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The United States (2103 Articles)
What is a Naturalized Citizen?
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
What is the Federalist Party?
What Is the History of Idaho's State Flag?
What Is the History of the Florida State Quarter?
In Politics, what is Public Opinion?
What is a Majority Whip?
Can I Really Fight a Traffic Ticket?
What is the Difference Between a US Senator and a US Representative?
Why Is Alaska Called the Last Frontier?
In Politics, what is Swiftboating?
In the United States, what are the Three Branches of Government?
What is La Migra?
What is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)?
What is the Bradley Effect?
Why Is Massachusetts Called the Bay State?
What is a Spoil System?
What is the Third Amendment of the US Constitution?
What Is Yellowstone Lake?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What does the Term "Anchor Baby" Mean?
What Is the Privacy Amendment?
Why is Connecticut Called the Constitution State?
What is a Bushwacker?
What is the Historical Importance of Appomattox?
Why Is Seattle Called the "Emerald City"?
Why do Students Recite the Pledge of Allegiance?
What are the Requirements to Run for President in the United States?
What Is Reconstruction?
What Is a Q Clearance?
What is the Opposition Party?
What is the Southern Strategy?
What is the Patriot Party?
What is the Defense of Marriage Act?
What is the Constitution Party?
Does the US President Have the Right to Pardon Himself?
What are the Requirements for Running for Congress?
Do I Have to Respond to the ACS?
What Was the Asian Exclusion Act?
What Types of Jobs do Americans Have?
Who are the Mohican Indians?
What is the EPA?
What is Graft?
What is a Hanging Chad?
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Should the United States Stop Using Pennies?
How Many Left-Handed Presidents Has the US Had?
What is the Process for US Citizenship?
What is the Wampanoag Tribe?
What are Some Criticisms of No Child Left Behind?
Who Were the Pilgrims?
What is the Job of the United States Vice President?
What is the Bill of Rights?
What is a Blue Light Special?
What Was the Hollywood Blacklist?
Why Is Idaho Called the Gem State?
What is the Ways and Means Committee?
What Is the State Motto of North Carolina?
Why are US Elections Always Held on Tuesdays?
Why Is California Called the Golden State?
What is Air Force Boot Camp?
What Is the Anti-Slavery Movement?
What is Army Airborne School?
Who are the Arapaho Indians?
What Is the State Motto of Massachusetts?
Why is New York Called the Big Apple?
What are the Key Events in Apache Indian History?
Does Voting Actually Matter?
How Many United States Presidents Were Senators First?
What Was the Population of the U.S. Throughout Its History?
Why Is Las Vegas Called "Sin City"?
How Many United States Presidents Were Governors First?
What Should I Know about the Mammy Archetype?
What Was the Tailhook Scandal?
What Factors Lead to the Failure of Reconstruction?
What Caused the Levees to Break in New Orleans During Hurricane Katrina?
What is the Mohican Tribe?
What are Some Criticisms of the Electoral College?
Why Is Montana Called the Treasure State?
Why is Pennsylvania Called the Keystone State?
Why Is Nashville Called "Music City"?
Who are the Walla Walla Indians?
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
What is the War Powers Act?
Why Is Oklahoma Called the Sooner State?
Who are the Erie Indians?
Why is Delaware Known As the First State?
What is the ACLU?
Why Was Cincinnati Once Known As Porkopolis?
What Is the Separation of Powers?
What is the Homeland Security Act?
Why Is Washington Called the Evergreen State?
What is the Reagan Doctrine?
Who are the Green Berets?
What is a Planned Community?
What Is the Connection between Cotton and Slavery?
Why is Denver Called the Mile High City?
What Is the State Flower of Georgia?
What is the Omaha Tribe?
What is Jamestown?
What Is the State Motto of Missouri?
Why Is Minnesota Called the North Star State?
What is the Blanket Primary?
What is Ellis Island?
What is a Greenback?
What Is a State Motto?
Why Is Wyoming Called the Cowboy State?
How did the Southern US get to be Called Dixie?
Who are the Hupa Indians?
What Is the State Song of Louisiana?
What is a Creek Indian Reservation?
In the US, what is the DMV?
Why Is Vermont Called the Green Mountain State?
Why Is Hawaii Called the Aloha State?
What is the Miwok Tribe?
What is the Mojave Tribe?
What are the Different Kinds of Native American Rituals?
What Was the Rampart Scandal?
How Many US Presidents Were First-Born Sons?
What is a Krewe?
What Is the State Animal of Minnesota?
Why Is Maine Called the Pine Tree State?
What is the Lone Gunman Theory?
What Was the Result of the Spanish-American War?
What is the President Pro Tempore of the Senate?
What Is the State Motto of Arizona?
What Is the State Song of Hawaii?
What is the Socialist Party?
What Was the Chappaquiddick Incident?
What Was the American Civil War?
Who are the Sioux People?
What Is the Huron Tribe?
What are the Causes of Poverty in Appalachia?
What is a SWAT Team?
Who are the Southern Democrats?
What is a Conservative Democrat?
What is Political Culture?
Who are the Washoe Indians?
What is Virtual Representation?
What is the Pentagon?
What Is the 24th Amendment?
Who are the Powhatan Indians?
What Is the National Bird of the USA?
What is the Whig Party?
What Is the Sagebrush Rebellion?
What is the Statue of Liberty?
What Was the Gadsden Purchase?
What is Ghost Voting?
What Is the State Nickname of New York?
Who are the Mohawk Indians?
What is the Social Gospel?
What Was the Golden Spike?
What Is the State Rock of Texas?
What is a Ranking Member?
What are the Different Types of Military Ribbons?
Why Is Iowa Called the Hawkeye State?
What is the Hupa Tribe?
What Is the State Flower of Maine?
Who are the Serrano Indians?
What are Hobo Signs?
What is an Altered Birth Certificate?
Why Is Pittsburgh Called the "Steel City"?
What Is the State Tree of Pennsylvania?
What Are the Legal Requirements for Marriage in the United States?
What Is a State Capital?
Why Is Colorado Called the Centennial State?
What is Soft Money?
What Is a State Nickname?
What Is the State Song of Oklahoma?
What is a Limousine Liberal?
What Is the State Nickname of Florida?
What is the Secretary of the Interior?
What is a Hudson's Bay Point Blanket?
What Is the Equal Rights Amendment?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What is the Greenback Party?
How Many Islands are in the San Francisco Bay?
What Is the State Animal of Oregon?
What Was the Oregon Trail?
Which U.S. National Parks Have the Most Visitors?
What is American Exceptionalism?
What Is the Grand Canyon?
Who are the Kickapoo Indians?
What is the Virginia Plan?
What are the Lakota Sioux?
What is the Wagner Act?
What Is the Crazy Horse Memorial?
What is Freedom of Expression?
Who are Fox Indians?
Which Country First Recognized US Independence?
What Is the 17th Amendment?
What Is Old Faithful?
What does the United States Department of the Interior do?
Who are the Potawatomi Indians?
What is a Milker Bill?
What Is the Brooklyn Bridge?
What Is the 26th Amendment?
What Was Tammany Hall?
What is the Job Training Partnership Act?
What is the Progressive Movement?
What Factors Brought about the Abolishment of Slavery?
What Is the State Song of Tennessee?
What is a State Bird?
What Was Riding the Rails?
What Is the State Flower of North Carolina?
What is High Society?
What Does "Radical Right" Mean?
What is the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution?
What is the Labor-Management Relations Act?
What Is the State Tree of Massachusetts?
Why Is Michigan Called the Great Lakes State?
Who are the Crow Indians?
What Is Science Museum Oklahoma?
What is the Library of Congress?
What are the Requirements for Navy Reserve Retirement?
What is Shoefiti?
Who Designed the 50-Star American Flag?
What is the Great Migration?
What Is the Relationship between the US Media and Politicians?
What Is a State Insect?
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
How Much does US Tap Water Cost?
What is a Five and Dime?
Do Pledged Delegates Have to Vote a Specific Way?
What is the Works Progress Administration?
What Is the History of the State Seal of California?
What are Alabama Indians?
What is the Hatch Act?
What is the United States Marine Corps?
What Is the State Song of North Carolina?
What Is the State Song of New Jersey?
Who are the Shoshone Indians?
Why Is New York Called the Empire State?
Why Is St. Louis Called the "Gateway to the West"?
How Did the Dawes Act Affect Native Americans?
What is a Divided Government?
Is Average Net worth in the US Increasing for All Age Groups?
Who are the Winnebago Indians?
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
What Was the Contract with America?
What Were the Liberty Ships?
Who are the Lenape Indians?
What are State Symbols?
What is the National Youth Administration?
Why Is Louisiana Called the Pelican State?
What Was the Cause of the Spanish-American War?
What is the US Secretary of Education?
What is the Biltmore House?
What Happened in Roswell, New Mexico?
Who are the Seminole Indians?
How does Outsourcing Affect the U.S. Economy?
What Percent of the US Population do Teachers Comprise?
Why Is Detroit Called the "Motor City"?
What is IOKIYAR?
How Big are the States in America?
What Is the 14th Amendment?
What are Slave Codes?
What is Representative Democracy?
What is a Platinum Triangle?
What Is the State Motto of Oregon?
What Factors Led to the End of Reconstruction?
What is the Poverty Level in the United States?
What is Sing Sing Correctional Facility?
What Is the 12th Amendment?
What is a Filibuster?
Who are the Mohegan Indians?
What is the Equal Pay Act of 1963?
What Is Colonial Slavery?
What Is the Dawes Act?
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
What Is the State Tree of Wyoming?
What is the Seventh Amendment to the US Constitution?
What is the Cheddar Curtain?
What are Slavery Reparations?
What Are the Characteristics of Native American Culture?
What is the Age Discrimination in Employment Act?
What is the Continental Army?
What is Generation Jones?
What Was the Whitewater Scandal?
What Is the Lautenberg Amendment?
In US Politics, what is a Purple State?
Who is the Commander-In-Chief of the US Military?
What is the Federal Poverty Level?
What is the Advanced Research Projects Agency?
What is Andersonville Prison?
Why is the Elephant a Symbol of the Republican Party?
What is a Special Election?
Why is Missouri Called the Show-Me State?
What Is the State Animal of Washington?
What is the Greatest Generation?
What is the Wild West?
What are the Different Homeland Security Agencies?
What Is the National Flower of the USA?
Who are the Catawba Indians?
Who are the Shasta Indians?
What is the Central Intelligence Agency?
What Happened on September 11, 2001?
What is the Mainstream Media?
What are the Different Navy SEALs Weapons?
Who are the Ojibwa Indians?
What Does the Department of Homeland Security Do?
How Many Zip Codes are in the United States?
What is the 'Hood?
What Are Progressive Democrats?
What is a National Park?
What is a Pocket Veto?
What is the First New Deal?
What is a Signing Statement?
How do I Know if I Have an FBI File?
Where are the High Radon Areas in the US?
In the United States, How is the Poverty Line Determined?
What is a Bedroom Community?
In California, what is Prop 13?
What Does "Remember the Maine" Mean?
What are the Characteristics of Apache Clothing?
Why Is Florida Called the Sunshine State?
What is Broadway?
What is the Doctrine of Incorporation?
What Was the Tuskegee Experiment?
What Is the State Animal of Texas?
What is the Lakota Tribe?
What Is Onion Snow?
What is Americana?
What are Enumerated Powers?
What is the Homeowners Protection Act?
What are the Duties of the Secret Service?
What are Sioux Indians?
How Much do Americans Spend on Eating out?
Why is Utah Called the Beehive State?
What Is the State Animal of Alaska?
Can You Spell the Word Criminal from Any Presidential Names?
Why Is Rhode Island Called the Ocean State?
Why Is Illinois Called the Prairie State?
What is the Dakota Tribe?
What is the Revolutionary Era?
Why Is Boston Called the "Cradle of Liberty"?
What Is the Age of Jackson?
What is the Balance of Power?
What is the Morrill Act?
Why is Tennessee Known As the Volunteer State?
What does the US Air Force do?
What is the Yurok Tribe?
What is Rikers Island Prison?
What is the Shoshone Tribe?
What is Dual Federalism?
Why Is North Carolina Called the Tar Heel State?
What is ROTC?
Why Is Kentucky Called the Bluegrass State?
What is an Omnibus Bill?
What is Mad-Dogging?
What Is the State Song of New York?
Why Was Alabama Called the Cotton State?
Why Is Nebraska Called the Cornhusker State?
Who are the Yuma Indians?
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
Why Is West Virginia Called the Mountain State?
Who are the Osage Indians?
What is the HITECH ACT?
What Was the Flapper Era?
What Is the State Animal of California?
What is the Peace and Freedom Party?
When are Flags Put at Half Mast?
What is Supplemental Appropriation?
What is the Senate Judiciary Committee?
What is the Arapaho Tribe?
Who are the Chinook Indians?
What is the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act?
What is the Populist Party?
What Is Yankee White?
What does It Mean to be a US Citizen?
What Is the State Motto of Michigan?
What Were the Major War of 1812 Battles?
What is Certified Mail&Trade;?
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
What Is the 27th Amendment?
Under the Controlled Substances Act, what are the Five Classes of Controlled Substances?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
What Is the State Motto of Virginia?
What Is the State Tree of California?
What is the March of Dimes?
What is the War on Drugs?
What is the Philadelphia Convention?
Who are the Ottawa Indians?
Who are the Apache Indians?
Why Is Indiana Called the Hoosier State?
What Is the 22nd Amendment?
What Was the Glass-Steagall Act?
Why Is Wisconsin Called the Badger State?
What is the Senate Candy Desk?
What Was Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President?
What is the American Independent Party?
What is Neo-Conservatism?
What is the Painted Desert?
What is the Attica Correctional Facility?
Which Fruit Is the Most Popular in the US?
What is the Crow Tribe?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
What is the American Federation of Labor?
What is the Marines Delayed Entry Program?
Why Is Illinois Called the "Land of Lincoln"?
What is the Federal Bureau of Prisons?
Why Is New Mexico Called the Land of Enchantment?
What Is the State Song of Virginia?
Who are the Pomo Indians?
What Is the State Motto of South Carolina?
What is the Women's Army Corps?
What is the Second New Deal?
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What Is the State Motto of Maryland?
What Is the State Motto of Pennsylvania?
What is the GOP?
What is the American Party System?
Why Is Nevada Called the Silver State?
What Is a State Seal?
What Started Slavery in America?
Who are the Blue Angels?
Who Are the Dakota Sioux?
What Is the Significance of a Yellow Ribbon?
In the United States, How do I get an Initiative on the Ballot?
Why Is Alabama Called the Yellowhammer State?
What is a Commuter Town?
What is the Mojave Desert?
What is the Non-Intercourse Act?
What is a Formula Grant?
What are Common Green Card Interview Questions?
What Are the Duties of Congress?
What Is the National Mall?
What Is the State Motto of Louisiana?
Who are the Cheyenne Indians?
What is God Bless America?
What Is the State Motto of Florida?
What Is the State Motto of Texas?
What is the Progressive Party?
What Is the State Nickname of Texas?
What is the Pomo Tribe?
What is the Bush Doctrine?
Who are the Kiowa Indians?
What Is the State Animal of Hawaii?
Who are the Iroquois Native Americans?
Did the Pony Express Use Ponies or Horses?
What Are the Key Events of Navajo History?
What is Death Valley?
What Is the War of Northern Aggression?
What is Mount McKinley?
Who are the Luiseno Indians?
What is the Individual Ready Reserve?
Who are the Yurok Indians?
What is Operation Just Cause?
What Is the State Animal of Indiana?
What is the Innocence Project?
Why Is Virginia Called Old Dominion?
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
What is a Cowpoke?
Who are the Lakota Indians?
Who are the Huron Indians?
What is a Simple Resolution?
What is the Pima Tribe?
What Are the Cascade Mountains?
Why Is Kansas Called the Sunflower State?
What is the United States Department of Labor Responsible for?
How do Representatives Help Constituents?
What Is the Anti-Slavery Society?
What Is the State Animal of Virginia?
What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
How Knowledgeable Are Americans about Religion?
What Was the Cause of the War of 1812?
What is the Oval Office?
What Is the State Motto of Colorado?
How Has the Average Size of American Homes Changed over Time?
Who Were the Anti-Federalists?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
What is the Fattest American State?
What is the Platt Amendment?
What Is the US Postal Service Motto?
What Is the Slavery Amendment?
What is ICE?
Who are the Hatfields and the McCoys?
What is a U.S. Military Officer?
Who are the Pawnee Indians?
Can a US Attorney Practice in Any US State?
What is the Zuni Tribe?
What is an Army MOS?
What Is the New Left?
What Is the State Tree of South Carolina?
What is the Harrison Act?
What is the Railway Labor Act?
Who are the Chippewa Indians?
What Was Special Field Order 15?
What Were Major Problems for Women in Slavery?
What is the Wichita Tribe?
What is the Continental Divide?
What are the Most Popular Names for a Baby in the United States?
What are the Oldest American Cities?
What are Tribal Politics?
What are Navajo Native Americans?
What Is the State Song of Maine?
What is the Empire State Building?
What is the Constitutional Union Party?
Who are the Yaqui Indians?
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