1. Why do we celebrate the Fourth of July?
2. Who was the first President of the United States?
3. Who is the President of the United States today?
4. What is the Constitution?
5. What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called?
6. Who elects Congress?
7. How many Senators are there in Congress?
8. For how long do we elect each Senator?
9. For how long do we elect the Representatives in Congress?
10. Who nominates Judges to the Supreme Court?
11. What are the three branches of our government?
12. What is the highest court in the United States?
13. What major river running north to south divides the United States?
14. The Civil War was fought over what important issue?
15. Name the two major political parties in the United States today.
16. How many states are there in the United States?
17. What is the capital of the United States?
18. What is the minimum voting age in the United States?
19. Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
20. What nation was first to land a man on the moon?
21. What is the capital of your state?
22. What is it called if the President refuses to sign a bill into law and returns it to Congress with his objections?
23. What two oceans bound the United States?
24. What famous American invented the electric light bulb?
25. What is the national anthem of the United States?

1. Independence Day
2. George Washington
3. William "Bill" Jefferson Clinton
4. The supreme law of the land
5. The Bill of Rights
6. The people
7. 100
8. Six years
9. Two years
10. The President
11. Legislative, Executive and Judicial
12. The Supreme Court
13. The Mississippi River
14. Slavery or States Rights
15. Democratic and Republican
16. Fifty
17. Washington, D.C.
18. Eighteen
19. A civil rights leader
20. The United States of America
21.
22. Veto
23. The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
24. Edison
25. The Star-Spangled Banner