolution; The American Revolutionary War; War for American Independence
77.Name one reason why the Americans declared independence from Britain.
Accepted answers: High taxes; Taxation without representation; British soldiers stayed in Americans' houses; They did not have self-government; Boston Massacre; Boston Tea Party; Stamp Act; Sugar Act; Townshend Acts; Intolerable Acts
78.Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? *
Accepted answers: Thomas Jefferson; Jefferson
79.When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
Answer: July 4, 1776
80.The American Revolution had many important events. Name one.
Accepted answers: Battle of Bunker Hill; Declaration of Independence; Washington Crossing the Delaware (Battle of Trenton); Battle of Saratoga; Valley Forge Encampment; Battle of Yorktown; British surrender at Yorktown
81.There were 13 original states. Name five.
Accepted answers: New Hampshire; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Connecticut; New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Delaware; Maryland; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; Georgia
82.What founding document was written in 1787?
Answer: U.S. Constitution
83.The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
Accepted answers: James Madison; Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; Publius
84.Why were the Federalist Papers important?
Accepted answers: They helped people understand the U.S. Constitution.; They supported passing the U.S. Constitution.
85.Benjamin Franklin is famous for many things. Name one.
Accepted answers: Founded the first free public libraries; First Postmaster General of the United States; Helped write the Declaration of Independence; Inventor; U.S. diplomat
86.George Washington is famous for many things. Name one. *
Accepted answers: Father of Our Country; First president of the United States; General of the Continental Army; President of the Constitutional Convention
87.Thomas Jefferson is famous for many things. Name one.
Accepted answers: Writer of the Declaration of Independence; Third president of the United States; Doubled the size of the United States (Louisiana Purchase); First Secretary of State; Founded the University of Virginia; Writer of the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom
88.James Madison is famous for many things. Name one.
Accepted answers: Father of the Constitution; Fourth president of the United States; President during the War of 1812; One of the writers of the Federalist Papers
89.Alexander Hamilton is famous for many things. Name one.
Accepted answers: First Secretary of the Treasury; One of the writers of the Federalist Papers; Helped establish the First Bank of the United States; Aide to General George Washington; Member of the Continental Congress
90.What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
Accepted answers: Louisiana Territory; Louisiana
91.Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.
Accepted answers: War of 1812; Mexican-American War; Civil War; Spanish-American War
92.Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.
Answer: The Civil War
93.The Civil War had many important events. Name one.
Accepted answers: Battle of Fort Sumter; Emancipation Proclamation; Battle of Vicksburg; Battle of Gettysburg; Sherman's March; Surrender at Appomattox; Battle of Antietam; Lincoln was assassinated.
94.Abraham Lincoln is famous for many things. Name one. *
Accepted answers: Freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation); Saved the Union; Led the United States during the Civil War; 16th president of the United States; Delivered the Gettysburg Address
95.What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Accepted answers: Freed the slaves; Freed slaves in the Confederacy; Freed slaves in the Confederate states; Freed slaves in most Southern states
96.What U.S. war ended slavery?
Answer: The Civil War
97.What amendment says all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are U.S. citizens?
Answer: 14th Amendment
98.When did all men get the right to vote?
Accepted answers: After the Civil War; During Reconstruction; With the 15th Amendment; 1870
99.Name one leader of the women's rights movement in the 1800s.
Accepted answers: Susan B. Anthony; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Sojourner Truth; Harriet Tubman; Lucretia Mott; Lucy Stone
100.Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
Accepted answers: World War I; World War II; Korean War; Vietnam War; Persian Gulf War
101.Why did the United States enter World War I?
Accepted answers: Because Germany attacked U.S. civilian ships; To support the Allied Powers (England, France, Italy, and Russia); To oppose the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria)
102.When did all women get the right to vote?
Accepted answers: 1920; After World War I; With the 19th Amendment
103.What was the Great Depression?
Answer: Longest economic recession in modern history
104.When did the Great Depression start?
Accepted answers: The Great Crash of 1929; Stock market crash of 1929
105.Who was president during the Great Depression and World War II?
Accepted answers: Franklin Roosevelt; FDR
106.Why did the United States enter World War II?
Accepted answers: Bombing of Pearl Harbor; Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor; To support the Allied Powers (England, France, and Russia); To oppose the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan)
107.Dwight Eisenhower is famous for many things. Name one.
Accepted answers: General during World War II; President at the end of the Korean War; 34th president of the United States; Signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 (Created the Interstate System)
108.Who was the United States' main rival during the Cold War?
Accepted answers: Soviet Union; USSR; Russia
109.During the Cold War, what was one main concern of the United States?
Accepted answers: Communism; Nuclear war
110.Why did the United States enter the Korean War?
Answer: To stop the spread of communism
111.Why did the United States enter the Vietnam War?
Answer: To stop the spread of communism
112.What did the civil rights movement do?
Answer: Fought to end racial discrimination
113.Martin Luther King, Jr. is famous for many things. Name one. *
Accepted answers: Fought for civil rights; Worked for equality for all Americans; Worked to ensure that people would not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character
114.Why did the United States enter the Persian Gulf War?
Answer: To force the Iraqi military from Kuwait
115.What major event happened on September 11, 2001 in the United States? *
Accepted answers: Terrorists attacked the United States; Terrorists took over two planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York City; Terrorists took over a plane and crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; Terrorists took over a plane originally aimed at Washington, D.C., and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania
116.Name one U.S. military conflict after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Accepted answers: Global War on Terror; War in Afghanistan; War in Iraq
117.Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.
Accepted answers: Apache; Blackfeet; Cayuga; Cherokee; Cheyenne; Chippewa; Choctaw; Creek; Crow; Hopi; Huron; Inupiat; Lakota; Mohawk; Mohegan; Navajo; Oneida; Onondaga; Pueblo; Seminole; Seneca; Shawnee; Sioux; Teton; Tuscarora
118.Name one example of an American innovation.
Accepted answers: Light bulb; Automobile; Skyscrapers; Airplane; Assembly line; Landing on the moon; Integrated circuit
Symbols and Holidays
119.What is the capital of the United States?
Answer: Washington, D.C.
120.Where is the Statue of Liberty?
Accepted answers: New York Harbor; Liberty Island; New Jersey; Near New York City; On the Hudson River
121.Why does the flag have 13 stripes? *
Accepted answers: Because there were 13 original colonies; Because the stripes represent the original colonies
122.Why does the flag have 50 stars?
Accepted answers: Because there is one star for each state; Because each star represents a state; Because there are 50 states
123.What is the name of the national anthem?
Answer: The Star-Spangled Banner
124.The Nation's first motto was 'E Pluribus Unum.' What does that mean?
Accepted answers: Out of many, one; We all become one
125.What is Independence Day?
Accepted answers: A holiday to celebrate U.S. independence from Britain; The country's birthday
126.Name three national U.S. holidays. *
Accepted answers: New Year's Day; Martin Luther King Jr. Day; Presidents Day; Memorial Day; Juneteenth; Independence Day; Labor Day; Columbus Day; Veterans Day; Thanksgiving Day; Christmas Day
127.What is Memorial Day?
Answer: A holiday to honor soldiers who died in military service
128.What is Veterans Day?
Accepted answers: A holiday to honor people in the U.S. military; A holiday to honor people who have served in the U.S. military
Answer key
American Government
- 1. Republic; Constitution-based federal republic; Representative democracy
- 2. the Constitution
- 3. Forms the government; Defines powers of government; Defines the parts of government; Protects the rights of the people
- 4. Self-government; Popular sovereignty; Consent of the governed; People should govern themselves; Social contract
- 5. Amendments; The amendment process
- 6. The basic rights of Americans; The basic rights of people living in the United States
- 7. Twenty-seven (27)
- 8. It says America is free from British control.; It says all people are created equal.; It identifies inherent rights.; It identifies individual freedoms.
- 9. Declaration of Independence
- 10. Equality; Liberty; Social contract; Natural rights; Limited government; Self-government
- 11. Declaration of Independence
- 12. Capitalism; Free market economy
- 13. Everyone must follow the law.; Leaders must obey the law.; Government must obey the law.; No one is above the law.
- 14. Declaration of Independence; Articles of Confederation; Federalist Papers; Anti-Federalist Papers; Virginia Declaration of Rights; Fundamental Orders of Connecticut; Mayflower Compact; Iroquois Great Law of Peace
- 15. So one part does not become too powerful; Checks and balances; Separation of powers
- 16. Legislative, executive, and judicial; Congress, president, and the courts
- 17. Executive branch
- 18. U.S. Congress; U.S. or national legislature; Legislative branch
- 19. Senate and House of Representatives
- 20. Writes laws; Declares war; Makes the federal budget
- 21. One hundred (100)
- 22. Six (6) years
- 23. Answers will vary by state. Find your state's current U.S. senators at uscis.gov/citizenship/testupdates.
- 24. Four hundred thirty-five (435)
- 25. Two (2) years
- 26. To more closely follow public opinion
- 27. Two (2)
- 28. Equal representation for small states; The Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise)
- 29. Answers will vary by congressional district. Find your current U.S. representative at uscis.gov/citizenship/testupdates.
- 30. Mike Johnson Checked on 13 November 2026. This answer can change. Check uscis.gov/citizenship/testupdates before your interview.
- 31. Citizens of their state; People of their state
- 32. Citizens from their state
- 33. Citizens in their congressional district; People in their district
- 34. Citizens from their congressional district
- 35. Because of the state's population; Because they have more people; Because some states have more people
- 36. Four (4) years
- 37. Because of the 22nd Amendment; To keep the president from becoming too powerful
- 38. Donald Trump; Donald J. Trump Checked on 13 November 2026. This answer can change. Check uscis.gov/citizenship/testupdates before your interview.
- 39. JD Vance; J.D. Vance Checked on 13 November 2026. This answer can change. Check uscis.gov/citizenship/testupdates before your interview.
- 40. The Vice President of the United States
- 41. Signs bills into law; Vetoes bills; Enforces laws; Commander in Chief of the military; Chief diplomat; Appoints federal judges
- 42. The President of the United States
- 43. The President of the United States
- 44. The President of the United States
- 45. The President of the United States
- 46. President of the United States; Cabinet; Federal departments and agencies
- 47. Advises the President of the United States
- 48. Attorney General; Secretary of Agriculture; Secretary of Commerce; Secretary of Defense; Secretary of Education; Secretary of Energy; Secretary of Health and Human Services; Secretary of Homeland Security; Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Secretary of the Interior; Secretary of Labor; Secretary of State; Secretary of Transportation; Secretary of the Treasury; Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Vice President; Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; Administrator of the Small Business Administration; Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Director of National Intelligence; United States Trade Representative
- 49. It decides who is elected president.; It provides a compromise between the popular election of the president and congressional selection.
- 50. Supreme Court; Federal Courts
- 51. Reviews laws; Explains laws; Resolves disputes about the law; Decides if a law goes against the U.S. Constitution
- 52. Supreme Court
- 53. Nine (9)
- 54. Five (5)
- 55. For life; Lifetime appointment; Until retirement
- 56. To be independent of politics; To limit outside political influence
- 57. John Roberts; John G. Roberts, Jr. Checked on 13 November 2026. This answer can change. Check uscis.gov/citizenship/testupdates before your interview.
- 58. Print paper money; Mint coins; Declare war; Create an army; Make treaties; Set foreign policy
- 59. Provide schooling and education; Provide protection (police); Provide safety (fire departments); Give a driver's license; Approve zoning and land use
- 60. It states that the powers not given to the federal government belong to the states or to the people.
- 61. Answers will vary by state. Check your state government's website for your current governor.
- 62. Answers will vary by state. Check your state government's website for your state capital.
- 63. Citizens eighteen (18) and older can vote.; You don't have to pay a poll tax to vote.; Any citizen can vote. Women and men can vote.; A male citizen of any race can vote.
- 64. Citizens; Citizens of the United States; U.S. citizens
- 65. Freedom of expression; Freedom of speech; Freedom of assembly; Freedom to petition the government; Freedom of religion; The right to bear arms
- 66. The United States; The flag
- 67. Give up loyalty to other countries; Defend the U.S. Constitution; Obey the laws of the United States; Serve in the military if needed; Serve the nation if needed; Be loyal to the United States
- 68. Be born in the United States, under the conditions set by the 14th Amendment; Naturalize; Derive citizenship under conditions set by Congress
- 69. Vote; Run for office; Join a political party; Help with a campaign; Join a civic group; Join a community group; Give an elected official your opinion on an issue; Contact elected officials; Support or oppose an issue or policy; Write to a newspaper
- 70. Vote; Pay taxes; Obey the law; Serve in the military; Run for office; Work for local, state, or federal government
- 71. Required by law; All people pay to fund the federal government; Required by the U.S. Constitution (16th Amendment); Civic duty
- 72. Required by law; Civic duty; Makes the draft fair, if needed
American History
- 73. Freedom; Political liberty; Religious freedom; Economic opportunity; Escape persecution
- 74. American Indians; Native Americans
- 75. Africans; People from Africa
- 76. American Revolution; The American Revolutionary War; War for American Independence
- 77. High taxes; Taxation without representation; British soldiers stayed in Americans' houses; They did not have self-government; Boston Massacre; Boston Tea Party; Stamp Act; Sugar Act; Townshend Acts; Intolerable Acts
- 78. Thomas Jefferson; Jefferson
- 79. July 4, 1776
- 80. Battle of Bunker Hill; Declaration of Independence; Washington Crossing the Delaware (Battle of Trenton); Battle of Saratoga; Valley Forge Encampment; Battle of Yorktown; British surrender at Yorktown
- 81. New Hampshire; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Connecticut; New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Delaware; Maryland; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; Georgia
- 82. U.S. Constitution
- 83. James Madison; Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; Publius
- 84. They helped people understand the U.S. Constitution.; They supported passing the U.S. Constitution.
- 85. Founded the first free public libraries; First Postmaster General of the United States; Helped write the Declaration of Independence; Inventor; U.S. diplomat
- 86. Father of Our Country; First president of the United States; General of the Continental Army; President of the Constitutional Convention
- 87. Writer of the Declaration of Independence; Third president of the United States; Doubled the size of the United States (Louisiana Purchase); First Secretary of State; Founded the University of Virginia; Writer of the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom
- 88. Father of the Constitution; Fourth president of the United States; President during the War of 1812; One of the writers of the Federalist Papers
- 89. First Secretary of the Treasury; One of the writers of the Federalist Papers; Helped establish the First Bank of the United States; Aide to General George Washington; Member of the Continental Congress
- 90. Louisiana Territory; Louisiana
- 91. War of 1812; Mexican-American War; Civil War; Spanish-American War
- 92. The Civil War
- 93. Battle of Fort Sumter; Emancipation Proclamation; Battle of Vicksburg; Battle of Gettysburg; Sherman's March; Surrender at Appomattox; Battle of Antietam; Lincoln was assassinated.
- 94. Freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation); Saved the Union; Led the United States during the Civil War; 16th president of the United States; Delivered the Gettysburg Address
- 95. Freed the slaves; Freed slaves in the Confederacy; Freed slaves in the Confederate states; Freed slaves in most Southern states
- 96. The Civil War
- 97. 14th Amendment
- 98. After the Civil War; During Reconstruction; With the 15th Amendment; 1870
- 99. Susan B. Anthony; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Sojourner Truth; Harriet Tubman; Lucretia Mott; Lucy Stone
- 100. World War I; World War II; Korean War; Vietnam War; Persian Gulf War
- 101. Because Germany attacked U.S. civilian ships; To support the Allied Powers (England, France, Italy, and Russia); To oppose the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria)
- 102. 1920; After World War I; With the 19th Amendment
- 103. Longest economic recession in modern history
- 104. The Great Crash of 1929; Stock market crash of 1929
- 105. Franklin Roosevelt; FDR
- 106. Bombing of Pearl Harbor; Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor; To support the Allied Powers (England, France, and Russia); To oppose the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan)
- 107. General during World War II; President at the end of the Korean War; 34th president of the United States; Signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 (Created the Interstate System)
- 108. Soviet Union; USSR; Russia
- 109. Communism; Nuclear war
- 110. To stop the spread of communism
- 111. To stop the spread of communism
- 112. Fought to end racial discrimination
- 113. Fought for civil rights; Worked for equality for all Americans; Worked to ensure that people would not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character
- 114. To force the Iraqi military from Kuwait
- 115. Terrorists attacked the United States; Terrorists took over two planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York City; Terrorists took over a plane and crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; Terrorists took over a plane originally aimed at Washington, D.C., and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania
- 116. Global War on Terror; War in Afghanistan; War in Iraq
- 117. Apache; Blackfeet; Cayuga; Cherokee; Cheyenne; Chippewa; Choctaw; Creek; Crow; Hopi; Huron; Inupiat; Lakota; Mohawk; Mohegan; Navajo; Oneida; Onondaga; Pueblo; Seminole; Seneca; Shawnee; Sioux; Teton; Tuscarora
- 118. Light bulb; Automobile; Skyscrapers; Airplane; Assembly line; Landing on the moon; Integrated circuit
Symbols and Holidays
- 119. Washington, D.C.
- 120. New York Harbor; Liberty Island; New Jersey; Near New York City; On the Hudson River
- 121. Because there were 13 original colonies; Because the stripes represent the original colonies
- 122. Because there is one star for each state; Because each star represents a state; Because there are 50 states
- 123. The Star-Spangled Banner
- 124. Out of many, one; We all become one
- 125. A holiday to celebrate U.S. independence from Britain; The country's birthday
- 126. New Year's Day; Martin Luther King Jr. Day; Presidents Day; Memorial Day; Juneteenth; Independence Day; Labor Day; Columbus Day; Veterans Day; Thanksgiving Day; Christmas Day
- 127. A holiday to honor soldiers who died in military service
- 128. A holiday to honor people in the U.S. military; A holiday to honor people who have served in the U.S. military
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