Place the States Game

It represents the original colonies and first 13 states: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode …

The Founding Fathers now had to get the states to agree to the document and to vote in favor of it. Nine states needed to vote for the Constitution for it to be accepted.

The Constitution became law on June 21, 1788, when two-thirds of the states ratified it. The 13 colonies later became the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New …

The states that did not have frontier borders wanted the government to control the sale of these lands so that all states could benefit. States with frontier borders, on the other hand, wanted to control as …

The delegates, or representatives for the states, debated for months over what would be included in the Constitution. Some states were in favor of a strong central government, while other states were …

The United States flag is a symbol of our Nation. It has 13 horizontal stripes that stand for the 13 original colonies; seven are red, and six are white. In the upper left corner there are 50 white stars on a blue …

The USCIS is the main Federal agency that grants United States citizenship; their Web site has the resources needed to answer questions on a range of issues for future U.S. citizens.

Delegates from Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, the southernmost states, ended the list with the column on the left. Some of the delegates were not in Philadelphia on that day, but signed …

The structure of the document has not changed since it was written. Of the thousands of proposals that have been made to amend the Constitution, only 33 have been sent to the States for ratification; of …