True or False:

• The United States was founded as a democracy

• Lincoln freed the slaves when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation 

• “Already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health care costs.”

• The “AR” in AR-15 is short for “Assault Rifle”

• Roe V Wade ruled that abortion was legal, a fetus was not a human life.

• the Founders meant that the States needed to form a National Guard when they wrote “a well-regulated Militia” in the Second Amendment

• Obama pointed to the Lilly Ledbetter Act during the 2012 campaign as a crowning achievement, since it required equal pay for women, and tens of thousands of women have benefitted as a result of it’s passage

• Everyone has a right to health insurance in the United States

• Funding for cops, teachers and fire-fighters is the responsibility of the Federal government

• The Constitution forbids using the armed forces to protect the border

• The 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the United States

• The “General Welfare Clause” in the Constitution mandates that government create welfare programs to benefit the People

• The original thirteen states agreed to subordinate their sovereignty to the Federal Government when they ratified the Constitution

• Woodrow Wilson racially integrated the Armed Services

• FDR brought us out of the Great Depression by instituting government work programs

• Carbon Dioxide is a pollutant, which is addressed in the Clean Air Act

• Joseph McCarthy started the House Un-American Activities Committee in the fifties and falsely accused Americans of being communists 

• Herbert Hoover’s policies helped the rich get richer, which led to the Great Depression

• Social Security is an insurance program

• Sandra Fluke testified before a House committee concerning a need for free contraception for impoverished Georgetown law students.