#1. Name This President: I was from Ohio and a member of the Republican party who served as President for six months in 1881. I was an ordained minister who fought in the Civil War, rose to the rank of Major General, and became president. On July 2, 1881, Charles Guiteau, a disgruntled attorney who was refused a political appointment shot me and I died 2 months later from an infection. The only person to served less time in the White House than I was the 9 th President who died 31 days after taking office. The assassin – Guiteau was convicted and hanged in 1882.
#2. How many states must vote to adopt a proposed constitutional amendment for the amendment to be ratified and become part of the Constitution?
It requires 3/4 of the states to approve the proposed amendment before it is
ratified and becomes a part of the Constitution.
#3. Which is not a right protected by the Bill of Rights?
#4. Which amendment in the Bill of Rights is commonly referred to as the “States Rights amendment’?
#5. Congress must convene a “States Convention” to amend the Constitution when how many states call for one?
#6. Can a President pardon himself?
#7. What was the governing document of the United States before the Constitution?
#8. Who said, “Give me liberty, or give me death”?
Patric Henery made this statement in a 1775 speech to the Virginia legislature.
Thomas Paine wrote “Common Sense.”
George Washington is known for a number of notable quotes, but not this one.
If you picked Thomas Gage, well he was the Commanding General of British
Forces during the American Revolution until he was replaced by General
Howe, so no.
#9. On April 9, 1865 after four years of Civil War General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. In what town did the surrender take place?
#10. How many Presidents served on active duty in WW II?
Dwight D. Eisenhower (Army); John F. Kennedy (Navy); Lyndon B. Johnson
(Navy); Richard Nixon (Navy); Gerald R. Ford (Navy); Ronald Reagan
(Army); George H.W. Bush (Navy)