Clear Answers for Common Questions

The United States

The history, places and economy of America.

What is ICE? What is WIC? What is ROTC? What is HUAC? What is Shoefiti? What is Area 51? What is MARAD? What is a Hogan? What is the DAR? What is the USO? What is the GOP? What is IOKIYAR? What is the 'Hood? What is Manzanar? What is Job Corps? What is the GED®? What is Tinseltown? What is Starbury™? What is a Cowpoke? What are Exit Polls? What is First Strike? What is an Analogy? What is Soft Money? What is Astroturfing? What is a Log Cabin? What is Roe v Wade? What is White Flight? What is Angel Island? What is Friendly Fire? What is High Society? What is Patriots' Day? What was Phonegate? What is the CAHSEE? What is the Rust Belt? Who was Deep Throat? What are Navy SEALs? What is Sweetest Day? What is the Logan Act? What is the Rebel Yell? What is a Transfer Tax? What is a Purple Heart? What is the Oval Office? What is Diamond Head? What are Food Stamps? Where is Hell's Kitchen? What is Super Tuesday? What is the Liberty Bell? What is an Independent? What is a National Park? What is a Citizen Militia? What is a "US Attorney"? Who are the Muckrakers? What is the Bill of Rights? What is Judicial Activism? What is the Clean Air Act? What is Freedom's Watch? What is Bike to Work Day? What is the Civil Air Patrol? What is a Commuter Town? What is the Cheddar Curtain? What is a Sherman Pledge? What was a Buffalo Soldier? What is the Domino Theory? What is the French Quarter? What is Voice of America®? What are the Watts Towers? What is the Iowa Straw Poll? What is a Limousine Liberal? In the US, What is the DMV? What was the Marshall Plan? What was the Crash of 1929? What is the Order of the Coif? What is the Statue of Liberty? What is a Senate Committee? What is Proper Flag Protocol? What is a Naturalized Citizen? In California, What is Prop 13? What is the Family Leave Act? What is the Senate Candy Desk? What was the Auburn System? What was the Haymarket Riot? What is the Mason-Dixon Line? What is the Constitution Party? What is a Planned Community? What is a Duck and Cover Drill? What is the Minuteman Project? What US State is the Smartest? Who is the Postmaster General? What are Checks and Balances? What Was the Iran-Contra Affair? What was the Boston Massacre? What is the Gettysburg Address? What is Haleakala National Park? What is Strict Constructionalism? What is the History of Labor Day? When are Flags Put at Half Mast? Can I Really Fight a Traffic Ticket? What is National Dark Sky Week? Who is Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr? What Should I Know About Texas? How Can I Get a Job With the FBI? What Should I Know About Hawaii? What are the Blue Dog Democrats? What is the 82nd Airborne Division? What is an Exploratory Committee? Do All U.S. States Have Sales Tax? What is Campaign Finance Reform? What was the Asian Exclusion Act? How Old is the City of Los Angeles? What is the Saturday Evening Post? What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs? What is To Write Love on Her Arms? In the United States, What is TANF? What is the Fattest American State? What is the Secretary of the Interior? What Should I Know About Vermont? What is Over-the-Rhine in Cincinnati? What is the History of Memorial Day? What is the Selective Service System? What are the Oldest American Cities? In US Politics, What is Street Money? What Does a Congressional Page Do? What is the Army Corps of Engineers? What is the National Weather Service? What is the Economic Espionage Act? What is the National Security Agency? In US Politics, What is a Purple State? What is the BBB Wise Giving Alliance? What Should I Know About Tennessee? Which States are Part of New England? What are a Governor's Responsibilities? Do All U.S. States Have Income Taxes? What is Sing Sing Correctional Facility? What is there to do in Mobile, Alabama? What is California Coastal Cleanup Day? What Should I Know About Connecticut? What is the Emancipation Proclamation? What Happened on September 11, 2001? What Should I Know About New Orleans? What Happened in Roswell, New Mexico? What is the Witness Protection Program? What is the United States Postal Service? What are the Duties of a CASA Volunteer? What is the California Conservation Corps? What was the Winter Soldier Investigation? What is There to Do in Anchorage, Alaska? What Does the Term "Anchor Baby" Mean? What is the California Native Plant Society? What is the Presidential Protective Division? How Can I Become a United States Citizen? What should I know about Holiday Shipping? Which US States Do Not Require Seatbelts? In the United States, What is a Park Ranger? What is America's Black Holocaust Museum? What can I do to Celebrate the Fourth of July? What is the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)? What is There to Do in Birmingham, Alabama? Should the United States Stop Using Pennies? In the US Senate, What is the Nuclear Option? What is the National Nanotechnology Initiative? How Do I Register to Vote in the United States? What is the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA)? What is the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)? What is the National Computer Security Center? What is the California Coastal Access Program? Are There State Senators and Federal Senators? What are the Different Types of Military Ribbons? How Many Islands are in the San Francisco Bay? What are the Lyrics of the Star Spangled Banner? What Should I Do While Visiting Tucson, Arizona? Why is Tennessee Known as the Volunteer State? In the US Congress, What is Unanimous Consent? Where can I Find the Declaration of Independence? When Were Individual States Admitted to the U.S.? What is the Underground Railroad Freedom Center? How Do I Become an Attorney in the United States? In the United States, What is a National Monument? Can I Visit the Supreme Court while it is in Session? What is the Job of the United States Vice President? What is the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution? Do State Governors Deal With Congress In Any Way? What is the Significance of Iowa in American Politics? What Should I Know About Sending Christmas Cards? What is There to Do While Visiting Fairbanks, Alaska? Is Raw Milk Cheese Really Illegal in the United States? What is the Difference Between the CIA, FBI and NSA? What are the Lyrics of the Battle Hymn of the Republic? What are the Main Political Parties in the United States? In the United States, How Do I Contact a Representative? What is the U.S. Budget and Where does the Money Go? What Are the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? What is the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)? What Percent of the US Population Do Doctors Comprise? What is There to Do With Children in Burlington, Vermont? What Percent of the US Population Do Lawyers Comprise? What Percent of the US Population Do Teachers Comprise? How does the Supreme Court Decide Which Cases to Hear? What Was the First Inaugural Address by Thomas Jefferson? What Was the Population of the U.S. Throughout Its History? Does the United States Have Separation of Church and State? At What Age is Someone Considered a Legal Adult in the US? What Was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" Speech? What is the Difference Between the US Army and the US Marines? How Were Restrictive Covenants Used in Housing Bias in America? What are the Requirements to Run for President in the United States? Why Aren't All the Presidential Primaries in the US on the Same Day? What are the First Ten Amendments to the United States Constitution? What is the Difference Between the US Navy and the US Marine Corps? What Areas in the USA Have the Fewest Barometric Pressure Changes? In the United States Postal Service, What is the Office of the Inspector General? In the United States, What are the State-by-State Rules for Voting in the Primaries? In US Politics, What is the Difference Between Congress, the Senate, and the House of Representatives?

What is SSI? What is Graft? What is a Kiva? Who is POTUS? What is DARPA? What is Cotillion? What is the FFA? Who is Ron Paul? What is the EPA? What is La Migra? What is the GAO? What is a Sooner? What is the ACLU? What is a K1 Visa? What is Code Pink? What is Coit Tower? What is Americana? What is Ellis Island? What is a Blue Law? What is a Filibuster? What is Jamestown? What was the WPA? What are the 'Burbs? What is the NAACP? What is Fallingwater? Who are the Creoles? What is Avery Island? What is Pearl Harbor? What is Burning Man? What is a Third Party? What was Plamegate? What is a Spin Room? What are Fairgrounds? What is Obamamania? What is The Pentagon? What is a Cow County? What is Air Force One? What is a Swing State? What was a Doughboy? What are Easter Seals? What is the Sunsphere? What is the Patriot Act? What is a Chuckwagon? What is Alcatraz Island? What are Tribal Politics? What is a Liberty Dollar? What is a Money Bomb? What is Certified Mail™? What is Jefferson Island? What was the New Deal? What is the Rule of Four? What are Blue Sky Laws? Who are the Blue Angels? What is a Charter School? What is Generation Jones? What was the Flapper Era? What is the Bradley Effect? What was Riding the Rails? What is Neo-Conservatism? What is Invasion of Privacy? What is a Primary Election? What are Columbine Locks? What is the Highway Patrol? What is the Stars and Bars? What was the Volstead Act? What is an Executive Order? What is a Platinum Triangle? What is Yerba Buena Island? What is God Bless America? Does Voting Actually Matter? What is the Bay to Breakers? What is the Bohemian Grove? What is a Signing Statement? What is the Fair Housing Act? What is Political Mudslinging? What is the Electoral College? What are the Farallon Islands? What is the Potomac Primary? What is an Indian Reservation? What was the Homestead Act? What is an Authorizations Act? What is the Innocence Project? What was the Watts Rebellion? What is the Four Corners Area? What is the "American Dream"? How Much do Americans Save? What is a Bedroom Community? What is the Library of Congress? What was the Rampart Scandal? In Politics, What is Swiftboating? What is the Forest Lawn Cemetery? What is the Kaleva Bottle House? What is the 100 Thing Challenge? What are Yellow Dog Democrats? What is the Mojave Phone Booth? What is the US Attorney General? What Were the Pentagon Papers? Do I Have to Respond to the ACS? What was the Gadsden Purchase? What is the Speaker of the House? What was the Hollywood Blacklist? What is the US Secretary of State? What Should I Know About Florida? What was the Whitewater Scandal? How Big are the States in America? What is an Altered Birth Certificate? What Was the Louisiana Purchase? What Were the Salem Witch Trials? What is the USS Arizona Memorial? How Do I Know if I Have an FBI File? What is the Washington Monument? What Was the Sedition Act of 1798? Are Native Americans Dual Citizens? What is Renunciation of Citizenship? What is the National Prohibition Act? What is Grauman's Chinese Theatre? What was the Tuskegee Experiment? What was the Indian Homestead Act? What Should I Know About California? What Was the Civilian Public Service? What Should I Know About New York? What Should I Know about Caucuses? What is the 9th Ward in New Orleans? What is the Debt of the United States? What is an Adopt a Highway Program? What was the Good Roads Movement? What was the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947? What is a Hudson's Bay Point Blanket? What Happened to US Two-Dollar Bills? Why is New York Called the Big Apple? What Does it Mean to Be a US Citizen? Who are the Hatfields and the McCoys? What was the Chappaquiddick Incident? What is the Chicago Climate Exchange? What Does the Fourth of July Celebrate? What is the Central Intelligence Agency? What Types of Jobs do Americans Have? What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott? Who Receives Secret Service Protection? What Should I Know About Rhode Island? What Should I Know about Opinion Polls? What is the Ways and Means Committee? What are the Duties of the Secret Service? What is the United States Supreme Court? What was the Pinkerton Detective Agency? In American Politics, What is a 527 Group? What is the IRS (Internal Revenue Service)? How do Representatives Help Constituents? What Should I Know About Massachusetts? Why is New Orleans Called "The Big Easy"? Where Does the US Oil Supply Come From? What are Some Major American Landmarks? What is Big Brothers Big Sisters of America? Can a US Attorney Practice in Any US State? What is the Poverty Level in the United States? What is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)? How Can I Afford College in the United States? How Many Zip Codes are in the United States? What is There to Do in Montgomery, Alabama? What was the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre? In Congress, What is an Adjournment Sine Die? What is the History of the Pledge of Allegiance? What Was the First Thanksgiving Proclamation? Who is Eligible for Welfare in the United States? How did the Southern US get to be Called Dixie? Why was Cincinnati Once Known as Porkopolis? What is the ACS (American Community Survey)? How Does Outsourcing Affect the U.S. Economy? How Does Congress Override a Presidential Veto? What is the Economic Stimulus Package of 2008? What is the Commission on Presidential Debates? Why Do Students Recite the Pledge of Allegiance? What are Some Criticisms of No Child Left Behind? What are Some Criticisms of the Electoral College? What Was the Connecticut Colony Charter of 1662? Which U.S. National Parks Have the Most Visitors? What is the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army? Do Pledged Delegates Have to Vote a Specific Way? In the United States, What is a Natural Born Citizen? What is is Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay? What Should I Do While Visiting Burlington, Vermont? In the US, Is it Illegal to Get Married Before You're 18? What is the National Television Standards Committee? Why is Wearing a Seatbelt Mandatory in Most States? What should I Consider When Buying Christmas Toys? What is the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)? How Can I Get a Marriage License in the United States? Why is a Street Address Required for Voter Registration? What is the Difference Between a Caucus and a Primary? Does the US President Have the Right to Pardon Himself? In the United States, How is the Poverty Line Determined? How Many United States Presidents Were Senators First? What is the United States Department of Veterans Affairs? What Happens When a Military Base is Decommissioned? How Many United States Presidents Were Governors First? How is Political Fundraising Regulated in the United States? When Were Voting Rights Granted to All US Adult Citizens? In the United States, How Do I Get an Initiative on the Ballot? What is the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)? Do Individuals or Corporations Contribute More Income Taxes? What Was the Second Inaugural Address by Thomas Jefferson? What were the First Postage Stamps Used in the United States? In Congress, What is an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute? What Are the Most Popular Names for a Baby in the United States? What is the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)? In the US, Have There Been More Democrat or Republican Presidents? Does Washington DC Have A Governor, Senators and Representatives? What is the Difference Between a US Senator and a US Representative? What are the Requirements for Getting a Driver's License in the United States? Why is the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution so Controversial? Under the Controlled Substances Act, What Are the Five Classes of Controlled Substances?