General Information
Presidential materials
First ladies
Documents
Statistics
Buildings
General Information
Federal government.
http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/federal.shtml
Branches of the U.S. government from the U.S. Printing Office. Grades
6-8 and grades 9-12.
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/6-8/government/branches.html
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/9-12/government/branches.html
Links to the different governmental departments and the people that are a part of them.
http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/All_Agencies/index.shtml
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Executive_Branch/Departments_and_Agencies/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Latest federal government statistics.
http://www.bettycjung.net/Govstats.htm
http://www.fedstats.gov/
A Library of Congress internet resource page on state and local governments.Also, indexed by state.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/stategov/stategov.html
A comprehensive guide to American Government and Politics on the net.
http://www.politicsone.com/parties.htm
http://www.thisnation.com/
http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/uspolitics.html
U.S. political parties.
http://politics1.com/parties.htm
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Parties/
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761558305/political_parties_in_the_united_states.html
Contacting the members of Congress.
http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/index.html
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.shtml
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
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Presidential Materials
The presidents of the United States.
http://www.presidentsusa.net/
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/
Inaugural address of the presidents of the United States/
http://www.bartleby.com/124/
State of the Union speeches from the presidents.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/sou.php
Presidential Vetoes, 1789–2008.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0801767.html
http://www.usconstitution.net/pres_veto.html
Can you name the presidents before you run out of time?
http://www.sporcle.com/games/presidents.php
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First Ladies
First Ladies of the United States
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/
http://www.firstladies.org/Bibliography.htm
The role of First Ladies.
http://www.presidentprofiles.com/General-Information/The-Role-of-First-Lady-Martha-Washington-to-Laura-Bush.html
Portraits of the presidents and first ladies.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/prespSubjects01.html
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Documents
Declaration of Independence
http://memory.loc.gov/const/declar.html
http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=2
http://www.usconstitution.net/declar.html
The United States Constitution
http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=9
100 Milestone documents of the United States.
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?page=milestone
The Federalist Papers
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/fed.asp
http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html
Historical documents of the United States, pre-colonial to the present.
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/#pre
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html
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Statistics
The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.
http://www.fedstats.gov/
http://www.census.gov/
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Buildings
The Whitehouse.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/white_house_101/fun_facts/
http://www.whitehousehistory.org/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/life/video/index.html
Monuments and memorials.
http://www.nps.gov/wamo/
http://gorp.away.com/gorp/resource/us_nm/main.htm
http://dc.about.com/cs/sightseeing/a/Monuments.htm
http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Outdoors/Parks_and_Public_Lands/United_States/National_Monuments/
Smithsonian institute.
http://www.si.edu/
National Air and Space Museum.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/
National Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/
http://www.mnh.si.edu/
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