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The United States (2106 Articles)
How does Outsourcing Affect the U.S. Economy?
How Big are the States in America?
What is the Federal Poverty Level?
What is Representative Democracy?
What are the Requirements for Running for Congress?
What Is a Q Clearance?
In Politics, what is Public Opinion?
What is the Bill of Rights?
What Is Reconstruction?
What is the Southern Strategy?
Why is Connecticut Called the Constitution State?
What Is the Lautenberg Amendment?
Why are US Elections Always Held on Tuesdays?
What is the Wild West?
What is the EPA?
What is the Difference Between a US Senator and a US Representative?
What is IOKIYAR?
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
What is a Signing Statement?
Who are the Mohican Indians?
How Many Zip Codes are in the United States?
What is a Blue Light Special?
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
Does the US President Have the Right to Pardon Himself?
Why is Missouri Called the Show-Me State?
What Types of Jobs do Americans Have?
What Is the State Animal of Texas?
How Many United States Presidents Were Governors First?
What are the Different Homeland Security Agencies?
What are the Duties of the Secret Service?
What is the 'Hood?
What is Rikers Island Prison?
What does It Mean to be a US Citizen?
What is the Central Intelligence Agency?
Why Is Oklahoma Called the Sooner State?
Why Is Iowa Called the Hawkeye State?
What is the Lakota Tribe?
What Is the 14th Amendment?
What are the Lakota Sioux?
What is a Bedroom Community?
What Was the Hollywood Blacklist?
Why is New York Called the Big Apple?
How Many United States Presidents Were Senators First?
What is the War Powers Act?
Why Is Boston Called the "Cradle of Liberty"?
What Factors Lead to the Failure of Reconstruction?
What is the Morrill Act?
In California, what is Prop 13?
What is a Pocket Veto?
What Was the Glass-Steagall Act?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What Are the Duties of Congress?
What Is the Privacy Amendment?
What Is the State Nickname of Texas?
What is the Mohican Tribe?
What is Graft?
Why Is Montana Called the Treasure State?
What Is the State Motto of Maryland?
What is a Planned Community?
What Is the State Motto of Pennsylvania?
What Was the Cause of the War of 1812?
What is a Krewe?
What is the Clean Air Act?
What Is the State Song of Louisiana?
What is Camp David?
What is the Revolutionary Era?
What Should I Know about the Mammy Archetype?
What is Jamestown?
What Caused the Levees to Break in New Orleans During Hurricane Katrina?
What is Pearl Harbor?
What is Ellis Island?
What is a SWAT Team?
Why Is Nashville Called "Music City"?
What are the Marine Corps Reserves?
Why Is Wisconsin Called the Badger State?
How Much does US Tap Water Cost?
What Is the State Motto of North Carolina?
What is a Ranking Member?
What Is the State Motto of Arizona?
Who are the Erie Indians?
How Do Most Americans Find out about News and Current Events?
What is the American Independent Party?
What Is the State Motto of Oregon?
Why Is California Called the Golden State?
What is the ACLU?
What Is the Separation of Powers?
What Is the Anti-Slavery Movement?
Who are the Ohlone Indians?
Why Is Washington Called the Evergreen State?
What is the March of Dimes?
What is the Minuteman Project?
What are the Causes of Poverty in Appalachia?
What is the National Woman Suffrage Association?
Who are the Mohawk Indians?
What is a Special Election?
What is an Army MOS?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What are Tribal Politics?
What is the Lone Gunman Theory?
What Is the History of the Florida State Quarter?
What Was the Population of the U.S. Throughout Its History?
What is the Socialist Party?
Who Were the Pilgrims?
What Factors Led to the End of Reconstruction?
In the United States, How is the Poverty Line Determined?
What does the US Air Force do?
Who are the Serrano Indians?
What is the Wagner Act?
What is the Shoshone Tribe?
Why Is Illinois Called the "Land of Lincoln"?
What Is a State Song?
What is a Jayhawker?
What is the Progressive Movement?
Why Is Maine Called the Pine Tree State?
What Is the National Mall?
What is the Railway Labor Act?
What Is the State Motto of South Carolina?
What is the Chippewa Tribe?
What is Supplemental Appropriation?
What is the Miwok Tribe?
What is the Cheddar Curtain?
In the United States, what are the Three Branches of Government?
What is Mount McKinley?
What is the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act?
Who are the Shoshone Indians?
What is the Domino Theory?
What is the Federalist Party?
What are the Key Events in Apache Indian History?
What is an Altered Birth Certificate?
What are State Symbols?
What are the Oldest American Cities?
What is the Harrison Act?
Why Is Colorado Called the Centennial State?
What Are the Rocky Mountains?
What Is the State Song of Hawaii?
What is the Federal Farm Loan Act?
What Is the 24th Amendment?
What Are the Key Events of Navajo History?
What are Some Criticisms of No Child Left Behind?
Why Is Kansas Called the Sunflower State?
What is the Advanced Research Projects Agency?
What Was the Rampart Scandal?
What Is the State Animal of Virginia?
What Is the 26th Amendment?
Why Is North Carolina Called the Tar Heel State?
What Is the State Tree of Virginia?
Why Is Ohio Called the Buckeye State?
Why Is Rhode Island Called the Ocean State?
What is the Continental Army?
What Is the State Flower of Georgia?
What Is the State Tree of Alabama?
What Is the Grand Canyon?
Who are the Kickapoo Indians?
What Is the State Tree of Massachusetts?
What Is the State Flower of Virginia?
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
In the United States, How do I get an Initiative on the Ballot?
What is Army Airborne School?
Who are the Arapaho Indians?
What are Hobo Signs?
What is the Ways and Means Committee?
What is the Continental Divide?
What are Common Green Card Interview Questions?
What is Virtual Representation?
Why Is Louisiana Called the Pelican State?
What is the Platt Amendment?
What is the United States Postal Service?
Who are the Seminole Indians?
What is the Arapaho Tribe?
What is a Senatorial Courtesy?
What is the Historical Importance of Appomattox?
Can a US Attorney Practice in Any US State?
What is Dual Federalism?
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?
Why Is Wyoming Called the Cowboy State?
What is a Formula Grant?
Why Is Nevada Called the Silver State?
What is Certified Mail&Trade;?
What Is the State Song of Tennessee?
Who are the Powhatan Indians?
What is the Progressive Party?
What is the Hepburn Act?
What is Sing Sing Correctional Facility?
Who are the Catawba Indians?
What is the Second Great Awakening?
What Is the Equal Rights Amendment?
Who are the Osage Indians?
Why Is Virginia Called Old Dominion?
What is the U.S. Budget and Where does the Money Go?
In the US, what is the DMV?
What is the Seventh Amendment to the US Constitution?
What is an Omnibus Bill?
What Is the Significance of a Yellow Ribbon?
How Many US States Have One Syllable?
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Who are the Green Berets?
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
What Is the State Tree of North Carolina?
What Is the State Motto of Michigan?
What is the HITECH ACT?
What is the Greenback Party?
What Is a State Capital?
What Are the Largest Lakes in the US?
What is Death Valley?
What Is the History of the State Seal of Pennsylvania?
What is the Empire State Building?
How did the Name "Beantown" Originate?
What Is the State Motto of Missouri?
What is the Assiniboine Tribe?
Who are the Yuma Indians?
What is the Mojave Desert?
What Is the History of Idaho's State Flag?
Why do Students Recite the Pledge of Allegiance?
What Is the State Tree of South Carolina?
What Is the 13th Amendment?
In the US, is It Illegal to get Married Before You'Re 18?
What is the Highway Patrol?
What Is the Anti-Slavery Society?
Why Is Indiana Called the Hoosier State?
What Is the State Bird of New Jersey?
Who are the Iroquois Native Americans?
What Is the State Animal of Oregon?
How Do Prisoners in California Help Fight Wildfires?
What Is the State Bird of New York?
What is the Prohibition Party?
What Is the History of the State Seal of Indiana?
What is the Homeland Security Act?
What Is the Brooklyn Bridge?
What is the Presidential Protective Division?
In US Politics, what is a Nomination by Acclamation?
What is the History of the Pledge of Allegiance?
What is the United States Cabinet?
Do State Governors Deal with Congress in Any Way?
What are the Catskills?
What Was Tammany Hall?
What is an Air Force Squadron?
What Is the State Animal of Indiana?
What is the Electronic Funds Transfer Act?
What is the Number of Justices on the Supreme Court?
What are the Marine Corps Special Forces?
What Does "Hooah!" Stand for?
What is the Omaha Tribe?
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
What Is the State Flower of Pennsylvania?
What Is the State Song of Michigan?
What is the Populist Party?
What is Andersonville Prison?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Which US State Is the Most Densely Populated?
What Is a State Insect?
What are the Requirements to Run for President in the United States?
Who is the Commander-In-Chief of the US Military?
What is a Majority Whip?
Why is the Elephant a Symbol of the Republican Party?
What is a Naturalized Citizen?
Why Is Alaska Called the Last Frontier?
Where are the High Radon Areas in the US?
Why Is Seattle Called the "Emerald City"?
What Was the Whitewater Scandal?
What Percent of the US Population do Teachers Comprise?
What Are the Characteristics of Native American Culture?
What Is the State Animal of Washington?
What is the Greatest Generation?
Do Most Americans Have a Retirement Plan?
Who are the Apache Indians?
What is Generation Jones?
Do I Have to Respond to the ACS?
Which Country First Recognized US Independence?
What Was the Asian Exclusion Act?
Are There Any Penalties for Taking out the Trash Incorrectly?
What Is the National Flower of the USA?
What Is the State Motto of Massachusetts?
Why Is Idaho Called the Gem State?
What is the First New Deal?
In US Politics, what is a Purple State?
Under the Controlled Substances Act, what are the Five Classes of Controlled Substances?
What are the Different Navy SEALs Weapons?
What is the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution?
What is the Homeowners Protection Act?
What are Slave Codes?
How Much do Americans Spend on Eating out?
What Is the State Animal of Alaska?
What Is the State Animal of Minnesota?
Why Is New Mexico Called the Land of Enchantment?
What is the Process for US Citizenship?
Why Is Las Vegas Called "Sin City"?
What Is Onion Snow?
What is the Painted Desert?
What is the Balance of Power?
What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
What Is Yankee White?
Why is Utah Called the Beehive State?
How Many Left-Handed Presidents Has the US Had?
What is the Mainstream Media?
What is Americana?
What Does the Department of Homeland Security Do?
What Is Georgia's State Animal?
How Many US Presidents Were First-Born Sons?
What is Broadway?
Why is Denver Called the Mile High City?
What is the Dakota Tribe?
When are Flags Put at Half Mast?
What Is the State Motto of Virginia?
What Is the Age of Jackson?
What Is the State Song of Oklahoma?
What Is the State Nickname of Florida?
What Are Progressive Democrats?
Why Is Florida Called the Sunshine State?
What is a Hudson's Bay Point Blanket?
Why is Pennsylvania Called the Keystone State?
What Is the Relationship between the US Media and Politicians?
Should the United States Stop Using Pennies?
What Are the Legal Requirements for Marriage in the United States?
What is ROTC?
What Happened on September 11, 2001?
What Is the State Motto of Alaska?
Why Is Hawaii Called the Aloha State?
What is the Job of the United States Vice President?
Why Is Alabama Called the Yellowhammer State?
What Was the American Civil War?
What Does "Remember the Maine" Mean?
What is a National Park?
Who are the Shasta Indians?
Why Is St. Louis Called the "Gateway to the West"?
What Is the State Tree of Pennsylvania?
What Is a State Seal?
What is the President Pro Tempore of the Senate?
What is the Works Progress Administration?
What are the Different Types of Military Ribbons?
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
What is the Women's Army Corps?
What Is the State Motto of Texas?
What Does "Sensitive but Unclassified" Mean?
What is the Senate Judiciary Committee?
What is Air Force Boot Camp?
Why is Tennessee Known As the Volunteer State?
Why Is Minnesota Called the North Star State?
Why Was Alabama Called the Cotton State?
Who are the Luiseno Indians?
What Is the 12th Amendment?
What is a Hanging Chad?
What are the Characteristics of Apache Clothing?
What is the Marines Delayed Entry Program?
Who are the Walla Walla Indians?
What is a Spoil System?
How did the Southern US get to be Called Dixie?
How Many US Presidents Had Brown Eyes?
Why Is Oregon Called the Beaver State?
What Was the Result of the Spanish-American War?
What is the Term for Supreme Court Justices?
Who are the Pomo Indians?
What Is a State Nickname?
What are Enumerated Powers?
What is the Hupa Tribe?
What is the Poverty Level in the United States?
What is the Yurok Tribe?
What is a Commuter Town?
What is the Philadelphia Convention?
Why Is Detroit Called the "Motor City"?
What Is the 22nd Amendment?
Why Is Pittsburgh Called the "Steel City"?
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
What Was the Flapper Era?
Why Is Illinois Called the Prairie State?
Why Is Kentucky Called the Bluegrass State?
What Is the 27th Amendment?
What is Soft Money?
What are Alabama Indians?
What Happened in Roswell, New Mexico?
What Was the Tailhook Scandal?
What is Mad-Dogging?
Why Is Michigan Called the Great Lakes State?
What are the Different Kinds of Native American Rituals?
Why Is Nebraska Called the Cornhusker State?
What is Ghost Voting?
What is the Bradley Effect?
What is the Non-Intercourse Act?
What is the Wichita Tribe?
Who are the Mohawk People?
What is the War on Terror?
What Was the Tuskegee Experiment?
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
What is the Pentagon?
What Is the US Postal Service Motto?
What is the Wampanoag Tribe?
How do I Know if I Have an FBI File?
What Is the State Tree of Wyoming?
What is the Pima Tribe?
What is the Whig Party?
What Is the State Motto of Maine?
What is La Migra?
What is the Crow Tribe?
What Is the Huron Tribe?
What is the Chinook Tribe?
What is a Conservative Democrat?
What is the GOP?
What is the Army Corps of Engineers?
What Is the New Left?
How Many Islands are in the San Francisco Bay?
Did the Pony Express Use Ponies or Horses?
Who are the Cheyenne Indians?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
What Is the National Bird of the USA?
Why Was Cincinnati Once Known As Porkopolis?
What is the Second New Deal?
What is the Pomo Tribe?
What is the Constitution Party?
What are Sioux Indians?
What Was the Contract with America?
What is the Quapaw Tribe?
What is the Doctrine of Incorporation?
What are CAFE Standards?
Who are the Hupa Indians?
How Did the Dawes Act Affect Native Americans?
What is the Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution?
How Many Plastic Bags Do Americans Use Each Year?
What is the Copyright Clause?
What is the United States Department of Labor Responsible for?
What are Slavery Reparations?
Who are the Pawnee Indians?
What are Some Criticisms of the Electoral College?
What is a Duck and Cover Drill?
What Is the State Nickname of New York?
Why Is Massachusetts Called the Bay State?
What Is the State Animal of Hawaii?
Why Is South Carolina Called the Palmetto State?
What Were the Major War of 1812 Battles?
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
Why Is Vermont Called the Green Mountain State?
What is the Hatch Act?
What does the United States Department of the Interior do?
What Is the State Song of New York?
What Is the State Tree of California?
What is a Greenback?
Why Is New York Called the Empire State?
What is a Cow County?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
What is the Fattest American State?
What is Siouxland?
What is High Society?
What is Neo-Conservatism?
Who are the Ojibwa Indians?
What Is the Sagebrush Rebellion?
What is a Milker Bill?
What is the Reagan Doctrine?
What is the American Federation of Labor?
What is the Menominee Tribe?
What is Political Culture?
What Is Colonial Slavery?
What Is the State Bird of Illinois?
What Is the State Animal of California?
What Is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act?
Who are the Calusa Indians?
What Is the State Song of Maine?
What is a Marine Corps Officer?
What is the Labor-Management Relations Act?
Who are the Potawatomi Indians?
What Is the Longest US War?
What Is the State Song of New Jersey?
What is the Individual Ready Reserve?
Why Is West Virginia Called the Mountain State?
Does Voting Actually Matter?
What Was Bank Night?
What Is the George Washington Carver Museum?
What is the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution?
What is the Speaker of the House?
What is a Limousine Liberal?
What Was Special Field Order 15?
What Is a State Motto?
Who are the Washoe Indians?
What is a Five and Dime?
What is an Anti-Republican?
What Is the State Flower of North Carolina?
What Is the 23rd Amendment?
What is a Bushwacker?
What Is the State Flower of Maine?
What is the Blanket Primary?
What is the Anaconda Plan?
What Was the Apollo Program?
What Was Riding the Rails?
What are Some Major American Landmarks?
What is a Simple Resolution?
In the US, Where is the Residence of the Vice President?
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
What is an Army Reserve Officer?
What is the American Party System?
What is a Divided Government?
What is a State Bird?
What Is the State Bird of West Virginia?
What is the American Communist Party?
How Many Hours Does the Average US Person Work per Year?
Why Is North Dakota Called the Peace Garden State?
Why is Delaware Known As the First State?
What is a Western Saloon?
What is the Fox Tribe?
What are the Requirements for Navy Reserve Retirement?
What Is the Connection between Cotton and Slavery?
What is the Oval Office?
What is the Crow Nation?
What Is the State Animal of Florida?
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