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The United States (2138 Articles)
What is the Economic Stimulus Package of 2008?
Which US State Is the Most Densely Populated?
What Is a Q Clearance?
What is the War Powers Act?
How Big are the States in America?
What is a Majority Whip?
What is Rikers Island Prison?
What Was the Cause of the War of 1812?
What Is the State Animal of Minnesota?
What is the First New Deal?
What is the Progressive Movement?
What Was the Result of the Spanish-American War?
What is the Southern Strategy?
What is the Mainstream Media?
What does the Surgeon General do?
What is the Federal Poverty Level?
What Is the National Flower of the USA?
What Are the Characteristics of Native American Culture?
What is the Second Great Awakening?
What does It Mean to be a US Citizen?
What Was the Tuskegee Experiment?
What Was the Asian Exclusion Act?
What is American Exceptionalism?
What is the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution?
What Percent of the US Population do Teachers Comprise?
Why Is California Called the Golden State?
What are the Different Homeland Security Agencies?
What is the 'Hood?
Is Swearing More Acceptable in Certain U.S. States?
Why is Utah Called the Beehive State?
What is the Difference Between a US Senator and a US Representative?
What is Tin Pan Alley?
In US Politics, what is a Purple State?
What is the Process for US Citizenship?
What is the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution?
What is the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution?
What Factors Lead to the Failure of Reconstruction?
In the United States, what are the Three Branches of Government?
In the US, Where is the Residence of the Vice President?
What are Slave Codes?
What is the Philadelphia Convention?
Who are the Mohawk Indians?
What is the GOP?
Why is Denver Called the Mile High City?
What are the Requirements to Run for President in the United States?
What is the War on Terror?
What is the Harrison Act?
Why Is Kentucky Called the Bluegrass State?
What is the Works Progress Administration?
What is the Wampanoag Tribe?
What is Super Tuesday?
What are the US Time Zones?
What is the Balance of Power?
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What is a Blue Light Special?
What is the Difference Between a Caucus and a Primary?
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
What Is the Connection between Cotton and Slavery?
Does Voting Actually Matter?
Why Is Pittsburgh Called the "Steel City"?
What is the Senate Candy Desk?
What Happened on September 11, 2001?
What Is the 24th Amendment?
What Is the State Motto of Texas?
What is the Empire State Building?
What Is the State Nickname of Texas?
What Factors Led to the End of Reconstruction?
What Is the Anti-Slavery Movement?
What is Pearl Harbor?
What are Yellow Dog Democrats?
Does the US President Have the Right to Pardon Himself?
What is an Army MOS?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
What is the Innocence Project?
What Are the Most Common Currency Bills in the US?
What Is the 27th Amendment?
Under the Controlled Substances Act, what are the Five Classes of Controlled Substances?
Why Is Las Vegas Called "Sin City"?
What is Jamestown?
What is Air Force Boot Camp?
What is the Morrill Act?
What is a Bedroom Community?
Why Is Washington Called the Evergreen State?
What are Some Criticisms of the Electoral College?
What are the Causes of Poverty in Appalachia?
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
Is Watermelon a Fruit or a Vegetable?
What is the Non-Intercourse Act?
What Is the Equal Rights Amendment?
What Is the State Animal of Hawaii?
What Is Colonial Slavery?
What is the Central Intelligence Agency?
Why Is Wisconsin Called the Badger State?
Who Were the Anti-Federalists?
What Factors Brought about the Abolishment of Slavery?
What Is the State Song of Louisiana?
What is the Number of Justices on the Supreme Court?
What Is the 17th Amendment?
What is the Communications Decency Act?
What is the Whig Party?
Who Were the Pilgrims?
What Is Georgia's State Animal?
How Many US States Have One Syllable?
What is Graft?
What Was the Rampart Scandal?
What is a Duck and Cover Drill?
What Does "Remember the Maine" Mean?
Has the United States Historically Been Opposed to Immigration?
Why Is North Carolina Called the Tar Heel State?
What Is a State Song?
What is IOKIYAR?
Did Women in Wyoming Have the Right to Vote before the 19th Amendment?
Why Is Illinois Called the Prairie State?
What is the Fattest American State?
What Started Slavery in America?
Do Pledged Delegates Have to Vote a Specific Way?
Why Is Iowa Called the Hawkeye State?
What is the Women's Army Corps?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
What Is the State Motto of Virginia?
What is the Korean War Veterans Memorial?
What is the Painted Desert?
Which States did Not Originally Ratify the 13th Amendment?
What is the Second New Deal?
What Is the Longest US War?
What is the Homeland Security Act?
Who are the Luiseno Indians?
What is the Wagner Act?
What is the American Federation of Labor?
What is a Swing State?
What is an Executive Agreement?
Why Is Illinois Called the "Land of Lincoln"?
What are CAFE Standards?
What Is the State Song of Tennessee?
What is the Railway Labor Act?
What is the Committee on Public Information?
What Is the State Motto of Florida?
What Is the 23rd Amendment?
Who are the Powhatan Indians?
Why is Delaware Known As the First State?
What is Mad-Dogging?
What is New Federalism?
What Is the State Motto of Missouri?
How Many US Presidents Were First-Born Sons?
Why Is Montana Called the Treasure State?
What is Shoefiti?
Why Is Massachusetts Called the Bay State?
What is a Special Election?
What Is Hawaii's State Flower?
What is the Third Amendment of the US Constitution?
What Is the State Tree of Pennsylvania?
What Was the Whitewater Scandal?
What is a Divided Government?
What Is the State Song of Virginia?
What is a Ranking Member?
Why Is Boston Called the "Cradle of Liberty"?
What is Neo-Conservatism?
What is the Progressive Party?
What Was the Tailhook Scandal?
What Is the State Motto of Washington?
What Is the State Song of New York?
What does the US Air Force do?
What is the People's Party?
What Is the State Song of Mississippi?
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
What Is the Gang of Eight?
What Is the State Motto of Pennsylvania?
Who are the Iroquois Native Americans?
What is the Continental Army?
What Is the Dawes Act?
In Congress, what is an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute?
Why Is Virginia Called Old Dominion?
What Is the State Motto of North Carolina?
What is the President Pro Tempore of the Senate?
What Is the State Motto of South Carolina?
What Is the State Motto of Alaska?
What Is the Treaty of Ghent?
What Is a State Nickname?
What does the United States Department of Education do?
What is the Advanced Research Projects Agency?
Why Was Alabama Called the Cotton State?
What is the March of Dimes?
What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
What Is Yankee White?
What is the Federalist Party?
What Is a State Motto?
How did the Southern US get to be Called Dixie?
What is the Lummi Tribe?
What Is a State Seal?
What Was the Population of the U.S. Throughout Its History?
What is a State Flower?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Who are the Pawnee Indians?
What is a Tar Heel?
What is the Chinook Tribe?
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?
What Is the 22nd Amendment?
What is a Spoil System?
What is an Air Force Squadron?
What Is Yellowstone Lake?
How Many US Presidents Had Brown Eyes?
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
What is the US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development?
What is the Yakima Tribe?
What is Americana?
What is the Senate Judiciary Committee?
What is the Cheddar Curtain?
What is the Cahuilla Tribe?
What is the Poverty Level in the United States?
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act?
What Is the Huron Tribe?
What is Dual Federalism?
Why Is New Hampshire Called the Granite State?
What are the Oldest American Cities?
Why Is Louisiana Called the Pelican State?
What Is the State Rock of Texas?
Who Was the First US President to Be Born in a Hospital?
What Are the Rocky Mountains?
What is AIPAC?
Do All U.S. States Have Sales Tax?
What is the Comanche Tribe?
What is the Statue of Liberty?
What is the Women's Armed Services Integration Act?
What is the Anaconda Plan?
How Effective Is California at Generating Solar Power?
What are Hobo Signs?
What Is the History of the State Flag of Tennessee?
What is the United States National Radio Quiet Zone?
Why Is Nevada Called the Silver State?
Why Is Oregon Called the Beaver State?
What is the Immigration and Naturalization Service?
What Is the Know-Nothing Party?
What Should I Know about the Mammy Archetype?
Does NYC Care When Subway Delays Make Commuters Late for Work?
What is the Marines Delayed Entry Program?
What are the Key Events in Apache Indian History?
What is a State Flag?
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
What Is the State Motto of Oklahoma?
What is the Federal Farm Loan Act?
Who are the Pima Indians?
What Is the State Flower of New Hampshire?
What Is the History of Georgia's State Flag?
What Is the Anti-Slavery Society?
What is the Yurok Tribe?
What is the Individual Ready Reserve?
Why Is West Virginia Called the Mountain State?
Who are Fox Indians?
What is a Concurrent Resolution?
What is the Dakota Tribe?
Why is the Elephant a Symbol of the Republican Party?
What is Generation Jones?
Do I Have to Respond to the ACS?
What Is the State Animal of Washington?
What is the Greatest Generation?
What is the Bill of Rights?
What Is the Annual Death Rate in the US?
What are the Requirements for Running for Congress?
What is the Army Corps of Engineers?
What Is Reconstruction?
What Are the Legal Requirements for Marriage in the United States?
What Are the Duties of Congress?
Who is the Commander-In-Chief of the US Military?
What is the Wild West?
How Many United States Presidents Were Governors First?
What is Ellis Island?
What is a Hanging Chad?
Why Is Idaho Called the Gem State?
What is Representative Democracy?
What is a Naturalized Citizen?
What is a Signing Statement?
What Is the 13th Amendment?
What are the Different Navy SEALs Weapons?
What Is the State Motto of New York?
What Is Onion Snow?
What Is the Age of Jackson?
How Many Zip Codes are in the United States?
How Much do Americans Spend on Eating out?
What Is the State Nickname of New York?
Why is Pennsylvania Called the Keystone State?
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
How Many People in the US Live Below the Poverty Level?
What Types of Jobs do Americans Have?
What Is the State Animal of Texas?
What is the Lakota Tribe?
What is the EPA?
What is the Job of the United States Vice President?
What are the Duties of the Secret Service?
In the United States, How do I get an Initiative on the Ballot?
In California, what is Prop 13?
What Was the Hollywood Blacklist?
What is Operation Just Cause?
What Is the State Bird of New Jersey?
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
What is the HITECH ACT?
Why is Missouri Called the Show-Me State?
What Are the Civil War Amendments?
What is the US Secretary of Education?
What are the Marine Corps Special Forces?
What Is the Privacy Amendment?
What Is the National Bird of the USA?
Where are the High Radon Areas in the US?
What Is the State Flower of Maine?
Who are the Ohlone Indians?
What is a National Park?
Why is New York Called the Big Apple?
Why Is Florida Called the Sunshine State?
What Is the Relationship between the US Media and Politicians?
Why Is Rhode Island Called the Ocean State?
How does Outsourcing Affect the U.S. Economy?
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
What Is the US Postal Service Motto?
Who are the Mohican Indians?
Why is Connecticut Called the Constitution State?
What is the Virginia Plan?
What are Enumerated Powers?
What Is the Separation of Powers?
What is Sing Sing Correctional Facility?
What Was the American Civil War?
What Is the State Animal of Virginia?
What is a Krewe?
What Is a State Insect?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What Percent of Americans Have Bachelor's Degrees?
Why Is Oklahoma Called the Sooner State?
What Is the State Motto of Arizona?
In Politics, what is Public Opinion?
What is the National Prohibition Act?
What Is the Significance of a Yellow Ribbon?
In the United States, How is the Poverty Line Determined?
What is the Mohican Tribe?
What Does the U.S. Department of State Do?
What are Sioux Indians?
What Is the State Nickname of Florida?
Who are the Arapaho Indians?
What Are Progressive Democrats?
What Is the State Animal of Alaska?
What is Broadway?
What is the Doctrine of Incorporation?
Should the United States Stop Using Pennies?
What are State Symbols?
Who are the Osage Indians?
What Happened in the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
What Happened at the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
How Many Left-Handed Presidents Has the US Had?
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
Who are the Erie Indians?
What is the American Communist Party?
What is the American Independent Party?
Who are the Ojibwa Indians?
Who are the Winnebago Indians?
Why is Tennessee Known As the Volunteer State?
What Is the State Tree of California?
What are the Different Kinds of Native American Rituals?
What is the Reagan Doctrine?
What Is the 26th Amendment?
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
Why Is Seattle Called the "Emerald City"?
What is a Conservative Democrat?
Why Is St. Louis Called the "Gateway to the West"?
How Did the Dawes Act Affect Native Americans?
What Were the Major War of 1812 Battles?
What Is the Employee Retirement Income Security Act?
Why Aren't All the Presidential Primaries in the US on the Same Day?
What Is the State Motto of Louisiana?
What is the Farm Security Administration?
What is the Chippewa Tribe?
What Is the Grand Canyon?
What Is Yellowstone National Park?
Why Is North Dakota Called the Peace Garden State?
Why Is Hawaii Called the Aloha State?
What is the United States Department of Labor Responsible for?
What Caused the Levees to Break in New Orleans During Hurricane Katrina?
Who are the Potawatomi Indians?
What is the United States Census?
Why Is Alabama Called the Yellowhammer State?
Who are the Paiute Indians?
Who are the Ottawa Indians?
What is the Shoshone Tribe?
Why Is Detroit Called the "Motor City"?
What Is the State Tree of North Carolina?
Why Is New York Called the Empire State?
What Was the Flapper Era?
What Is a State Capital?
What Are the Largest Lakes in the US?
What is the Revolutionary Era?
What are the Key Events in Cherokee History?
What is the Brown Act?
Why Is Kansas Called the Sunflower State?
What Does the Department of Homeland Security Do?
What is the United States Marine Corps?
Why Is Michigan Called the Great Lakes State?
What Was Special Field Order 15?
What Is the State Motto of Massachusetts?
What is the Apache Tribe?
What is a Hudson's Bay Point Blanket?
What is an Altered Birth Certificate?
How Many United States Presidents Were Senators First?
Why do Students Recite the Pledge of Allegiance?
What is the Powhatan Tribe?
What Is the State Animal of Florida?
Why Is Maine Called the Pine Tree State?
What Is the Lautenberg Amendment?
Why Is Colorado Called the Centennial State?
Who are the Yakima Indians?
What Were the Pentagon Papers?
What are Alabama Indians?
What is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
What is the Homeowners Protection Act?
What Is the State Motto of Illinois?
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
What is the Populist Party?
What is the Sioux Tribe?
Who are the Serrano Indians?
What is a Commuter Town?
How Many People in US Jails and Prisons are Non-Violent Offenders?
What is the Great Migration?
What is a Formula Grant?
What is the Role of Partisan Politics in the U.S.?
Why Is Alaska Called the Last Frontier?
What Is the State Flower of Massachusetts?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What Is the State Animal of California?
What is the Term for Supreme Court Justices?
What is the Peace and Freedom Party?
Why Is Vermont Called the Green Mountain State?
What Is the 14th Amendment?
Why Is Maryland Called the Old Line State?
How Many Prisoners Are There in the US?
What Is the State Motto of Nevada?
What is the Crow Tribe?
What is the Freedom of Assembly?
What is the Mall of America?
Who are the Apache Indians?
Who are the Shasta Indians?
What is the Crow Nation?
What is the National Youth Administration?
What are Tribal Politics?
Why Is New Mexico Called the Land of Enchantment?
What are Some Major American Landmarks?
What is the Socialist Party?
What are Slavery Reparations?
What is the Historical Importance of Appomattox?
Who are the Yuma Indians?
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Who are the Southern Democrats?
Who are the Mohawk People?
What Is the State Motto of Michigan?
What is the US Customs and Border Protection?
What Is the State Animal of Indiana?
Who are the Hupa Indians?
What Is the National Mall?
Who are the Pomo Indians?
What Are the Key Events of Navajo History?
What Were the First Postage Stamps Used in the United States?
What Is the Reconstruction Act?
Who are the Cherokee Indians?
Who are the Chippewa Indians?
How do Representatives Help Constituents?
What is the Constitution Party?
What is the Bush Doctrine?
What is Political Culture?
What Was the Apollo Program?
Why Is South Carolina Called the Palmetto State?
Who are the Shawnee Indians?
What is the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
What is a Five and Dime?
Who are the Missouri Indians?
What is the Hatch Act?
What is the Mojave Tribe?
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
What Is the State Song of Illinois?
What Was the Contract with America?
What is the Domino Theory?
What is a Planned Community?
What Is the State Motto of Mississippi?
What Is the State Tree of Virginia?
What Was Bank Night?
What Is the State Tree of South Carolina?
What is ROTC?
What is the Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution?
What is the Speaker of the House?
What is Army Airborne School?
Why Is Nebraska Called the Cornhusker State?
What Is the State Motto of Tennessee?
Who are the Lenape Indians?
What Is the State Song of Pennsylvania?
What are the Everglades?
What Is the History of the State Flag of Alabama?
How do I Know if I Have an FBI File?
What Is the War of Northern Aggression?
What is Mount McKinley?
What are the Duties of a CASA Volunteer?
Who are the Sioux People?
Who are the Assiniboine Indians?
Who are the Green Berets?
Why Is Wyoming Called the Cowboy State?
What is the Federal Bureau of Prisons?
What Is the State Tree of Hawaii?
What Is the Most Common Birthday in the United States?
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