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04/30/2016

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Red, White, And Blue
Definition
1. What are the colors of our Flag?
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Fifty
Definition
2. How many stares are there on our Flag?
Term
White
Definition
3. What color are the stars on our Flag?
Term
One for each state in the union
Definition
4. What do the stares on the Flag mean?
Term
Thirteen
Definition
5. How many stripes are there on the Flag?
Term
Red And White
Definition
6. What colors are the stripes?
Term
The 13 original colonies
Definition
7. What do the stripes on the flag mean?
Term
Fifty (50)
Definition
8. How many stares are there in the union?
Term
Independence Day
Definition
9. What is the 4th of July?
Term
England/Great Britain
Definition
10. What country did we fight in the Revolutionary War?
Term
George Washington
Definition
11. Who was the First President of the United States?
Term
Barack Obama
Definition
12. Who is the president of the United States Today?
Term
Joe Biden
Definition
13. Who is the Vice-President of the United States today?
Term
Electoral College
Definition
14. Who elects the President of the United States?
Term
Vice-President
Definition
15. Who becomes President of the United States if the President should Die?
Term
4 Years
Definition
16. For how long do we elect the President?
Term
The Supreme Law of the Land
Definition
17. What is the Constitution?
Term
Yes
Definition
18. Can the Constitution be changed?
Term
Amendment
Definition
19. What do we call changes to the Constitution?
Term
27
Definition
20. How many Changes or Amendments are there in the Constitution?
Term
Three
Definition
21. How many branches are there in our government?
Term
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
Definition
22. What are the three branches of our government?
Term
Congress
Definition
23. What is the Legislative Branch of our government?
Term
Congress
Definition
24. Who makes the laws in the United States?
Term
Senate and House of Representatives
Definition
25. What is Congress?
Term
The People
Definition
26. Who elects Congress?
Term
100
Definition
27. How many senators are there in Congress?
Term
Mark Kirk and Dick Durbin
Definition
28. Name your two Illinois Senators?
Term
Six Years
Definition
29. How long do we elect each senator?
Term
435
Definition
30. How many Representatives are there in Congress?
Term
Two Years
Definition
31. For how long do we elect the Representatives?
Term
The President, Vice-President,Cabinet, And Department under the Cabinet Members
Definition
32. What is the Executive Branch of our Government?
Term
The Supreme Court
Definition
33. What is the Judiciary Branch of our government?
Term
To Interpret Laws
Definition
34. What are the duties of the Supreme Court?
Term
The First ten Amendment of the Constitution
Definition
35. What is the Bill of Rights?
Term
Springfield
Definition
36. What is the Capital of your State (Illinois)?
Term
Bruce Rauner
Definition
37. Who is the current governor of your state?
Term
Speaker of the House of Representative
Definition
38. Who becomes President of the United States, if the President and Vice-President should die?
Term
John G Roberts, Jr.
Definition
39. Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
Term
Thanksgiving
Definition
40. What holiday was celebrated for the first Colonist?
Term
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Definition
41. List the 13 original colonies.
Term
Patrick Henry
Definition
42. Who said "give me liberty or give me death"
Term
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Definition
43. Which countries were our enemies during World War 2?
Term
Alaska and Hawaii
Definition
44. What are the 49th and 50th states of the Union?
Term
Two
Definition
45. How many terms can the president serve?
Term
A Civil Right Leader
Definition
46. Who was Martin Luther King JR.?
Term
Natural born citizen, US resident for at least 14 years,At Least 35 years of age
Definition
47. According to the constitution, a person must meet certain requirements in order to become President. List the three requirements?
Term
Two for each State
Definition
48. Why are there 100 Senators in the Senate?
Term
President
Definition
49. Who selects the Supreme Court Justices?
Term
Nine
Definition
50. How many Supreme Court Justices are there?
Term
religious freedom
Definition
51. Why did the pilgrims come to America?
Term
Governor
Definition
52. What is the head executive of a state government called?
Term
Mayor
Definition
53. What is the head executive of a city government called?
Term
Thomas Jefferson
Definition
54. Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence?
Term
July 4, 1776
Definition
55. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
Term
That all men are crated equal
Definition
56. What is the basic belief of the Declaration of Independence?
Term
Star-Spangled Banner
Definition
57. What is the National Anthem of the United States?
Term
Francis Scott Key
Definition
58. Who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner
Term
The Bill of Rights
Definition
59. Where does the freedom of speech come from?
Term
18
Definition
60. What is the Minimum Voting age in the United States?
Term
The President
Definition
61. Who signs bills into laws
Term
The Supreme Court
Definition
62. What is the highest court in the United States?
Term
Abraham Lincon
Definition
63. Who was the President during the Civil war?
Term
Free many Slaves
Definition
64. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Term
The Cabinet
Definition
65. What special group advises the President?
Term
George Washington
Definition
66. Which President is called the "Father of our Country"?
Term
The American Indians
Definition
67. Who helped the pilgrims in America?
Term
Colonies
Definition
68. What were the 13 original states of the United States called?
Term
Speech, Press, Religion, Peaceful Assembly
Definition
69. Name the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights?
Term
The Congress of the U.S.
Definition
70. Who had the power to declare War?
Term
Repubilcan
Definition
71. What Kind of government does the United States have?
Term
Abraham Lincoln
Definition
72. Which President Freed the Slaves?
Term
1787
Definition
73. In what year was the Constitution writen?
Term
The Bill of Rights
Definition
74. What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called?
Term
For Countries to discuss and try to resolve world problems: to provide economic aid to many Countries
Definition
75. Name one Purpose for the United Nation?
Term
In the Capital of Washington D.C.
Definition
76. Where does the Congress meet?
Term
Everyone (citizens and non-citizens living in the U.S)
Definition
77. Whose right are guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?
Term
The Preamble
Definition
78. What is the introduction to the Constitution called?
Term
Obtain Federal Jobs; U.S. Passport; Petition for Close Relieves to come to the U.S. to live
Definition
79. Name the benefits of being Citizens of the United States?
Term
The Right to Vote
Definition
80. What is the most important right granted to the United States Citizens?
Term
The Place Were Congress meets
Definition
81. What is the United States Capital?
Term
The Presidents official home
Definition
82. What is the White house?
Term
Washington DC (1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW)
Definition
83. Where is the White House located?
Term
The President
Definition
84. Who Is the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Military?
Term
George Washington
Definition
85. Which President was the first Commander in Chief of the U.S. Military?
Term
November
Definition
86. What month do we vote for the President?
Term
January
Definition
87. In what month is the new President Inaugurated?
Term
There is NO limit
Definition
88. How many times may a senator be re-elected?
Term
There is NO limit
Definition
89. How many times may a Congress man be re-elected?
Term
Republican and Democrat
Definition
90. What is the two major political parties in the U.S. today?
Term
Fifty(50)
Definition
91. How many states are there in the United States?
Term
Wisconsin, India, Kentucky, Iowa,and Missouri
Definition
92. List the 5 states that borders Illinois?
Term
North America
Definition
93. What Continent do you live on?
Term
Mike Bost
Definition
94. Who is the House of Representative 12th District Illinois Representative?
Term
David Luechtefeld(R)
Definition
95. 58th Legislative District State Senator?
Term
Jerry Costello (D)
Definition
96. 116th District Representative?
Term
Bob Sutton
Definition
97. Mayor of Steeleville?
Term
Example: Cheryl Kuhlman
Definition
98. Your Full Name ?
Term
Cheryl Kulman
Steeleville Grade School
609 South Sparta Street
Steeleville, Illinois 62288
Definition
99. Your Complete address?
Term
Dr. Stephanie Mulholland
Definition
100. Superintendent of Steeleville Public Schools?
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