Engaging Congress

A game that explores the challenges of sustaining representative democracy.

Engaging Congress is a game that uses primary source documents, photographs, political cartoons, maps, and other items to explore the challenges of sustaining representative democracy in our complex and diverse nation today.

Features:

- Introductory Video

- Theme-based Stories

- Primary Source Gallery

- Primary Source Analysis

- Trivia Challenge

- Assessment Tools

- Mini-games...

...More

Engaging Congress content is divided into five thematic stories:

- More Equal Than Others (Influencing the Political Process)

- Laws and Sausages (Separation of Powers)

- Vote Early, Vote Often (Voting Rights)

- A Balancing Act (The Federal Budget)

- Fair is not Always Equal (Federalism and States' Rights)

The accompanying Engaging Congress website (engagingcongress.org) contains many additional resources including:

- The Teacher Toolbox

- Curriculum Guide

- Correlation of content with Social Studies standards

- Bank of multiple-choice and discussion assessment questions

- Links to Library of Congress primary source analysis guides

- Downloadable PDFs and PNGs of all primary source documents

- And more.