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The United States (2104 Articles)
Does the US President Have the Right to Pardon Himself?
What are the Requirements to Run for President in the United States?
How Big are the States in America?
Who is the Commander-In-Chief of the US Military?
What is the Greatest Generation?
Why is Tennessee Known As the Volunteer State?
What is a Naturalized Citizen?
What Is a Q Clearance?
In Politics, what is Public Opinion?
What is a Majority Whip?
Why Is Seattle Called the "Emerald City"?
How Many Left-Handed Presidents Has the US Had?
What is the Federalist Party?
What is the Difference Between a US Senator and a US Representative?
Do I Have to Respond to the ACS?
What Was the Result of the Spanish-American War?
What Was the Asian Exclusion Act?
What Types of Jobs do Americans Have?
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
What Is the Privacy Amendment?
What Is the 14th Amendment?
In the United States, How is the Poverty Line Determined?
What are Slave Codes?
What is the First New Deal?
What is Generation Jones?
What is a Signing Statement?
What is the Lakota Tribe?
What Should I Know about the Mammy Archetype?
What Factors Lead to the Failure of Reconstruction?
What Factors Led to the End of Reconstruction?
What is La Migra?
What Are Progressive Democrats?
What is the Second Great Awakening?
What is a Pocket Veto?
What is Broadway?
Why do Students Recite the Pledge of Allegiance?
Why is Denver Called the Mile High City?
How Did the Dawes Act Affect Native Americans?
Under the Controlled Substances Act, what are the Five Classes of Controlled Substances?
What is the Mainstream Media?
What is the Wild West?
When are Flags Put at Half Mast?
What Was the Tailhook Scandal?
What are the Duties of the Secret Service?
What are the Different Kinds of Native American Rituals?
How Much do Americans Spend on Eating out?
Why Is Idaho Called the Gem State?
Why is Utah Called the Beehive State?
What Is the Equal Rights Amendment?
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
Who are the Pomo Indians?
Why Is Hawaii Called the Aloha State?
What are Enumerated Powers?
How Many Zip Codes are in the United States?
What is Air Force Boot Camp?
What is a Bedroom Community?
What are Some Criticisms of the Electoral College?
What Is the 12th Amendment?
Why is New York Called the Big Apple?
Why Is North Carolina Called the Tar Heel State?
What is a Conservative Democrat?
What is Political Culture?
What is the American Party System?
Why is Missouri Called the Show-Me State?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What Is the History of the Florida State Quarter?
Why Is Kentucky Called the Bluegrass State?
What Is the State Motto of Oregon?
Who are the Ojibwa Indians?
What are the Lakota Sioux?
Why is Delaware Known As the First State?
What is the Job of the United States Vice President?
What Is the Separation of Powers?
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What is the Constitution Party?
What is the Wagner Act?
How Many US Presidents Were First-Born Sons?
What Is the State Motto of Massachusetts?
What is Andersonville Prison?
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
Why is Pennsylvania Called the Keystone State?
What is the Non-Intercourse Act?
What is an Altered Birth Certificate?
Should the United States Stop Using Pennies?
What is the Continental Army?
What is the Progressive Movement?
Why Is Nevada Called the Silver State?
What Was the Tuskegee Experiment?
What Is the State Rock of Texas?
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
What is the Revolutionary Era?
What is the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution?
What is the Women's Army Corps?
What is Death Valley?
What is Americana?
What Is the War of Northern Aggression?
What is the Mohican Tribe?
What is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)?
What is Pearl Harbor?
What Was the American Civil War?
What is a Commuter Town?
What is a Blue Light Special?
What is a Special Election?
Why Is Rhode Island Called the Ocean State?
What is the Equal Pay Act of 1963?
What Are the Legal Requirements for Marriage in the United States?
What is the Greenback Party?
What is the Harrison Act?
What is the Works Progress Administration?
Who are the Erie Indians?
What Is the State Flower of North Carolina?
What Is the State Motto of Alaska?
What is the American Independent Party?
What is the Virginia Plan?
In Politics, what is Swiftboating?
What is the ACLU?
What Is the Significance of a Yellow Ribbon?
What is the Advanced Research Projects Agency?
What Is the State Song of New York?
Why Is Minnesota Called the North Star State?
What is the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act?
What Is the State Animal of Virginia?
Who are the Yuma Indians?
What is the Shoshone Tribe?
What Is the Connection between Cotton and Slavery?
Who are the Mohegan Indians?
What is a Krewe?
What Is the New Left?
What is the HITECH ACT?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
What is a Five and Dime?
What Started Slavery in America?
What is a Cowpoke?
What is American Exceptionalism?
What are the Different Navy SEALs Weapons?
What Is Onion Snow?
What is the Progressive Party?
What is the Cheddar Curtain?
What Caused the Levees to Break in New Orleans During Hurricane Katrina?
What is the Statue of Liberty?
What is the March of Dimes?
Who are the Serrano Indians?
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
What is the Marines Delayed Entry Program?
What are the Key Events in Apache Indian History?
Why Is Illinois Called the "Land of Lincoln"?
Who are the Walla Walla Indians?
Who are the Washoe Indians?
What is the Third Amendment of the US Constitution?
Who are the Osage Indians?
What are Common Green Card Interview Questions?
What Factors Brought about the Abolishment of Slavery?
What is Certified Mail&Trade;?
Why Is Illinois Called the Prairie State?
What is the President Pro Tempore of the Senate?
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
What is the American Communist Party?
What is Soft Money?
What is the Pima Tribe?
What is the Hupa Tribe?
Who are the Yaqui Indians?
In California, what is Prop 13?
Can I Really Fight a Traffic Ticket?
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
What Was the Auburn System?
Why Is West Virginia Called the Mountain State?
Why Is Ohio Called the Buckeye State?
What Is Yellowstone Lake?
What Is the State Tree of Hawaii?
What Is the National Mall?
What is the Opposition Party?
Who are the Cheyenne Indians?
What Is the State Tree of Wyoming?
What is the Patriot Party?
What is Supplemental Appropriation?
In the US, Where is the Residence of the Vice President?
How do Representatives Help Constituents?
What Is the State Nickname of Florida?
Who are the Green Berets?
What is a SWAT Team?
What is the Chitlin' Circuit?
What is the National Youth Administration?
What Is the Dawes Act?
Who Were the Anti-Federalists?
What is the Pentagon?
How do I Know if I Have an FBI File?
What is High Society?
What Is the State Nickname of Texas?
Who are the Seminole Indians?
What is the Balance of Power?
What is the Mojave Tribe?
Who are the Shoshone Indians?
What is Shoefiti?
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?
What Is the State Motto of Pennsylvania?
Why Is Nashville Called "Music City"?
What Is the State Tree of South Carolina?
What Was the Cause of the Spanish-American War?
Do Pledged Delegates Have to Vote a Specific Way?
What Is the State Motto of Texas?
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
What is the Miwok Tribe?
Who are the Winnebago Indians?
What is a U.S. Military Officer?
What is the Fox Tribe?
What is the Pomo Tribe?
Who are the Ohlone Indians?
What Is the 26th Amendment?
Who are the Mohawk Indians?
Why Is Indiana Called the Hoosier State?
What is the Innocence Project?
Who are the Blue Angels?
What is the Socialist Party?
What Are the Cascade Mountains?
What is Mount McKinley?
Which Fruit Is the Most Popular in the US?
What is Army Airborne School?
What is Ghost Voting?
What is the Bush Doctrine?
What is the Domino Theory?
What Is the State Motto of Mississippi?
Why Is St. Louis Called the "Gateway to the West"?
How Many US Presidents Had Brown Eyes?
What Is the State Animal of California?
What Is the State Flower of Georgia?
What is the History of the Pledge of Allegiance?
Who are the Lakota Indians?
What Is the State Song of Maine?
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
What is the Populist Party?
What is the Chinook Tribe?
What Were Major Problems for Women in Slavery?
What Is the Relationship between the Constitution and Slavery?
Why Is Colorado Called the Centennial State?
What Was the Oregon Trail?
What Are the Key Events of Navajo History?
What is ICE?
What is the Senate Judiciary Committee?
Who are the Chippewa Indians?
What is a Duck and Cover Drill?
What is the Mojave Desert?
Why Is Virginia Called Old Dominion?
What is the Fattest American State?
What Is the State Tree of Alabama?
What is the Platt Amendment?
What Is the 13th Amendment?
Who are the Kickapoo Indians?
What does the United States Department of the Interior do?
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
How does Outsourcing Affect the U.S. Economy?
Is the United States Still Paying Any Civil War Pensions?
How Do Prisoners in California Help Fight Wildfires?
How Many Plastic Bags Do Americans Use Each Year?
What is the Federal Poverty Level?
What is Representative Democracy?
What is IOKIYAR?
What is the Southern Strategy?
What Percent of the US Population do Teachers Comprise?
What Are the Characteristics of Native American Culture?
What Was the Whitewater Scandal?
What Was the Hollywood Blacklist?
Why is the Elephant a Symbol of the Republican Party?
What Is Reconstruction?
Why Is Alaska Called the Last Frontier?
What Is the Lautenberg Amendment?
What Happened on September 11, 2001?
Why are US Elections Always Held on Tuesdays?
Who are the Mohican Indians?
Why is Connecticut Called the Constitution State?
What are the Different Homeland Security Agencies?
What is the Bill of Rights?
Why Is Massachusetts Called the Bay State?
What is the Central Intelligence Agency?
What is Blair House?
What Is the State Animal of Washington?
How Many United States Presidents Were Governors First?
What is the EPA?
Where are the High Radon Areas in the US?
What is the Poverty Level in the United States?
What Is the National Flower of the USA?
Why Is Detroit Called the "Motor City"?
What Is the State Animal of Alaska?
What is Operation Just Cause?
What are the Requirements for Running for Congress?
What Is Colonial Slavery?
What is a Platinum Triangle?
In US Politics, what is a Purple State?
What Is the State Animal of Texas?
What does the Term "Anchor Baby" Mean?
Why Is Las Vegas Called "Sin City"?
Who Were the Pilgrims?
What is the Morrill Act?
What is Graft?
What is the Historical Importance of Appomattox?
What is a Hanging Chad?
What is the Bradley Effect?
What Is the History of Idaho's State Flag?
What Is the State Animal of Minnesota?
What Is the State Motto of North Carolina?
What is the Process for US Citizenship?
What is the Whig Party?
What Is the Age of Jackson?
In the United States, what are the Three Branches of Government?
What is Sing Sing Correctional Facility?
What is the 'Hood?
Why Is Nebraska Called the Cornhusker State?
What are the Causes of Poverty in Appalachia?
Why Is Florida Called the Sunshine State?
Who are the Shasta Indians?
What Is the 22nd Amendment?
How Many United States Presidents Were Senators First?
How did the Southern US get to be Called Dixie?
What Is the State Song of Louisiana?
What is the Dakota Tribe?
What Are the Civil War Amendments?
What Is the Grand Canyon?
What is the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution?
Why Is California Called the Golden State?
What Was the Chappaquiddick Incident?
What Does the Department of Homeland Security Do?
What is the Homeowners Protection Act?
What Is the Anti-Slavery Movement?
What is the Homeland Security Act?
What is the Reagan Doctrine?
What is the Philadelphia Convention?
Who are the Arapaho Indians?
What is the American Federation of Labor?
What is a National Park?
What is Dual Federalism?
What Was the Cause of the War of 1812?
What Is a State Motto?
What does It Mean to be a US Citizen?
What Is the State Tree of Pennsylvania?
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
What are Tribal Politics?
Why Is Maine Called the Pine Tree State?
Why Is New Mexico Called the Land of Enchantment?
How Many Islands are in the San Francisco Bay?
What Is the 27th Amendment?
Why Is Iowa Called the Hawkeye State?
What Is the Slavery Amendment?
What is the Seventh Amendment to the US Constitution?
Who are the Powhatan Indians?
What are Some Criticisms of No Child Left Behind?
What is Jamestown?
Who are the Potawatomi Indians?
Why Is Washington Called the Evergreen State?
What Was the Rampart Scandal?
What is the Blanket Primary?
What Is the Huron Tribe?
What Is Yankee White?
What Is the State Animal of Hawaii?
What is a Spoil System?
What Was the Flapper Era?
What Were the Major War of 1812 Battles?
What is the War Powers Act?
What Was the Population of the U.S. Throughout Its History?
What Is the State Motto of Arizona?
What Is the 17th Amendment?
What Is the State Song of Hawaii?
Why Is Vermont Called the Green Mountain State?
What Is the State Motto of Virginia?
What is the Painted Desert?
What is Mad-Dogging?
What is a Bushwacker?
What are Slavery Reparations?
What Is the Sagebrush Rebellion?
What does the US Air Force do?
What Is the State Tree of California?
What is the Crow Tribe?
What is the War on Drugs?
What Does "Remember the Maine" Mean?
Who are the Apache Indians?
Who are the Southern Democrats?
What Is the Relationship between the US Media and Politicians?
Does Voting Actually Matter?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Who are the Hupa Indians?
Which Country First Recognized US Independence?
What Is a State Capital?
What is a Ranking Member?
What Was Riding the Rails?
What is the Wampanoag Tribe?
Why Is Boston Called the "Cradle of Liberty"?
What is the Omaha Tribe?
What Is the National Bird of the USA?
What is the United States Department of Labor Responsible for?
What is the Second New Deal?
Who are the Luiseno Indians?
What is the Yurok Tribe?
What is Ellis Island?
What is a Planned Community?
What is a Filibuster?
What is the Age Discrimination in Employment Act?
Why Is Wyoming Called the Cowboy State?
What is the Doctrine of Incorporation?
What Is the State Motto of Michigan?
What is the Federal Bureau of Prisons?
Why Is Wisconsin Called the Badger State?
What is Virtual Representation?
What Is a State Seal?
What is ROTC?
What Is the State Song of Tennessee?
Why Is Oklahoma Called the Sooner State?
What Is the State Motto of Florida?
What Is the State Motto of South Carolina?
What Is the 24th Amendment?
What is the Gila River Indian Community?
What Is the State Motto of Maine?
What Is the State Motto of Missouri?
What is Rikers Island Prison?
Why Is Montana Called the Treasure State?
Who are the Yurok Indians?
What Were the Liberty Ships?
What is the GOP?
What are State Symbols?
What is Unique About the Appalachian Region?
What is the Lone Gunman Theory?
What is the Railway Labor Act?
Did the Pony Express Use Ponies or Horses?
In the US, what is the DMV?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
What is an Omnibus Bill?
What Is the State Flower of Maine?
Who are the Chinook Indians?
What are Sioux Indians?
What is a Greenback?
What are the Characteristics of Apache Clothing?
What is Freedom of Expression?
What are the Most Popular Names for a Baby in the United States?
What Is the State Animal of Indiana?
What are the Oldest American Cities?
Why Is Louisiana Called the Pelican State?
What Was Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President?
Who Are the Dakota Sioux?
What are Alabama Indians?
Who are the Hatfields and the McCoys?
What is the Arapaho Tribe?
Why Was Cincinnati Once Known As Porkopolis?
Why Was Alabama Called the Cotton State?
Who are the Catawba Indians?
Who are the Kiowa Indians?
What are Hobo Signs?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
What is the Wichita Tribe?
What Is the State Animal of Oregon?
What is a State Bird?
What is the Peace and Freedom Party?
What Happened in Roswell, New Mexico?
What Is the State Tree of Massachusetts?
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
What is the Defense of Marriage Act?
Why Is Michigan Called the Great Lakes State?
What is the Attica Correctional Facility?
Why Is Alabama Called the Yellowhammer State?
What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
What Is the State Motto of Maryland?
Is New York City Still a Melting Pot of Cultures?
What is the Crow Nation?
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
Who are the Huron Indians?
What is the Empire State Building?
Why Is Kansas Called the Sunflower State?
What Is the State Song of Oklahoma?
In the United States, How do I get an Initiative on the Ballot?
Can a US Attorney Practice in Any US State?
What is the Individual Ready Reserve?
What Was the Contract with America?
What is the National Woman Suffrage Association?
Who are the Mohawk People?
Why Is Pittsburgh Called the "Steel City"?
How Much does US Tap Water Cost?
What Is the State Song of Virginia?
What are the Everglades?
What Is the US Postal Service Motto?
What is a Simple Resolution?
What Does "Sensitive but Unclassified" Mean?
What Is the State Song of New Jersey?
What Is the Anti-Slavery Society?
What Is the State Nickname of New York?
Who Designed the 50-Star American Flag?
What is a Divided Government?
What is a Creek Indian Reservation?
What are the Different Types of Military Ribbons?
What is the Copyright Clause?
What is the Hatch Act?
What is Saint Grottlesex?
What is a Milker Bill?
What are the Requirements for Navy Reserve Retirement?
Why Is New York Called the Empire State?
What Are the Duties of Congress?
What Are the Rocky Mountains?
Which U.S. National Parks Have the Most Visitors?
What is God Bless America?
What Does "Radical Right" Mean?
How did the Name "Beantown" Originate?
What is a Senatorial Courtesy?
Who are the Sioux People?
What Is the Brooklyn Bridge?
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