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The United States (2137 Articles)
Is Watermelon a Fruit or a Vegetable?
Why is the Elephant a Symbol of the Republican Party?
What Is the State Animal of Minnesota?
What Is the State Animal of Washington?
What is Super Tuesday?
What is Rikers Island Prison?
How Dangerous Were Fourth of July Celebrations in the Early 1900s?
What is the Difference Between a Caucus and a Primary?
What Was the Cause of the War of 1812?
What is the First New Deal?
What Is Reconstruction?
What Was the Result of the Spanish-American War?
Why Aren't All the Presidential Primaries in the US on the Same Day?
Do Pledged Delegates Have to Vote a Specific Way?
What is the Federal Poverty Level?
What is a Majority Whip?
What are Yellow Dog Democrats?
Why Is Idaho Called the Gem State?
What is Generation Jones?
In US Politics, what is a Purple State?
What Factors Lead to the Failure of Reconstruction?
What is the Job of the United States Vice President?
In the United States, what are the Three Branches of Government?
What are Slave Codes?
How Much do Americans Spend on Eating out?
What is a Blue Light Special?
What Does "Remember the Maine" Mean?
What Are Progressive Democrats?
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
What is Broadway?
How Many People in the US Live Below the Poverty Level?
What Types of Jobs do Americans Have?
Who is the Commander-In-Chief of the US Military?
What is American Exceptionalism?
Who are the Erie Indians?
Who are the Mohican Indians?
What are the Different Navy SEALs Weapons?
What is the Painted Desert?
What are the Different Homeland Security Agencies?
What is the 'Hood?
What is the Philadelphia Convention?
What Is the Connection between Cotton and Slavery?
Why Is Illinois Called the "Land of Lincoln"?
What is the Doctrine of Incorporation?
What Are the Legal Requirements for Marriage in the United States?
What Are the Duties of Congress?
What is the Southern Strategy?
What is the Process for US Citizenship?
Why Is Iowa Called the Hawkeye State?
Who are the Powhatan Indians?
What Percent of the US Population do Teachers Comprise?
What Is the Significance of a Yellow Ribbon?
What is Graft?
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
What is an Army MOS?
What is the Progressive Movement?
What is IOKIYAR?
How Many Left-Handed Presidents Has the US Had?
What Is the State Motto of North Carolina?
Why Is Oklahoma Called the Sooner State?
What is the US Secretary of Education?
What Is the State Motto of Texas?
What Is Onion Snow?
Why Is Kansas Called the Sunflower State?
Who are the Ojibwa Indians?
Who are the Chippewa Indians?
What Is the Anti-Slavery Movement?
How Many US States Have One Syllable?
Who are the Ohlone Indians?
What is the Shoshone Tribe?
Does the US President Have the Right to Pardon Himself?
Why Is Rhode Island Called the Ocean State?
Who are the Osage Indians?
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
Who Were the Anti-Federalists?
What Happened at the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
What is the Number of Justices on the Supreme Court?
What is the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution?
Why Is North Dakota Called the Peace Garden State?
Who Were the Pilgrims?
In the United States, How is the Poverty Line Determined?
What is the Mojave Tribe?
Why Is Washington Called the Evergreen State?
What is the Crow Tribe?
Why Is Montana Called the Treasure State?
What is the Chinook Tribe?
What is the Great Migration?
What is Operation Just Cause?
What Is the Equal Rights Amendment?
What are CAFE Standards?
What Happened in the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
What Factors Brought about the Abolishment of Slavery?
What Is the State Song of Tennessee?
What Are the Most Common Currency Bills in the US?
Why Is Kentucky Called the Bluegrass State?
What is the Peace and Freedom Party?
What is Americana?
Why Is Hawaii Called the Aloha State?
Why Is California Called the Golden State?
What Factors Led to the End of Reconstruction?
What is the Morrill Act?
What is the Second New Deal?
What Is the State Motto of Nevada?
What Is the 26th Amendment?
What Is the State Motto of Pennsylvania?
Why Is North Carolina Called the Tar Heel State?
What is a Krewe?
Should the United States Stop Using Pennies?
What Is a State Insect?
What Is the State Tree of Pennsylvania?
What Was the Whitewater Scandal?
Did Women in Wyoming Have the Right to Vote before the 19th Amendment?
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
What Started Slavery in America?
What Is the 27th Amendment?
Who are the Pomo Indians?
What is the American Communist Party?
What Is the 24th Amendment?
What is the Women's Army Corps?
What is the Progressive Party?
What is the United States Department of Labor Responsible for?
What is the Mohican Tribe?
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
What is Pearl Harbor?
What are the Duties of a CASA Volunteer?
What is the Yurok Tribe?
What Is the State Motto of Massachusetts?
Who are the Apache Indians?
Why Is Massachusetts Called the Bay State?
What Is a State Motto?
What is the GOP?
What is the Army Corps of Engineers?
Who are the Iroquois Native Americans?
How Did the Dawes Act Affect Native Americans?
What Was the Flapper Era?
What Were the Major War of 1812 Battles?
What Is the State Song of Virginia?
What Was the Population of the U.S. Throughout Its History?
What is a State Flower?
Why is Connecticut Called the Constitution State?
Why is Delaware Known As the First State?
What Is the State Flower of New Hampshire?
What Is Georgia's State Animal?
Who are the Pawnee Indians?
What is the Advanced Research Projects Agency?
What are Some Criticisms of the Electoral College?
What Is the State Animal of Virginia?
What Is the Huron Tribe?
What is the Apache Tribe?
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?
What is an Executive Agreement?
What is an Altered Birth Certificate?
What is a Formula Grant?
Why Is Louisiana Called the Pelican State?
What Was the Tuskegee Experiment?
What Is the Lautenberg Amendment?
What is the Fattest American State?
What Is the Most Common Birthday in the United States?
Who are the Yakima Indians?
What Are the Key Events of Navajo History?
What Were the Pentagon Papers?
What is a Congressional Caucus?
What is the Hupa Tribe?
What Is the State Motto of Missouri?
Why Was Alabama Called the Cotton State?
What Is the State Nickname of Florida?
How Many US Presidents Were First-Born Sons?
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
What is a Planned Community?
Who are the Southern Democrats?
What are the Key Events in Apache Indian History?
What is an Air Force Squadron?
What is the Lummi Tribe?
What Is the State Animal of California?
What Happened on September 11, 2001?
Why are US Elections Always Held on Tuesdays?
Who are the Lakota Indians?
Who are the Missouri Indians?
What is AIPAC?
What are Alabama Indians?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
What is the Poverty Level in the United States?
In the United States, How do I get an Initiative on the Ballot?
What is the Comanche Tribe?
What is Army Airborne School?
Who are the Serrano Indians?
Who are the Paiute Indians?
Who are the Yuma Indians?
Has the United States Historically Been Opposed to Immigration?
What is the Federalist Party?
What Is Hawaii's State Flower?
What are State Symbols?
What is the Continental Army?
What Is the State Animal of Florida?
Who are the Shawnee Indians?
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
What Is the State Motto of Arizona?
What Is the State Motto of Florida?
What Is the War of Northern Aggression?
What is the Cahuilla Tribe?
What are Slavery Reparations?
What is the Historical Importance of Appomattox?
What is the Reagan Doctrine?
How Effective Is California at Generating Solar Power?
What are Hobo Signs?
Why Is Wyoming Called the Cowboy State?
What Is the State Animal of Indiana?
What is Certified Mail&Trade;?
What Is a State Capital?
What is the Speaker of the House?
Do All U.S. States Have Sales Tax?
What are Enumerated Powers?
What does the United States Department of Education do?
What Is the State Motto of Washington?
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act?
What Is the Annual Death Rate in the US?
How Many People in US Jails and Prisons are Non-Violent Offenders?
Who are Fox Indians?
What is the Federal Bureau of Prisons?
How did the Southern US get to be Called Dixie?
What Is the State Tree of South Carolina?
What Is the History of the State Flag of Alabama?
What is the Chippewa Tribe?
What Is the State Song of Arizona?
What is the Miwok Tribe?
Does NYC Care When Subway Delays Make Commuters Late for Work?
What is a Standing Committee?
What is the Women's Armed Services Integration Act?
What is Dual Federalism?
What Is the State Motto of Mississippi?
Who are the Lenape Indians?
What is the Role of Partisan Politics in the U.S.?
Why Is Alaska Called the Last Frontier?
What is a Divided Government?
In the US, what is the DMV?
What is the Seventh Amendment to the US Constitution?
What Is the Reconstruction Act?
What is the Hatch-Waxman Act?
What does the US Air Force do?
Who are the Assiniboine Indians?
What Was Special Field Order 15?
Who are the Yurok Indians?
What is a Concurrent Resolution?
Why Is Virginia Called Old Dominion?
What is the Immigration and Naturalization Service?
What Is the State Motto of Oklahoma?
What is the Pima Tribe?
What is the Unity Party?
What is the Senate Judiciary Committee?
How Difficult Is It for a U.S. Territory to Achieve Statehood?
What is Representative Democracy?
What are the Requirements for Running for Congress?
Do I Have to Respond to the ACS?
What is the Mainstream Media?
In California, what is Prop 13?
What Are the Characteristics of Native American Culture?
Is Swearing More Acceptable in Certain U.S. States?
Why is Utah Called the Beehive State?
What is a Naturalized Citizen?
What are the Requirements to Run for President in the United States?
What is the War on Terror?
What is the War Powers Act?
How Big are the States in America?
What is the American Independent Party?
What is the EPA?
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What is Ellis Island?
Which US State Is the Most Densely Populated?
What Is a Q Clearance?
What is the Lakota Tribe?
What Is the Age of Jackson?
How Many Zip Codes are in the United States?
What is the Bill of Rights?
What Is the State Tree of California?
What Is the National Flower of the USA?
What is a Hanging Chad?
Why Is Seattle Called the "Emerald City"?
Why is New York Called the Big Apple?
Why is Pennsylvania Called the Keystone State?
What Is Colonial Slavery?
What Is the Employee Retirement Income Security Act?
What is the Works Progress Administration?
What Is the 13th Amendment?
What are the Marine Corps Special Forces?
What is the Greatest Generation?
Why Is Las Vegas Called "Sin City"?
What Is the State Motto of New York?
Where are the High Radon Areas in the US?
Why is Tennessee Known As the Volunteer State?
What are Sioux Indians?
What Is the State Nickname of New York?
What is the Second Great Awakening?
What does It Mean to be a US Citizen?
How does Outsourcing Affect the U.S. Economy?
Why is Missouri Called the Show-Me State?
What Are the Civil War Amendments?
Under the Controlled Substances Act, what are the Five Classes of Controlled Substances?
What Is the State Animal of Texas?
What is the Wild West?
What is the National Prohibition Act?
What are the US Time Zones?
What are the Duties of the Secret Service?
What are the Causes of Poverty in Appalachia?
What is the Crow Nation?
What is the Difference Between a US Senator and a US Representative?
What is the HITECH ACT?
What Percent of Americans Have Bachelor's Degrees?
What Is the State Song of Louisiana?
What is the President Pro Tempore of the Senate?
What Is the State Motto of Louisiana?
What Is the 23rd Amendment?
What Is the Privacy Amendment?
What is the Empire State Building?
What Were the First Postage Stamps Used in the United States?
What Does the Department of Homeland Security Do?
Why Is Michigan Called the Great Lakes State?
In the US, Where is the Residence of the Vice President?
Why Is Alabama Called the Yellowhammer State?
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Why Is Florida Called the Sunshine State?
Does Voting Actually Matter?
How Many United States Presidents Were Senators First?
Why Is Wisconsin Called the Badger State?
Who are the Hupa Indians?
What is the Innocence Project?
What is the Senate Candy Desk?
What is the Wampanoag Tribe?
How Many United States Presidents Were Governors First?
What Is the National Bird of the USA?
What is the Balance of Power?
What Caused the Levees to Break in New Orleans During Hurricane Katrina?
What Is the Longest US War?
What are the Different Kinds of Native American Rituals?
Who are the Ottawa Indians?
What is a National Park?
What Is Yankee White?
What Is the State Tree of North Carolina?
What Is the Relationship between the US Media and Politicians?
What Is the State Motto of Michigan?
Why Is Pittsburgh Called the "Steel City"?
What is the National Youth Administration?
What Is a State Seal?
What is a Signing Statement?
What is the Term for Supreme Court Justices?
What is a Ranking Member?
What Is the Grand Canyon?
What is the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution?
What is the Virginia Plan?
What is Jamestown?
What is Air Force Boot Camp?
What Is the Separation of Powers?
What Is the State Song of New York?
Who are the Luiseno Indians?
Who are the Mohawk Indians?
What is the Zuni Tribe?
Why Is New York Called the Empire State?
Why do Students Recite the Pledge of Allegiance?
What is the Central Intelligence Agency?
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
How Many US Presidents Had Brown Eyes?
What Is the State Flower of Massachusetts?
What Was the Asian Exclusion Act?
What is the Railway Labor Act?
What is the Committee on Public Information?
What Is the 17th Amendment?
What is the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution?
What Is the State Motto of Alaska?
What is the Socialist Party?
What Is the State Nickname of Texas?
Who are the Winnebago Indians?
What is Sing Sing Correctional Facility?
What Does the U.S. Department of State Do?
What Is the State Song of Mississippi?
What is the March of Dimes?
Why Is Nebraska Called the Cornhusker State?
What is the American Federation of Labor?
Why Is Detroit Called the "Motor City"?
Who are the Shasta Indians?
What is a Conservative Democrat?
What is a Special Election?
Who are the Mohawk People?
Why Is St. Louis Called the "Gateway to the West"?
What are Tribal Politics?
Why Is Nevada Called the Silver State?
Why Is New Mexico Called the Land of Enchantment?
What Are the Largest Lakes in the US?
In Politics, what is Public Opinion?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
What Is the 14th Amendment?
What is Mad-Dogging?
What is New Federalism?
What Is the State Motto of Illinois?
Who are the Potawatomi Indians?
What is a Bedroom Community?
What Was the American Civil War?
What is the Wagner Act?
Who are the Arapaho Indians?
What is Shoefiti?
What is a Hudson's Bay Point Blanket?
What Is the History of the State Flag of Tennessee?
What Is the State Animal of Hawaii?
What are the Oldest American Cities?
Why Is Maine Called the Pine Tree State?
Why Is Illinois Called the Prairie State?
What is the Harrison Act?
Why Is Colorado Called the Centennial State?
What is the Revolutionary Era?
What Is the State Bird of Pennsylvania?
Why Is Boston Called the "Cradle of Liberty"?
What is the Whig Party?
What Was the Tailhook Scandal?
What is the United States Marine Corps?
What is the United States Census?
What Was the Rampart Scandal?
What is a Commuter Town?
What Was the Contract with America?
What Was the Hollywood Blacklist?
What is the Marines Delayed Entry Program?
What is the Non-Intercourse Act?
What is the United States National Radio Quiet Zone?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Who Was the First US President to Be Born in a Hospital?
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
What is the Farm Security Administration?
What Is the State Motto of South Carolina?
What are the Key Events in Cherokee History?
What Is the State Motto of Virginia?
What is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
What is the Homeowners Protection Act?
What Mind Control Experiments Did the CIA Conduct in the 1950s?
What is the Homeland Security Act?
What is the Constitution Party?
What Is the History of the State Seal of Massachusetts?
What is the Freedom of Assembly?
What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
What is a Duck and Cover Drill?
What are the Characteristics of Apache Clothing?
What Is the State Animal of Alaska?
What Is a State Song?
What Was the Apollo Program?
What Was Bank Night?
Why Is South Carolina Called the Palmetto State?
What is the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
What Are the Rocky Mountains?
What Is the US Postal Service Motto?
Why Is Vermont Called the Green Mountain State?
Who are the Seminole Indians?
Which States did Not Originally Ratify the 13th Amendment?
How do Representatives Help Constituents?
What is the Populist Party?
What is the Bush Doctrine?
What is the Mall of America?
Why Is West Virginia Called the Mountain State?
Why is Denver Called the Mile High City?
What is Tin Pan Alley?
Which Capital of the United States Had the Shortest Tenure?
What is the US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development?
What is the Hatch Act?
What is Navy Officer Training?
What is the Cheddar Curtain?
Who are the Cherokee Indians?
What is Mount McKinley?
Who are the Sioux People?
What Is the Gang of Eight?
What is a Spoil System?
What is the Equal Pay Act of 1963?
What is the Powhatan Tribe?
In Congress, what is an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute?
What is the Communications Decency Act?
What does the Surgeon General do?
What Is the Treaty of Ghent?
What Should I Know about the Mammy Archetype?
What Is the State Song of New Jersey?
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
What is the Domino Theory?
Who are the Kiowa Indians?
What Is the State Tree of Virginia?
Why Is New Hampshire Called the Granite State?
What Is the Dawes Act?
Why Is Oregon Called the Beaver State?
What Is the State Rock of Texas?
How do I Know if I Have an FBI File?
What is the Saturday Evening Post?
Why Is Maryland Called the Old Line State?
What Is the History of the State Seal of Maine?
What Is the Anti-Slavery Society?
Who are the Cayuga Indians?
What is a Waiver of Inadmissibility?
What is the Third Amendment of the US Constitution?
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
What is the Dakota Tribe?
What is a Five and Dime?
What is the Brown Act?
What is Neo-Conservatism?
What Is a State Nickname?
What is a Tar Heel?
What is a Swing State?
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