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The United States (2111 Articles)
What are the Requirements to Run for President in the United States?
How Big are the States in America?
Do All Traffic Lights in the United States Look the Same?
What Is the State Animal of Minnesota?
Do I Have to Respond to the ACS?
What Are the Most Common Currency Bills in the US?
What is the Bill of Rights?
How Many US Presidents Were First-Born Sons?
Why Is Seattle Called the "Emerald City"?
What are the Requirements for Running for Congress?
What Is the State Animal of Florida?
What Is the Highest Point in Pennsylvania?
What is the Process for US Citizenship?
What is the Greatest Generation?
How Many United States Presidents Were Governors First?
Where are the High Radon Areas in the US?
What Is Georgia's State Animal?
Who Designed the 50-Star American Flag?
Are There Many Places in the United States without a Nearby McDonald's?
What Is a State Insect?
How Has the Average Size of American Homes Changed over Time?
How Many People Die from Tornadoes in the US?
How Much does US Tap Water Cost?
How Many Left-Handed Presidents Has the US Had?
Who Was the First US President to be Born in a Hospital?
How Many Plastic Bags Do Americans Use Each Year?
What is the Average Vehicle Occupancy in the US?
What Does "Hooah!" Stand for?
What is a Majority Whip?
How Many US States Have One Syllable?
In California, what is Prop 13?
What Is the State Animal of Virginia?
Can You Spell the Word Criminal from Any Presidential Names?
What is the First New Deal?
How Much Waste in the US does Coal-Produced Electricity Generate?
What is the Southern Strategy?
Under the Controlled Substances Act, what are the Five Classes of Controlled Substances?
Do Most Americans Have a Retirement Plan?
What is the Painted Desert?
What Is the History of California's State Flag?
In the United States, How is the Poverty Line Determined?
What are Slave Codes?
What Is the Average Age of a First Time Mother in the US?
What Does "Remember the Maine" Mean?
What Is the State Animal of Alaska?
What is Representative Democracy?
What Was the Whitewater Scandal?
What Are the Duties of Congress?
How Do Most Americans Find out about News and Current Events?
What Is the National Bird of the USA?
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What is the March of Dimes?
What Is the National Flower of the USA?
What is the Women's Armed Services Integration Act?
Who Assigns US Secret Service Codenames?
What Is the Equal Rights Amendment?
What Is the State Song of Tennessee?
What is the President Pro Tempore of the Senate?
What Are the Civil War Amendments?
What is the Mainstream Media?
What Is the State Stone of Ohio?
What Percent of the US Population do Teachers Comprise?
Why Is Hawaii Called the Aloha State?
What is the Senate Judiciary Committee?
What are the Different Homeland Security Agencies?
What is the Mohican Tribe?
What is the 'Hood?
What are Some Criticisms of the Electoral College?
What is the Wagner Act?
What are the Causes of Poverty in Appalachia?
Why Is Florida Called the Sunshine State?
What Was the Auburn System?
What Is the State Tree of North Carolina?
Should the United States Stop Using Pennies?
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
What is the Clean Air Act?
Why Is Oregon Called the Beaver State?
What Happened on September 11, 2001?
In Politics, what is Public Opinion?
What is the Wild West?
What Is the State Motto of Texas?
What is Americana?
What is Air Force Boot Camp?
What Caused the Levees to Break in New Orleans During Hurricane Katrina?
What is a Bedroom Community?
What Is the State Nickname of New York?
What is the Marines Delayed Entry Program?
What is the Federal Bureau of Prisons?
What Is the State Tree of Pennsylvania?
What is a Five and Dime?
What is a Ranking Member?
What Is the State Motto of South Carolina?
What is the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution?
What Is the History of the State Seal of California?
What is the Chippewa Tribe?
What is the Speaker of the House?
What Is the State Motto of Virginia?
Why Is California Called the Golden State?
What is Jamestown?
What is the Yurok Tribe?
What Is the State Motto of Massachusetts?
What Are Progressive Democrats?
What Is the State Motto of Pennsylvania?
What Is the State Motto of Tennessee?
What Is the 22nd Amendment?
What Is the State Tree of Kentucky?
Why Is St. Louis Called the "Gateway to the West"?
How did the Southern US get to be Called Dixie?
What are Tribal Politics?
What Was the Tuskegee Experiment?
Why Is New Mexico Called the Land of Enchantment?
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
What Is the State Song of Virginia?
What is the Number of Justices on the Supreme Court?
What Is the State Flower of Ohio?
What Is the 14th Amendment?
Who Were the Pilgrims?
What Is the Separation of Powers?
What is Graft?
What Is the 26th Amendment?
What Is the State Motto of Mississippi?
What is a Krewe?
What Is Colonial Slavery?
What Is the Dawes Act?
Why Is South Carolina Called the Palmetto State?
What is an Army Drill Sergeant?
Why Is Illinois Called the Prairie State?
What is the Railway Labor Act?
What Was Bleeding Kansas?
What are United States National Cemeteries?
What are Some Criticisms of No Child Left Behind?
Who are the Makah Indians?
What is Mad-Dogging?
What Is the State Motto of New Jersey?
What Is the State Motto of Illinois?
Who are the Potawatomi Indians?
What Was the American Civil War?
What is Ellis Island?
What is the Shoshone Tribe?
What is the Truman Doctrine?
What is the Non-Intercourse Act?
What is a Conservative Democrat?
What Is the State Tree of Virginia?
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
What is the Continental Army?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
What Is a State Seal?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What Is the State Flower of Georgia?
What Is the State Song of Hawaii?
What Is the State Motto of Oregon?
What Factors Led to the End of Reconstruction?
What Is the State Flower of Maine?
In the United States, How do I get an Initiative on the Ballot?
What Is Tennessee's State Flower?
What is Rikers Island Prison?
Who are the Arapaho Indians?
What is a SWAT Team?
What is a Planned Community?
What is a Hudson's Bay Point Blanket?
Why Is North Carolina Called the Tar Heel State?
What is Political Culture?
What is National Dark Sky Week?
What is the Continental Divide?
What Was Bank Night?
What is the Role of Partisan Politics in the U.S.?
What is the Continental Congress?
What is the Innocence Project?
Why Is Maine Called the Pine Tree State?
What Is the State Animal of New York?
What Is the State Tree of Alabama?
Why Is Vermont Called the Green Mountain State?
What are Alabama Indians?
What is a Congressional Caucus?
What Is the State Motto of Washington?
Why Was Alabama Called the Cotton State?
Who are the Luiseno Indians?
Who are the Yuma Indians?
What Is the State Tree of Arkansas?
What is the Chinook Tribe?
What is a Filibuster?
What is a Pocket Veto?
What Is the Relationship between the US Media and Politicians?
What is the Doctrine of Incorporation?
What Is a State Song?
What is a Formula Grant?
What Was the Flapper Era?
What is a State Bird?
Who are the Pomo Indians?
Who are the Erie Indians?
What Was the Boston Massacre?
Why Is Kansas Called the Sunflower State?
What is Navy Officer Training?
Who are the Winnebago Indians?
Why Was Cincinnati Once Known As Porkopolis?
What is the Statue of Liberty?
What Was the Gadsden Purchase?
Who are the Green Berets?
Who are the Osage Indians?
What is Virtual Representation?
What Are the Legal Requirements for Marriage in the United States?
What is Certified Mail&Trade;?
Why Is Kentucky Called the Bluegrass State?
What Is the State Flower of Arkansas?
In the US, is It Illegal to get Married Before You'Re 18?
What is AIPAC?
What is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
What Is the State Flower of Pennsylvania?
What is the Bohemian Grove?
What is New Federalism?
What is the Homeland Security Act?
What does the US Air Force do?
What is the Historical Importance of Appomattox?
What is a Standing Committee?
What is Ghost Voting?
What is Shoefiti?
What Is a State Motto?
Who are the Mohawk People?
What are State Symbols?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What is the Greenback Party?
What Is a State Capital?
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
What is the Peace and Freedom Party?
What Is the State Motto of Alaska?
How did the Name "Beantown" Originate?
What Is the Sagebrush Rebellion?
What is the Assiniboine Tribe?
Why Is Washington Called the Evergreen State?
What is the Minuteman Project?
What US State is the Smartest?
What is the National Youth Administration?
In the US, what is the DMV?
What Is the State Bird of Colorado?
What Happened at the O.K. Corral?
What Is the State Animal of Hawaii?
What is a State Flag?
What Is the State Motto of Georgia?
What is the Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy?
What Is the 13th Amendment?
What is Angola Prison?
Who are the Powhatan Indians?
What Is the State Tree of Massachusetts?
What are Enumerated Powers?
What is the Comanche Tribe?
What Does the U.S. Department of State Do?
What is Dual Federalism?
Who are the Southern Democrats?
What is the Equal Pay Act of 1963?
What Is the State Animal of Washington?
Who are the Yakima Indians?
What is the Federal Poverty Level?
How does Outsourcing Affect the U.S. Economy?
What Percent of Americans Have Bachelor's Degrees?
Who is the Commander-In-Chief of the US Military?
How Much do Americans Spend on Eating out?
What is the Domino Theory?
Why is the Elephant a Symbol of the Republican Party?
What is Generation Jones?
How Many US Presidents Had Brown Eyes?
What is the Logan Act?
What Is the State Animal of Texas?
What is the Lakota Tribe?
Why is Connecticut Called the Constitution State?
What are Slavery Reparations?
Why Is Idaho Called the Gem State?
Why is Utah Called the Beehive State?
Which US State Is the Most Densely Populated?
Why is Denver Called the Mile High City?
What Is Reconstruction?
What Is a Q Clearance?
How Many People in the US Live Below the Poverty Level?
Which Country First Recognized US Independence?
What is the Term for Supreme Court Justices?
What Is the US Postal Service Motto?
Who are the Mohican Indians?
What Is the Privacy Amendment?
What is the Balance of Power?
What Is the Longest US War?
How Many Plastic Bags Are Recycled in the US?
What is a Hanging Chad?
What is a Naturalized Citizen?
How Convenient Is the New York City Subway for Residents of Manhattan?
What Is the Lautenberg Amendment?
What is the Revolutionary Era?
How Many Hours Does the Average US Person Work per Year?
What is the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution?
What is the Whig Party?
How Many Zip Codes are in the United States?
Which States did Not Originally Ratify the 13th Amendment?
Have Arcade Games Always Been Popular?
What Are the Characteristics of Native American Culture?
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
What is Operation Just Cause?
Does Voting Actually Matter?
Why is Missouri Called the Show-Me State?
How Do Prisoners in California Help Fight Wildfires?
What are the Different Navy SEALs Weapons?
Are There Any Penalties for Taking out the Trash Incorrectly?
What Is the State Tree of California?
Does Anyone Still Consider Pluto to Be a Planet?
What is a Blue Light Special?
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
What is the Second Great Awakening?
What Is the State Tree of Hawaii?
What is the Harrison Act?
What Was the Asian Exclusion Act?
In US Politics, what is a Purple State?
What Is the 17th Amendment?
What Is the State Song of Arizona?
What is the EPA?
What Is the State Nickname of Texas?
What Factors Lead to the Failure of Reconstruction?
What are the Duties of the Secret Service?
What Is the Anti-Slavery Movement?
What is Pearl Harbor?
What is the Reagan Doctrine?
What Is the Huron Tribe?
What Was the Hollywood Blacklist?
What is the Federalist Party?
Why is Pennsylvania Called the Keystone State?
Does the US President Have the Right to Pardon Himself?
What is the Difference Between a US Senator and a US Representative?
What is IOKIYAR?
What Happened at the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
What Is the State Song of Louisiana?
What Is the State Animal of California?
What Types of Jobs do Americans Have?
What is the Wampanoag Tribe?
What is the American Independent Party?
What Is the State Motto of New York?
What Is the Age of Jackson?
What is the Morrill Act?
What is the Second New Deal?
What Is the State Motto of Maryland?
Who are the Apache Indians?
What is an Army MOS?
What are CAFE Standards?
What Is the New Left?
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
What Is the State Motto of Arizona?
How do I Know if I Have an FBI File?
What Is the 24th Amendment?
Why Is Las Vegas Called "Sin City"?
What is the Women's Army Corps?
What Is Onion Snow?
What is the Hatch Act?
What Does the Department of Homeland Security Do?
What is a Milker Bill?
Who are the Serrano Indians?
Why Is Montana Called the Treasure State?
Why is New York Called the Big Apple?
Why Is Massachusetts Called the Bay State?
What is the Ways and Means Committee?
What does It Mean to be a US Citizen?
What is the Central Intelligence Agency?
Why Is Wisconsin Called the Badger State?
What Is the State Song of Pennsylvania?
Why Is Nevada Called the Silver State?
What Is the State Motto of North Carolina?
What Was the Result of the Spanish-American War?
What is the War Powers Act?
Why Is Oklahoma Called the Sooner State?
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Why Is Iowa Called the Hawkeye State?
What Does "Sensitive but Unclassified" Mean?
What is the Homeowners Protection Act?
What is La Migra?
What Is the State Nickname of Florida?
What Is Yankee White?
What is Broadway?
Why Is Wyoming Called the Cowboy State?
What Is the State Animal of Indiana?
What is the War on Terror?
Why Is Alaska Called the Last Frontier?
What is ROTC?
What Is the State Bird of Alabama?
What Was the Population of the U.S. Throughout Its History?
What are the Marine Corps Special Forces?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Who are the Ojibwa Indians?
What Was the Tailhook Scandal?
What is the Job of the United States Vice President?
Why Is Michigan Called the Great Lakes State?
What is the Poverty Level in the United States?
What are Sioux Indians?
What Is the Anti-Slavery Society?
What is a Duck and Cover Drill?
What is the Apache Tribe?
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?
What are the Key Events in Apache Indian History?
What is an Altered Birth Certificate?
Why Is Rhode Island Called the Ocean State?
What Is a Congressional Bill?
What Is the State Bird of Arkansas?
What Factors Brought about the Abolishment of Slavery?
Why Is Virginia Called Old Dominion?
What Is the State Rock of Texas?
What Is the State Motto of Florida?
What Is the 23rd Amendment?
What Was the Chappaquiddick Incident?
What does the United States Department of Education do?
What is Mount McKinley?
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
Who are the Ohlone Indians?
What is a Commuter Town?
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
What is a National Park?
Who are the Mohawk Indians?
Why Is Nashville Called "Music City"?
Who are the Shasta Indians?
What Is the State Bird of New Jersey?
What is the Army Corps of Engineers?
What Is the State Motto of Michigan?
What is Unique About the Appalachian Region?
What is the Progressive Movement?
What is a Concurrent Resolution?
What Was the Golden Spike?
What is a Divided Government?
What is the Committee on Public Information?
What is the American Communist Party?
Why Is Boston Called the "Cradle of Liberty"?
What Should I Know about the Mammy Archetype?
What are the Lakota Sioux?
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
What is the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act?
What is the Crow Tribe?
What Was Special Field Order 15?
What Was the Contract with America?
Why Is Detroit Called the "Motor City"?
What is the Presidential Protective Division?
Why Is Illinois Called the "Land of Lincoln"?
Why Is New York Called the Empire State?
Who are Fox Indians?
What is the Third Amendment of the US Constitution?
What Is the State Bird of Illinois?
What is the Senate Candy Desk?
What is the US Secretary of Education?
Why are US Elections Always Held on Tuesdays?
What Is the State Bird of Indiana?
What Is a State Nickname?
Do All U.S. States Have Sales Tax?
What Is the War of Northern Aggression?
What is the Hupa Tribe?
Why is Tennessee Known As the Volunteer State?
What Is the History of the State Seal of Massachusetts?
What are Native American Symbols?
What Is the State Flower of Indiana?
Why Is Pittsburgh Called the "Steel City"?
Why Is Louisiana Called the Pelican State?
What Was the Battle of Seattle?
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
Why Is Colorado Called the Centennial State?
When are Flags Put at Half Mast?
What is a State Flower?
What is the Progressive Party?
Why is Delaware Known As the First State?
In the United States, what are the Three Branches of Government?
What Is the Significance of a Yellow Ribbon?
What is Sing Sing Correctional Facility?
What Is the State Motto of Nevada?
Why Is Alabama Called the Yellowhammer State?
What Was the Rampart Scandal?
Why Is Nebraska Called the Cornhusker State?
What is the Anaconda Plan?
What Is the Whiskey Rebellion?
What is a Special Election?
How Many United States Presidents Were Senators First?
What is the US Customs and Border Protection?
What Is the State Flower of Massachusetts?
What is the Enola Gay?
What is a State Tree?
What Is the State Bird of Utah?
What Is the State Flower of North Carolina?
What Is the Grand Canyon?
What Is the State Motto of Maine?
What Is the State Song of New York?
Why Is Minnesota Called the North Star State?
Who are the Sioux People?
What are Hobo Signs?
What is a Jayhawker?
What is the Pentagon?
What is the Highway Patrol?
What is the Attica Correctional Facility?
What Was the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947?
What Is the State Tree of Arizona?
What is the HITECH ACT?
How Did the Dawes Act Affect Native Americans?
What Is the State Tree of South Carolina?
What is American Exceptionalism?
What is the Socialist Party?
What Is the State Fish of Hawaii?
What is Code Pink?
What is the United States Department of Labor Responsible for?
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act?
What is the Sioux Tribe?
What is a Swing State?
What is an Executive Agreement?
What is the American Party System?
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