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About Civics Fundamentals: A Message from Judge Ginsburg
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Q1: What is the Supreme Law of the Land?
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Q2: What does the Constitution do?
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Q3: The idea of self-government is in the first 3 words of the Constitution. What are these words?
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Q4: What is an amendment?
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Q5: What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
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Q6: What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
Q7: How many amendments does the Constitution have?
Q8: What did the Declaration of Independence do?
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Q9: What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?
Q10: What is freedom of religion?
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Q11: What is the economic system of the United States?
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Q12: What is the rule of law?
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Q13: Name one branch or part of the government.
Q14: What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
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Q15: Who is in charge of the executive branch?
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Q16: Who makes federal laws?
Q17: What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?
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Q18: How many U.S. senators are there?
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Q19: We elect a U.S. senator for how many years?
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Q20: Who is one of your state's U.S. senators now?
Q21: The House of Representatives has how many voting members?
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Q22: We elect a U.S. representative for how many years?
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Q23: Name your U.S. representative.
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Q24: Who does a U.S. senator represent?
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Q25: Why do some states have more representatives than other states?
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Q26: We elect a president for how many years?
Q27: In what month do we vote for president?
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Q28: What is the name of the president of the United States now?
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Q29: What is the name of the vice president of the United States now?
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Q30: If the president can no longer serve, who becomes president?
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Q31: If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
Q32: Who is the Commander in Chief of the military?
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Q33: Who signs bills to become laws?
Q34: Who vetoes bills?
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Q35: What does the President’s Cabinet do?
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Q36: What are two Cabinet-level positions?
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Q37: What does the judicial branch do?
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Q38: What is the highest court in the United States?
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Q39: How many justices are on the Supreme Court?
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Q40: Who is the Chief Justice of the United States now?
Q41: What is one power of the federal government?
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Q42: What is one power of the states?
Q43: Who is the Governor of your state now?
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Q44: What is the capital of your state?
Q45: What are the two major political parties in the United States?
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Q46: What is the political party of the President now?
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Q47: What is the name of the speaker of the House of Representatives now?
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Q48: There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them.
Q49: What is one responsibility that is only for United States citizens?
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Q50: Name one right only for United States citizens.
Q51: What are two rights of everyone living in the United States?
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Q52: What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance?
Q53: Name two promises that new citizens make in the Oath of Allegiance.
Q54: How old do citizens have to be to vote for president?
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Q55: What are two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy?
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Q56: When is the last day you can send in federal income tax forms?
Q57: When must all men register for the Selective Service?
Q58: What is one reason colonists came to America?
Q59: Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
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Q60: What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
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Q61: Why did the colonists fight the British?
Q62: Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Q63: When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
Q64: There were 13 original states. Name three.
Q65: What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
Q66: When was the Constitution written?
Q67: The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
Q68: What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?
Q69: Who is the Father of Our Country?
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Q70: Who was the first president?
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Q71: What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
Q72: Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.
Q73: Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.
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Q74: Name one problem that led to the Civil War.
Q75: What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?
Q76: What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Q77: What did Susan B. Anthony do?
Q78: Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
Q79: Who was president during World War I?
Q80: Who was president during the Great Depression and World War II?
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Q81: Who did the United States fight in World War II?
Q82: Before he was president, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?
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Q83: During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?
Q84: What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
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Q85: What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?
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Q86: What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States?
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Q87: Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.
Q88: Name one of the two longest rivers in the United States.
Q89: What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?
Q90: What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States?
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Q91: Name one U.S. territory.
Q92: Name one state that borders Canada.
Q93: Name one state that borders Mexico.
Q94: What is the capital of the United States?
Q95: Where is the Statue of Liberty?
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Q96: Why does the flag have 13 stripes?
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Q97: Why does the flag have 50 stars?
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Q98: What is the name of the national anthem?
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Q99: When do we celebrate Independence Day?
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Q100: Name two national U.S. holidays.
