Lesson 1: It's a Free Country, Isn't It?
Handout 3

Answer Sheet: 100 Typical Questions

    1. Red, white and blue

2. Fifty

3. White

4. One for each state in the Union

5. Thirteen

6. Red and white

7. They represented the original thirteen states.

8. Fifty

9. Independence Day

10. July 4th

11. England

12. England

13. George Washington

14. George W. Bush

15. Dick Cheney

16. The Electoral College

17. Vice President

18. Four years

19. The Supreme Law of the Land

20. The Constitution can be amended by the Congress and the State Legislatures.

21. Amendment

22. 26

23. 3

24. Legislature, Executive and Judiciary

25. Congress

26. Congress

27. The Senate and the House of Representatives

28. To make laws

29. The people

30. 100

31. (Insert State Information)

32. Six years

33. 435

34. Two years

35. The President, Cabinet, Departments under the Cabinet Members

36. The Supreme Court

37. To interpret laws

38. The Constitution

  1. The first ten amendments to the Constitution

  2. (Insert State Information)

41. (Insert State Information)

42. Speaker of the House of Representatives

43. William Rehnquist

44. Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Rhode Island and Maryland

45. Patrick Henry

46. Germany, Italy and Japan

47. Hawaii and Alaska

48. Two full terms

49. A civil rights leader

50. (Insert Local Information)

51. Must be a natural born citizen of the United States; must be at least 35 years old by the time he/she will serve; must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years.

52. Two from each state

53. Appointed by the President

54. Nine

55. For religious freedom

56. Governor

57. Mayor

58. Thanksgiving

59. Thomas Jefferson

60. July 4, 1776

61. All men are created equal

62. The Star-Spangled Banner

63. Francis Scott Key

64. The Bill of Rights

65. Eighteen

66. The President

67. The Supreme Court

68. Abraham Lincoln

69. Freed many slaves

70. The Cabinet

71. George Washington

72. Form N-400, “Application to File Petition for Naturalization”

73. Native Americans

74. The Mayflower

75. The Colonies

76. (a) The rights of: freedom of speech, press, religion, peaceable assembly and requesting change of government

(b) The right to bear arms (the right to have weapons or own a gun, though subject to certain regulations).

(c) The government may not quarter, or house, soldiers in the people’s homes during peacetime without the people’s consent.

(d) The government may not search or take a person’s property without a warrant.

(e) A person may not be tried twice for the same crime and does not have to testify against himself.

(f) A person charged with a crime still has some rights, such as the right to a trial and to have a lawyer.

(g) The right to trial by jury in most cases.

(h) Protects people against excessive or unreasonable fines or cruel and unusual punishment.

(i) The people have rights other than those mentioned in the Constitution. Any power not given to the Federal Government by the Constitution is a power of either the State or the People.

77. The Congress

78. Republic

79. Abraham Lincoln

80. 1787

81. The Bill of Rights

82. It allows countries to discuss and try to resolve world problems; and provides economic aid to many countries.

83. Congress meets in the Capitol Building in Washington, D. C.

84. Everyone (Citizens and non-citizens living in the U.S.)

85. The Preamble

86. Citizens can obtain Federal Government jobs; travel with a U. S. passport; petition for close relatives to come to the U.S. to live.

87. The right to vote

88. The place where Congress meets

89. The President’s official home

90. Washington, D.C. (1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW)

91. The White House

92. Freedom of: speech, press, religion, peaceable assembly, and requesting change of the government

93. The President

94. George Washington

95. November

  1. January

  2. There is no limit.

98. There is no limit.

99. Democratic and Republican

100. Fifty