Pledge of Allegiance

Question 1

18. What is NOT a part of the flag code?

Accepted Answer

reach out their hand palms up

Question 2

1. What year was the Pledge of Allegiance written?

Accepted Answer

1892

Question 3

17. What made the Bellamy salute controversial?

Accepted Answer

it looked like the salute of fascist countries in Europe

Question 4

12. What was the program called to sell American flags to schools?

Accepted Answer

Flag Over the Schoolhouse

Question 5

3. What was the name of the magazine where the Pledge was first published?

Accepted Answer

The Youth's Companion

Question 6

16. In the 1940s, which group objected to having to recite the Pledge of Allegiance?

Accepted Answer

Jehovah Witnesses

Question 7

10. The Pledge of Allegiance is NOT found in the U.S. Constitution.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

5. What was the controversial issue in the article?

Accepted Answer

whether a 13-year old boy actually wrote it

Question 9

4. Who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance?

Accepted Answer

Francis Bellamy

Question 10

19. West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnett what was decided?

Accepted Answer

that the free speech clause prohibits forcing students to say the pledge

Question 11

6. What pledge was used by some people before Bellamy's pledge?

Accepted Answer

Bulk Pledge

Question 12

8. When was the Pledge of Allegiance first recited by children in U.S. schools?

Accepted Answer

October 21, 1892

Question 13

2. What 2 words were added to the Pledge less than 70 years ago?

Accepted Answer

under God

Question 14

9. Which of the following words is NOT in the Pledge?

Accepted Answer

people

Question 15

20. Concerns over which group pushed the formation of pledge?

Accepted Answer

immigrants

Question 16

11. What did Bulk's pledge include that was NOT in Bellamy's?

Accepted Answer

one language

Question 17

14. When did Bellamy die?

Accepted Answer

1931

Question 18

15. When did Congress first officially pass a bill promoting the Pledge of Allegiance in schools?

Accepted Answer

summer of 1942

Question 19

7. What was Bellamy's occupation?

Accepted Answer

a minister

Question 20

13. Why did Bellamy lose his job as a minister?

Accepted Answer

he expressed socialist ideas

Questions 20