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The United States (2094 Articles)
What is a Naturalized Citizen?
What is IOKIYAR?
How Big are the States in America?
What is the Federalist Party?
What Is the History of Idaho's State Flag?
What are the Requirements to Run for President in the United States?
What Is the History of the Florida State Quarter?
What Is the 14th Amendment?
What are Slave Codes?
Can I Really Fight a Traffic Ticket?
Who are the Mohegan Indians?
What Is the Dawes Act?
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
What Is the State Tree of Wyoming?
What Is the State Motto of Oregon?
What is the Cheddar Curtain?
In the United States, what are the Three Branches of Government?
What is La Migra?
What is the Historical Importance of Appomattox?
What is the Bradley Effect?
What is the Age Discrimination in Employment Act?
Why do Students Recite the Pledge of Allegiance?
What Is Colonial Slavery?
What is Generation Jones?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What is the Southern Strategy?
What is the Patriot Party?
What is the Defense of Marriage Act?
What are Slavery Reparations?
Who are the Catawba Indians?
Why Is Seattle Called the "Emerald City"?
Does the US President Have the Right to Pardon Himself?
What Types of Jobs do Americans Have?
What is a Majority Whip?
What Is the National Flower of the USA?
Why is the Elephant a Symbol of the Republican Party?
Why Is Alaska Called the Last Frontier?
Why Is Maine Called the Pine Tree State?
What Was the Population of the U.S. Throughout Its History?
Why Is Las Vegas Called "Sin City"?
What is Americana?
What Is the Significance of a Yellow Ribbon?
What Is the State Motto of Massachusetts?
Why is Utah Called the Beehive State?
Why Is Iowa Called the Hawkeye State?
What is the EPA?
What is the ACLU?
What Caused the Levees to Break in New Orleans During Hurricane Katrina?
How Much do Americans Spend on Eating out?
What Are Progressive Democrats?
What is a Conservative Democrat?
What is the Central Intelligence Agency?
Why is Missouri Called the Show-Me State?
Under the Controlled Substances Act, what are the Five Classes of Controlled Substances?
What Is the History of the State Flag of Alabama?
What is the American Independent Party?
What is the Painted Desert?
Why is Tennessee Known As the Volunteer State?
What is a Blue Light Special?
Why is New York Called the Big Apple?
Why is Denver Called the Mile High City?
What Happened on September 11, 2001?
What is the Revolutionary Era?
Why Is Hawaii Called the Aloha State?
What is the Job of the United States Vice President?
What is the Blanket Primary?
What is Rikers Island Prison?
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
What Is Yankee White?
What is Broadway?
What are the Most Popular Names for a Baby in the United States?
What are the Oldest American Cities?
Why Is New Mexico Called the Land of Enchantment?
What is the Wild West?
What Is the State Motto of Virginia?
What are the Different Homeland Security Agencies?
In the United States, How is the Poverty Line Determined?
What Is the Brooklyn Bridge?
Why Is Idaho Called the Gem State?
Why Is Wyoming Called the Cowboy State?
What Is a State Insect?
What Is the State Motto of Georgia?
What is a Signing Statement?
What is a Ranking Member?
Who are the Erie Indians?
What Should I Know about the Mammy Archetype?
Who are the Ojibwa Indians?
What is Air Force Boot Camp?
What is the Morrill Act?
What Was the American Civil War?
What Is the Huron Tribe?
What does It Mean to be a US Citizen?
What Is the New Left?
What Is the Lautenberg Amendment?
Why Is Kentucky Called the Bluegrass State?
What Are the Rocky Mountains?
What are the Different Navy SEALs Weapons?
What is a Simple Resolution?
Why Is North Dakota Called the Peace Garden State?
What is a Congressional Caucus?
Why is Delaware Known As the First State?
Why Is Minnesota Called the North Star State?
In California, what is Prop 13?
Why Is Montana Called the Treasure State?
What Happens When a Military Base is Decommissioned?
What is a Jayhawker?
What Is Reconstruction?
What Is a State Seal?
What Was the Result of the Spanish-American War?
What is the President Pro Tempore of the Senate?
What is the Electronic Funds Transfer Act?
What are the Different Types of Military Ribbons?
What is an Omnibus Bill?
What are Enumerated Powers?
What is Army Airborne School?
What is a Hanging Chad?
Why Is North Carolina Called the Tar Heel State?
What is Operation Just Cause?
What can I do to Celebrate the Fourth of July?
What is a Hillbilly?
What is the War Powers Act?
What is the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA)?
What is the Logan Act?
What Is the State Animal of Texas?
How do I Know if I Have an FBI File?
What Is the Grand Canyon?
Why Is South Dakota Called the Mount Rushmore State?
Who are the Chippewa Indians?
What is the United States Department of the Treasury Responsible for?
Why Is Washington Called the Evergreen State?
What is the Populist Party?
Who are the Yuma Indians?
What Is the 22nd Amendment?
What are Tribal Politics?
What is the Lone Gunman Theory?
What Are the Most Common Currency Bills in the US?
What is the Railway Labor Act?
What is the Labor-Management Relations Act?
What is Mad-Dogging?
Why Is Michigan Called the Great Lakes State?
What Was the Rampart Scandal?
What are the Characteristics of Apache Clothing?
What Is the State Motto of Maryland?
What are Hobo Signs?
Why Is Nashville Called "Music City"?
What is a Krewe?
Why Is Pittsburgh Called the "Steel City"?
What Is the State Tree of Hawaii?
What is the Fattest American State?
Who are the Huron Indians?
What is the Speaker of the House?
Who Were the Pilgrims?
What Is the Anti-Slavery Movement?
What is a Standing Committee?
What is the Philadelphia Convention?
Who are the Mohawk Indians?
What is the Non-Intercourse Act?
What are the Marine Corps Reserves?
Which Historical Figures Have Statues in Central Park?
What is RICO?
Who are the Cheyenne Indians?
What Is the State Motto of Florida?
Who is the Postmaster General?
What is the Omaha Tribe?
In the United States, How do I get an Initiative on the Ballot?
What are Sioux Indians?
What Is the State Nickname of Florida?
What is Friendly Fire?
What is the Doctrine of Incorporation?
Who are the Mohawk People?
Who Owns the Most Land in America?
What is the Committee on Public Information?
What Is the State Song of Hawaii?
What Is the National Bird of the USA?
What Is the State Motto of Maine?
What is Jefferson Island?
What is a Duck and Cover Drill?
What Is the State Motto of Tennessee?
Has the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame Ever Been Extinguished?
Who are the Osage Indians?
What is a Divided Government?
What Is the 17th Amendment?
What is Death Valley?
What is a Navy Recruiter?
What are the Lakota Sioux?
What is the Hupa Tribe?
What Is the State Bird of Mississippi?
What is a Senatorial Courtesy?
What Is the State Song of New Jersey?
What is the Yurok Tribe?
What is the Red to Blue Program?
What does the Fourth of July Celebrate?
What is an Air Force Squadron?
What is Tin Pan Alley?
What Was the Whitewater Scandal?
What is a Presidential Inauguration?
What Is the 13th Amendment?
In the US, what is the DMV?
What Is the State Flower of Pennsylvania?
What is Pearl Harbor?
What is Ellis Island?
Who are the Ottawa Indians?
What is a Hudson's Bay Point Blanket?
Can You Spell the Word Criminal from Any Presidential Names?
What is Unique About the Appalachian Region?
How Much does US Tap Water Cost?
How Much does It Cost to Conduct the US Census?
What Is the State Motto of Kansas?
What Is the War of Northern Aggression?
What is the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act?
What is the Liberty Bell?
Who are Fox Indians?
What are Pumpkins Sold in the US Primarily Used for?
Which Country First Recognized US Independence?
What Is the State Rock of Texas?
Who are the Miami Indians?
What is the Lakota Tribe?
How Many Hours Does the Average US Person Work per Year?
Why Is Kansas Called the Sunflower State?
What Is the Reconstruction Act?
Who are the Pawnee Indians?
What Is the State Animal of Virginia?
What Is the State Nickname of New York?
What Is the State Motto of Pennsylvania?
What is the Continental Congress?
Why Is Virginia Called Old Dominion?
What is the Pentagon?
What Is the State Bird of Indiana?
What is the Women's Armed Services Integration Act?
What Were Major Problems for Women in Slavery?
What Was the Last State to Repeal Prohibition?
Who are the Walla Walla Indians?
What are State Symbols?
What is a Formula Grant?
Who is Aaron Burr?
What is the Pima-Maricopa Indian Community?
Who are the Powhatan Indians?
Who are the Pima Indians?
What does the United States Department of the Interior do?
Who Convinced Abraham Lincoln to Grow a Beard?
What is Bike to Work Day?
Who are the Ohlone Indians?
What is a Waiver of Inadmissibility?
Who Were the Anti-Federalists?
In the US, is It Illegal to get Married Before You'Re 18?
What Is the State Song of Maine?
What is Saint Grottlesex?
Who are the Crow Indians?
What is the Zuni Tribe?
How Many Single People Are There in the US?
How does Outsourcing Affect the U.S. Economy?
How Many US Presidents Had Brown Eyes?
What Percent of the US Population do Teachers Comprise?
Why Is Detroit Called the "Motor City"?
What is the Difference Between a US Senator and a US Representative?
What is a Platinum Triangle?
In Politics, what is Public Opinion?
What is the Poverty Level in the United States?
What is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)?
What is a Filibuster?
What is the Third Amendment of the US Constitution?
What Is a Q Clearance?
What does the Term "Anchor Baby" Mean?
What is the Seventh Amendment to the US Constitution?
In Politics, what is Swiftboating?
What Factors Led to the End of Reconstruction?
What is the Advanced Research Projects Agency?
What is Sing Sing Correctional Facility?
What Is the 12th Amendment?
Why Is Massachusetts Called the Bay State?
What is a Special Election?
What is the Equal Pay Act of 1963?
What Is Yellowstone Lake?
Do I Have to Respond to the ACS?
What is the Opposition Party?
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
What is a Bushwacker?
How Many Zip Codes are in the United States?
What is the Constitution Party?
What is Andersonville Prison?
What is Representative Democracy?
What is a Spoil System?
Why is Connecticut Called the Constitution State?
What is the Homeowners Protection Act?
What Are the Characteristics of Native American Culture?
What are the Requirements for Running for Congress?
How Many Left-Handed Presidents Has the US Had?
What Was the Asian Exclusion Act?
Who is the Commander-In-Chief of the US Military?
What is the Federal Poverty Level?
Why Is California Called the Golden State?
What is a Bedroom Community?
What is a Planned Community?
In US Politics, what is a Purple State?
What is the Greatest Generation?
Where are the High Radon Areas in the US?
What is the Bill of Rights?
What is the 'Hood?
How Many US Presidents Were First-Born Sons?
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Does Voting Actually Matter?
How did the Southern US get to be Called Dixie?
What Is the State Song of Louisiana?
What is the Mainstream Media?
Who are the Mohican Indians?
How Many United States Presidents Were Governors First?
What Was the Chappaquiddick Incident?
What is the Reagan Doctrine?
What Does "Remember the Maine" Mean?
Why is Pennsylvania Called the Keystone State?
Why Is Louisiana Called the Pelican State?
What Is the 27th Amendment?
What Is the State Motto of Texas?
What Factors Lead to the Failure of Reconstruction?
What Is the Separation of Powers?
Who are the Sioux People?
What is a Greenback?
What is a National Park?
Why Is Florida Called the Sunshine State?
What is the First New Deal?
What is the Working Families Party?
What Are the Legal Requirements for Marriage in the United States?
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
Why Is Boston Called the "Cradle of Liberty"?
What is the Senate Judiciary Committee?
What is the Balance of Power?
What Is the Sagebrush Rebellion?
What Was the Hollywood Blacklist?
What Is the State Animal of Alaska?
Should the United States Stop Using Pennies?
Why Is Wisconsin Called the Badger State?
What Was the Tuskegee Experiment?
What is the Harrison Act?
What is the US Secretary of Education?
Who are the Missouri Indians?
What is the Progressive Party?
What Was the Tailhook Scandal?
Why Was Cincinnati Once Known As Porkopolis?
Who are the Luiseno Indians?
What Is the State Song of Mississippi?
What is Dual Federalism?
Why Is Rhode Island Called the Ocean State?
What is the Continental Army?
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
What Is the State Animal of Washington?
What is the Process for US Citizenship?
Why Is Vermont Called the Green Mountain State?
What is the Pima Tribe?
What are Some Criticisms of No Child Left Behind?
What Is the State Nickname of Texas?
What are the Duties of the Secret Service?
What is Graft?
What is a Commuter Town?
Why Is Illinois Called the "Land of Lincoln"?
Why Is St. Louis Called the "Gateway to the West"?
What Is the State Tree of Pennsylvania?
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
What is Certified Mail&Trade;?
Why Is Illinois Called the Prairie State?
What Is a State Capital?
Why can't Pollsters Call Cell Phones?
What Is Onion Snow?
What is Navy Officer Training?
What does the US Air Force do?
Why Is Nebraska Called the Cornhusker State?
What Was the Cause of the War of 1812?
What Is the State Tree of North Carolina?
What Is the State Animal of Minnesota?
What Is the State Animal of Indiana?
What is the Greenback Party?
What Is the State Animal of California?
Did the Pony Express Use Ponies or Horses?
What Is the State Motto of Arizona?
What is the Peace and Freedom Party?
What is the Women's Army Corps?
What is the Empire State Building?
What Does "Sensitive but Unclassified" Mean?
What Is the State Motto of Missouri?
Why Was Alabama Called the Cotton State?
What are the Different Kinds of Native American Rituals?
Who are the Serrano Indians?
What is the Marines Delayed Entry Program?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Why Is Nevada Called the Silver State?
Who Was the First US President to be Born in a Hospital?
Why Is Oklahoma Called the Sooner State?
What Is the Continuity of Operations Plan?
What is Jamestown?
What Is the Louisiana Territory?
What is the Second New Deal?
What is the Domino Theory?
What is a SWAT Team?
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Who are the Southern Democrats?
What Is a State Motto?
What Is a State Song?
What Is the State Song of Colorado?
What Is the State Song of Tennessee?
What is the U.S. Budget and Where does the Money Go?
What is High Society?
What is the Hatch Act?
What Is Georgia's State Animal?
How Many US States Have One Syllable?
What Was the Gadsden Purchase?
What are the Causes of Poverty in Appalachia?
Why Is Indiana Called the Hoosier State?
Why Is New York Called the Empire State?
What is the Army Corps of Engineers?
What is the National Youth Administration?
What is ROTC?
What is the Mojave Phone Booth?
What does an Air Force Major do?
What is Neo-Conservatism?
What Is the State Motto of New Mexico?
Why Is Alabama Called the Yellowhammer State?
What are Some Criticisms of the Electoral College?
Who are the Green Berets?
What are the Key Events in Apache Indian History?
Why Is Ohio Called the Buckeye State?
What is the United States National Radio Quiet Zone?
What is a Five and Dime?
What Is the State Motto of South Carolina?
What Is the Privacy Amendment?
What Does the Department of Homeland Security Do?
What is the Mohican Tribe?
What is the Homeland Security Act?
What is the American Federation of Labor?
What is Political Culture?
What Is the State Motto of Michigan?
What is the Progressive Movement?
Why Is Colorado Called the Centennial State?
What Is the State Flower of Idaho?
What Is the State Bird of South Dakota?
What is the Whig Party?
What Is the Age of Jackson?
What Is the History of the State Seal of Indiana?
What Is the State Motto of Illinois?
What Is the State Song of New York?
What Is the State Motto of Nevada?
Who are the Arapaho Indians?
What Is the State Motto of Colorado?
How Many United States Presidents Were Senators First?
What is the California Republic?
What is the War on Terror?
What Happened at the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
What Is the State Motto of Louisiana?
What Was Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President?
When are Flags Put at Half Mast?
What is Patriots' Day?
What is the Statue of Liberty?
What is Ghost Voting?
Who are the Apache Indians?
What is the Presidential Protective Division?
Who are the Lenape Indians?
What Is Lake Pontchartrain?
What Was the Flapper Era?
What Was the Oregon Trail?
What is the Socialist Party?
What Is the State Tree of California?
What is the National Television Standards Committee?
What Was the Contract with America?
What Is Hawaii's State Flower?
Why Is Oregon Called the Beaver State?
What Were the Major War of 1812 Battles?
What Is the National Mall?
What is a Creek Indian Reservation?
What is a Joint Session of Congress?
What Is the Children's Memorial Hospital?
What Is the Plymouth Colony?
What is the United States Department of Labor Responsible for?
What Is a State Butterfly?
What are the Different Aspects of the Choctaw Tribe?
What Is the State Motto of Indiana?
Which US State Is the Most Densely Populated?
What Was the Golden Spike?
How Many Islands are in the San Francisco Bay?
In US Politics, what is a Nomination by Acclamation?
What Is the State Song of Oklahoma?
What is the Difference Between a Caucus and a Primary?
What Was Tammany Hall?
What is an Altered Birth Certificate?
What is Diamond Head?
What is a Cow County?
What is CASS&Trade; Certification?
What Is the Most Common Birthday in the United States?
What Is the US Postal Service Motto?
Why is New Jersey Called the Garden State?
What is Big Brothers Big Sisters of America?
What are the US Time Zones?
Which States did Not Originally Ratify the 13th Amendment?
What is New Federalism?
What is a Milker Bill?
What is the HITECH ACT?
What are Some Major American Landmarks?
What Are the Key Events of Navajo History?
What is the Hatch-Waxman Act?
What are the Catskills?
What are Fairgrounds?
What is the Nixon Doctrine?
What is the Socialist Workers Party?
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