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The United States (2099 Articles)
What is a Naturalized Citizen?
What is IOKIYAR?
What is the Federalist Party?
Why Is Massachusetts Called the Bay State?
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 Omaha Tribe?
What Factors Led to the End of Reconstruction?
What are Slave Codes?
Who are the Mohegan Indians?
What are the Requirements for Running for Congress?
How Big are the States in America?
What Is the State Tree of Wyoming?
What Is the 14th Amendment?
In the United States, what are the Three Branches of Government?
What is the Poverty Level in the United States?
What is Sing Sing Correctional Facility?
Can I Really Fight a Traffic Ticket?
What is the Bradley Effect?
What is the Equal Pay Act of 1963?
What Is the Dawes Act?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What is the Opposition Party?
What is the Patriot Party?
Why is Connecticut Called the Constitution State?
What is a Bushwacker?
What is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)?
Does the US President Have the Right to Pardon Himself?
Why is the Elephant a Symbol of the Republican Party?
What is the Central Intelligence Agency?
In US Politics, what is a Purple State?
What is a Ranking Member?
Why Is Iowa Called the Hawkeye State?
What is the Senate Judiciary Committee?
What is the Historical Importance of Appomattox?
What Is the State Motto of Massachusetts?
Do I Have to Respond to the ACS?
What Was the Asian Exclusion Act?
Who are the Mohican Indians?
What is the Constitution Party?
What is the Crow Tribe?
Why is Utah Called the Beehive State?
How Many United States Presidents Were Senators First?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What Are the Key Events of Navajo History?
What is the Painted Desert?
What is the 'Hood?
What is the War on Drugs?
Why is New York Called the Big Apple?
What is Generation Jones?
What Happened on September 11, 2001?
What is the Wild West?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
What is the Homeowners Protection Act?
What is the Mohican Tribe?
What are Sioux Indians?
Who are the Catawba Indians?
What is a Conservative Democrat?
Should the United States Stop Using Pennies?
Why is Denver Called the Mile High City?
What Is Angels Attic?
What Types of Jobs do Americans Have?
What is the Mainstream Media?
What is the Federal Poverty Level?
What Does the Department of Homeland Security Do?
What are the Different Homeland Security Agencies?
What are the Different Kinds of Native American Rituals?
How Much do Americans Spend on Eating out?
What Is Yankee White?
What Is a State Motto?
Who are the Osage Indians?
What is the Continental Army?
What is the Harrison Act?
What is the Kiowa Tribe?
Why Is California Called the Golden State?
What is the Miwok Tribe?
In the United States, How is the Poverty Line Determined?
What Is the State Tree of California?
What is the Sioux Tribe?
Why Is Nebraska Called the Cornhusker State?
What is Dual Federalism?
What is Broadway?
What is the First New Deal?
What is Virtual Representation?
What Is the State Animal of California?
Did the Pony Express Use Ponies or Horses?
What is the Process for US Citizenship?
What is the Wampanoag Tribe?
Why Is Las Vegas Called "Sin City"?
What is Death Valley?
What is the Progressive Party?
What Was the Chappaquiddick Incident?
What is the ACLU?
Why is Tennessee Known As the Volunteer State?
What is the Shoshone Tribe?
What is a National Park?
What is the Second Great Awakening?
What Is the State Animal of Minnesota?
What Is Reconstruction?
What Is a State Seal?
What Was the Tuskegee Experiment?
What is the Lakota Tribe?
What is the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution?
Why is Delaware Known As the First State?
What Caused the Levees to Break in New Orleans During Hurricane Katrina?
Why Is Minnesota Called the North Star State?
Who are the Serrano Indians?
How Many US Presidents Were First-Born Sons?
Why Is Idaho Called the Gem State?
What is the Crow Nation?
What are the Oldest American Cities?
What is Certified Mail&Trade;?
What is the EPA?
What Is the State Nickname of Texas?
Who are the Potawatomi Indians?
What is Pearl Harbor?
What is the Reagan Doctrine?
What is a Greenback?
Who are the Iroquois Native Americans?
What Is the State Song of Louisiana?
Why Is Oklahoma Called the Sooner State?
What is the Number of Justices on the Supreme Court?
What is a Simple Resolution?
What Was the Tailhook Scandal?
What is the Hupa Tribe?
What Is the State Song of New York?
What Was the American Civil War?
Who are the Arapaho Indians?
What Is the State Motto of Pennsylvania?
Why Is Nashville Called "Music City"?
What is Political Culture?
Why Is St. Louis Called the "Gateway to the West"?
What Is the State Tree of Hawaii?
What Are the Legal Requirements for Marriage in the United States?
What is the President Pro Tempore of the Senate?
What Was the Population of the U.S. Throughout Its History?
What Is the State Motto of Oklahoma?
What is Neo-Conservatism?
What Is the Age of Jackson?
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What is the Yurok Tribe?
What Is the Great Salt Lake?
What is the Philadelphia Convention?
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Who are the Shasta Indians?
What are the Key Events in Apache Indian History?
What is De-Policing?
What is the Federal Bureau of Prisons?
What is the Continental Congress?
What Was the Oregon Trail?
Can I Visit the Supreme Court While It is in Session?
Who is the Postmaster General?
What is the Empire State Building?
What are Enumerated Powers?
What is Jefferson Island?
Who are the Ottawa Indians?
What is a SWAT Team?
Why Is Wyoming Called the Cowboy State?
What Was the Glass-Steagall Act?
What is the HITECH ACT?
Why Is Louisiana Called the Pelican State?
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
What Is the State Motto of South Carolina?
In the United States, what is a Park Ranger?
What are Alabama Indians?
What Is a State Nickname?
What is the Populist Party?
What is Rikers Island Prison?
What is Ghost Voting?
Why Is Montana Called the Treasure State?
What is a Planned Community?
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?
What are Crow Native Americans?
What Is a State Song?
What Is the State Tree of Pennsylvania?
How Much does US Tap Water Cost?
What Is a State Capital?
What is the U.S. Budget and Where does the Money Go?
Why is New Jersey Called the Garden State?
What Should I Know about the Mammy Archetype?
What is the Arapaho Tribe?
What Is the State Motto of Maine?
What Is the History of the State Seal of Maine?
What Is the State Song of New Jersey?
What does the US Air Force do?
What is Ellis Island?
What are the Requirements for Navy Reserve Retirement?
What does the Fourth of July Celebrate?
What are the Most Popular Names for a Baby in the United States?
What Is the State Flower of Georgia?
What Is the State Motto of Arizona?
When are Flags Put at Half Mast?
What Was the Boston Massacre?
Why Is South Dakota Called the Mount Rushmore State?
What is the Mojave Tribe?
What is the Blackfeet Nation?
What is Stateville Correctional Center?
What Is the Relationship between the US Media and Politicians?
What are Natural Rights?
What is the US Customs and Border Protection?
What is RICO?
Who Was the First US President to be Born in a Hospital?
In US Politics, what is a Nomination by Acclamation?
What Is the State Motto of Texas?
What are the US Time Zones?
What Is the State Motto of Washington?
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
Who are the Southern Democrats?
What is a Krewe?
What is the Continental Divide?
Which Country First Recognized US Independence?
What Is the National Mall?
What Are the Rocky Mountains?
What Was Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President?
What Is the State Motto of New York?
What is the Whig Party?
What is the Pomo Tribe?
What is Army Airborne School?
What Is the History of the State Seal of Massachusetts?
How Has Voter Turnout in US Presidential Elections Changed over Time?
What Is the State Nickname of New York?
What is the Quapaw Tribe?
Why Is South Carolina Called the Palmetto State?
What is the Lone Gunman Theory?
What Are the Duties of Congress?
What Is the State Bird of West Virginia?
What is the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution?
What is a Congressional Caucus?
Do Gun Owners Usually Store Their Firearms Safely?
What Is the State Song of Mississippi?
What are Mugwumps?
What is the Marines Delayed Entry Program?
What is the Army Corps of Engineers?
What is the Innocence Project?
How Many Islands are in the San Francisco Bay?
What Are the Civil War Amendments?
What is the Mojave Phone Booth?
What is Soft Money?
Who are the Delaware Indians?
Who are the Makah Indians?
What Is the War of Northern Aggression?
Do State Governors Deal with Congress in Any Way?
What is a Milker Bill?
What is the Minuteman Project?
What is the Presidential Protective Division?
Why Is North Carolina Called the Tar Heel State?
Why Is New York Called the Empire State?
What is a Drowning Machine?
What is the California Republic?
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 Representative Democracy?
What is the Difference Between a US Senator and a US Representative?
What is a Platinum Triangle?
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
What is a Majority Whip?
What is La Migra?
What is a Filibuster?
What is the Age Discrimination in Employment Act?
What Is Colonial Slavery?
In Politics, what is Public Opinion?
What Is the State Motto of Oregon?
What is the Cheddar Curtain?
What are Slavery Reparations?
What is the Advanced Research Projects Agency?
What Is the 12th Amendment?
What Are the Characteristics of Native American Culture?
What is a Spoil System?
What is the Third Amendment of the US Constitution?
What Is a Q Clearance?
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
What does the Term "Anchor Baby" Mean?
What is the Seventh Amendment to the US Constitution?
In Politics, what is Swiftboating?
What is the Defense of Marriage Act?
Why Is Seattle Called the "Emerald City"?
Does Voting Actually Matter?
Why do Students Recite the Pledge of Allegiance?
What Is Yellowstone Lake?
What Is the State Animal of Washington?
Who is the Commander-In-Chief of the US Military?
What is the Greatest Generation?
What is the Bill of Rights?
What Is the National Flower of the USA?
What is Andersonville Prison?
What is a Signing Statement?
What is the Southern Strategy?
What is the Morrill Act?
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Why Is Florida Called the Sunshine State?
What Is the State Animal of Alaska?
Why Is Pittsburgh Called the "Steel City"?
Why is Missouri Called the Show-Me State?
Why Is Boston Called the "Cradle of Liberty"?
How Many Zip Codes are in the United States?
What is Graft?
What is a Blue Light Special?
What does It Mean to be a US Citizen?
What are Tribal Politics?
Who are the Erie Indians?
Who Are the Dakota Sioux?
What Is the Significance of a Yellow Ribbon?
Why Is Michigan Called the Great Lakes State?
What is a Bedroom Community?
In California, what is Prop 13?
What Does "Remember the Maine" Mean?
Who are the Walla Walla Indians?
What Is a State Insect?
What Was the Whitewater Scandal?
Why Is Maine Called the Pine Tree State?
What is the Revolutionary Era?
How Many United States Presidents Were Governors First?
What are Some Criticisms of No Child Left Behind?
What is Jamestown?
What are the Duties of the Secret Service?
What are Some Criticisms of the Electoral College?
What is a Hanging Chad?
Why is Pennsylvania Called the Keystone State?
What is a Special Election?
What is a Formula Grant?
Why Is Illinois Called the Prairie State?
Under the Controlled Substances Act, what are the Five Classes of Controlled Substances?
What are the Different Navy SEALs Weapons?
Who Were the Pilgrims?
What is Air Force Boot Camp?
Who are the Pawnee Indians?
Why Is Washington Called the Evergreen State?
What Is the State Animal of Virginia?
What are the Causes of Poverty in Appalachia?
What is the Wichita Tribe?
What is the Doctrine of Incorporation?
What is Unique About the Appalachian Region?
How Many Left-Handed Presidents Has the US Had?
What Are the Largest Lakes in the US?
Who are the Cheyenne Indians?
What Is the State Animal of Texas?
What are Some Major American Landmarks?
What is the American Independent Party?
What Is Onion Snow?
What Does "Sensitive but Unclassified" Mean?
What Factors Lead to the Failure of Reconstruction?
What is the Balance of Power?
Who are the Crow Indians?
What are the Characteristics of Apache Clothing?
Who are the Apache Indians?
What Is the State Tree of North Carolina?
Why Is Rhode Island Called the Ocean State?
What Was the Flapper Era?
Why Is Oregon Called the Beaver State?
What is the Dakota Tribe?
What Is the Privacy Amendment?
Who are the Ojibwa Indians?
Where are the High Radon Areas in the US?
What is the Homeland Security Act?
What Was the Rampart Scandal?
What is a Commuter Town?
What Was the Hollywood Blacklist?
Who are the Mohawk Indians?
Why Is Wisconsin Called the Badger State?
What Is the State Motto of North Carolina?
How do I Know if I Have an FBI File?
Why Is Hawaii Called the Aloha State?
What is the Job of the United States Vice President?
Why Was Alabama Called the Cotton State?
What is a Standing Committee?
What Is the Huron Tribe?
What Is the State Animal of Hawaii?
Why Is Alaska Called the Last Frontier?
What is a Divided Government?
Why Is Kentucky Called the Bluegrass State?
What Is the Grand Canyon?
What Is the National Bird of the USA?
How Popular Is Self Storage in the United States?
What Is the Anti-Slavery Movement?
What are Hopi Native Americans?
What is the Liberty Bell?
What is the Chinook Tribe?
What is the Zuni Tribe?
What is Operation Just Cause?
Who are Fox Indians?
How Many US Presidents Had Brown Eyes?
Why Is Nevada Called the Silver State?
What Was the Result of the Spanish-American War?
What is the Committee on Public Information?
What Is the US Postal Service Motto?
What Is the 24th Amendment?
Why Is Kansas Called the Sunflower State?
What is Mad-Dogging?
Who are the Luiseno Indians?
What Is the State Nickname of Florida?
Who are the Yuma Indians?
What Was the Contract with America?
What Was Tammany Hall?
What is the Non-Intercourse Act?
What Is the Equal Rights Amendment?
What are State Symbols?
How did the Southern US get to be Called Dixie?
Why Is New Mexico Called the Land of Enchantment?
What is the US Secretary of Education?
What Is the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science?
Why Is North Dakota Called the Peace Garden State?
What is the Virginia Plan?
How Many US States Have One Syllable?
What is the Wagner Act?
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
What Are Progressive Democrats?
What Is the State Tree of Ohio?
Why Is Ohio Called the Buckeye State?
Who are the Hupa Indians?
What Is the Most Common Birthday in the United States?
Who are the Lakota Indians?
What is the Peace and Freedom Party?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
What is Americana?
What are the Lakota Sioux?
Who are the Sioux People?
What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
What is the Individual Ready Reserve?
Who are the Green Berets?
What is a Swing State?
What Was the Cause of the War of 1812?
Can You Spell the Word Criminal from Any Presidential Names?
What is an Air Force Squadron?
What Is the State Animal of Indiana?
What is the Senate Candy Desk?
What Is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act?
Who are the Powhatan Indians?
What Is the State Motto of Virginia?
What is the Labor-Management Relations Act?
Do Most Homeless People in Los Angeles Have Access to Shelters?
What Is the Separation of Powers?
What Is the State Motto of Illinois?
What Is the State Motto of Nevada?
Who are the Ohlone Indians?
What Percentage of Americans are Overweight?
Why Is West Virginia Called the Mountain State?
What is a Cow County?
What Is the Lautenberg Amendment?
What Is the 27th Amendment?
What Is the State Flower of North Carolina?
What is High Society?
What is an Omnibus Bill?
Who are the Kickapoo Indians?
What Is the Sagebrush Rebellion?
What are Navy SEALs?
What are Hobo Signs?
What is the GOP?
What is an Army MOS?
What Is the New Left?
Who are Crow People?
What is a Five and Dime?
Who are the Pomo Indians?
What is Code Pink?
Why Was Cincinnati Once Known As Porkopolis?
What is the People's Party?
What is the Energy and Commerce Committee?
What Is the State Motto of Mississippi?
What Is the State Tree of Virginia?
Why Is Virginia Called Old Dominion?
What Are the Most Common Currency Bills in the US?
What Started Slavery in America?
Why can't Pollsters Call Cell Phones?
Who are the Huron Indians?
How Many Hours Does the Average US Person Work per Year?
Which States did Not Originally Ratify the 13th Amendment?
What Is the State Motto of Missouri?
Why Is Alabama Called the Yellowhammer State?
Who are the Blackfeet Indians?
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
What is the Oval Office?
What Is the State Song of Pennsylvania?
What is the Greenback Party?
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
Why Is Colorado Called the Centennial State?
What is the Average Vehicle Occupancy in the US?
What Is the 23rd Amendment?
What does the United States Department of the Interior do?
What is a Senatorial Courtesy?
Who are the Cayuga Indians?
What City's Name Was Determined by a Coin Flip?
What Is the 22nd Amendment?
Who are the Mohawk People?
What Was the Golden Spike?
What are the Key Events of Sioux History?
Why are US Elections Always Held on Tuesdays?
What Is the State Flower of Idaho?
What is the Funeral Rule?
Why Is Vermont Called the Green Mountain State?
What is Navy Officer Training?
What is the Comanche Nation?
Can a US Attorney Practice in Any US State?
What is the Library of Congress?
What is the American Federation of Labor?
What Was the Auburn System?
Why Is Illinois Called the "Land of Lincoln"?
What is a Chippewa Native American?
What Was the Million Man March?
What is a Jayhawker?
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