FAMOUS PEOPLE | Historical Places to Visit | Facts to Know | WORLD OF WAR | Road trip USA |
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Who is James Madison
Man considered to be the "Father of the U.S. Constitution"
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What is Washington D.C.
The capital of our nation
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What is the Constitution
What is the Supreme Law of the land?
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Who was George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
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What is Alaska
Home to polar bears, oil pipelines and Inuits
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Who is Thomas Jefferson
Man most responsible for writing the Declaration of Independence
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Where is Promontory Point, Utah
Where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads came together in the Utah desert
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What is the 10th Amendment
Reserves powers to State Governments to decide
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What is the Rio Grande
President Polk manufactured a reason to begin this war with Mexico over what southern river
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What is Florida
Home to Mickey Mouse, alligators and rocket launches
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Who were Lewis & Clark
The two men sent out to explore the Louisiana Purchase
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Where is Appomattox Court House, Virginia
The Virginia town where Lee surrendered to Grant to end the U.S. Civil War
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What was Marbury vs. Madison
This landmark Supreme Court decision established the right of judicial review
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What is Charleston, S.C.
The first shots of the U.S. Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter located in this southern city
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What is Nevada
Home to Great Basin National Park, ski hills and I-80
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Who was John Wilkes Booth
Lincoln's assassin
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What is Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Suffered a sneak attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941
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What are 9
The number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court
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Who was Woodrow Wilson
U.S. President who led the nation during WW1
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What is Oklahoma
Home to tornadoes, the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Garth Brooks
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Who is John G. Roberts, Jr.
Who is the current Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
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What is Detroit, Michigan
Place of your teacher's birth
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July 4, 1776
When the Declaration of Independence was signed
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Francis Scott Key
The original poem for the Star Spangled Banner was written by this man during the War of 1812
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What is Ohio
Home to Indians, Bears and Browns
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