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1. What is the date of Independence Day?
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2. What do we call a change to the Constitution?
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3. What are the three branches of our government?
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4. What is the legislative branch of our government?
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5. How many senators are there in Congress?
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6. Can you name the two senators from your state?
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7. What is the Bill of Rights?
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8. Who becomes President of the United States if the President and the Vice President should die?
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9. Who said, “Give me liberty or give me death”?
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10. Who selects the Supreme Court justices?
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11. How many Supreme Court justices are there?
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12. What is the head executive of a state government called?
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13. Who wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner”?
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14. Name one right guaranteed by the First Amendment.
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15. Can you name the 13 original states?
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1. July 4th
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2. Amendments
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3. Legislative, Executive and Judiciary
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4. Congress
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5. 100
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6. Elizabeth Dole and Richard Burr (N.C.)
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7. The first 10 amendments of the U.S. Constitution
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8. Speaker of the House of Representatives
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9. Patrick Henry
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10. Appointed by the President
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11. 9
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12. Governor
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13. Francis Scott Key
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14. Freedom of: speech, press, religion, peaceable assembly, and requesting change of the government
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15. Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Rhode Island and Maryland