1. What is the supreme
law of the country?
2. What does
the Constitution do ?
3. The idea of
self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these
words?
4. What is an amendment
?
5. What do we call
the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
6. What is one right or
freedom from the First Amendment ?
7. How many amendments
does the Constitution have ?
8. What did the
Declaration of Independence do?
9. What are the two
rights in the Declaration of Independence ?
10. What is freedom of
religion ?
11. What is the economic
system in the United States?
12. What is the
"rule of law"?
13. Name one of branch or
part of the government.
14. What stops one
branch of government from becoming too powerful ?
15. Who is in charge of
the executive ?
16. Who makes federal
laws ?
17. What are the two
parts of the U.S. Congress ?
18. How many U.S.
Senators are there ?
19. We elect a U.S.
Senator for how many years?
20. Who is one of your
state's U.S. Senators now ?
21. The House of
Representatives has how many voting members ?
22. We elect a U.S.
Representative how many years ?
23. Name your U.S.
Representative?
24. Who does a U.S.
Senator represent ?
25. Why do some states
have more representatives than other states?
26. We elect a president
for how many years ?
27. In What month
do we vote for president ?
28. What is the name of
the president of the United States now?
29. What is the name of
the vice president of the United States now?
30. If the President can
no longer serve, who becomes President ?
31. If both the
President and the vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President ?
32. Who is the Commander
in Chief of the military ?
33. Who signs bills to
become laws ?
34. Who vetoes
bills ?
35. What does the
president's cabinet do ?
36. What are two cabinet
level positions ?
37. What does the
judicial branch do?
38. What is the highest
court in the United States ?
39. How many justices
are on the Supreme court?
40. Who is the chief
justice of the United States now?
41. Under our
Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one of the
power of the federal government?
42. Under our
Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one of the power of the
states?
43. Who is the
governor of your state now?
44. What is the capital
of your state ?
45. What are the two
major political parties in the USA ?
46. What is the
political part of the president now?
47. What is the name of
the Speaker of the House of the representatives now ?
48. There are four
amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them.
49. What is one
responsibility that is only for United States citizens ?
50. What is one right
that is only for United States citizens ?
51. What are two rights
of everyone living in the United States?
52. What do we show
loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance ?
53. What is one promise
you make when you become a United States citizen?
54. How old do citizens
have to be to vote for President?
55. What are two ways
that Americans can participate in their democracy?
56. What is the last day
you can send federal income tax forms ?
57. When must all men
register for the Selective Service?
58. What is one reason
colonists came to America ?
59. Who lived in America
before the Europeans arrived ?
60. What group of people
was taken to America and sold as slaves ?
61. Why did the colonist
fight the British ?
62. Who wrote the
Declaration of Independence ?
63. When was the
Declaration of Independence adopted ?
64. There were 13
original states. Name three ?
65. What happened at the
Constitutional Convention?
66. When was the
Constitution written?
67. The Federalist
Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one
of the writers?
68. What is one thing
Benjamin Franklin is famous for ?
69. What is the
"Father of Our Country" ?
70. Who was the
first President ?
71. What territory did
the United States buy from France in 1803 ?
72. Name one war fought
by the United States in 1800s ?
73. Name the war between
the North and the South?
74. Name one problem
that led the Civil War ?
75. What was one
important thing that Abraham Lincoln did ?
76. What did the Emancipation
Declaration do?
77. What did Susan B.
Anthony do ?
78. Name one war fought
by the United States in the 1900s?
79. What was President
during the World war I ?
80. What was President
during the World war II ?
81. Who did the United
States fight in the World WarII ?
82. Before he was
President, Eisenhower was a General. What war was he in?
83. During the
cold war, what was the concern of the United States?
84. What movement tried
to end racial discrimination?
85. What did Martin
Luther King , Jr. do?
86. What major event
happened on September 11, 2001 in the United States ?
87. Name one American
Indian tribe in the United States ?
88. Name on of the
longest rivers in the United States ?
89. What ocean is on the
West coast of the United States ?
90. What ocean is on the
East coast of the United States ?
91. Name one US
territory ?
92. Name one state that
borders Canada?
93. . Name one state
that borders Mexico
94. What is the capital
of the United States ?
95. Where is the Statue
of Liberty ?
96. Why does the flag
have 13 stripes?
97. Why does the flag
have 50 stars?
98. What is the name of
the national anthem ?
99. When do we celebrate
Independence Day ?
100. What is the ?
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Citizenship Test Questions & Answers
1. What is the supreme
law of the country?
Answer: the Constitution
2. What does
the Constitution do ?
Answer:
Ø sets up the government
Ø defines the government
Ø protects basic rights of
Americans
3. The idea of self-government
is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?
Answer: We the People
4. What is an amendment
?
Answer:
Ø a change (to the
Constitution)
Ø an addition (to the
Constitution)
5. What do we call
the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
Answer: the Bill of
Rights
6. What is one right or
freedom from the First Amendment ?
Answer:
Ø speech
Ø religion
Ø assembly
Ø press
Ø petition the government
7. How many amendments
does the Constitution have ?
Answer: twenty seven(27)
8. What did the
Declaration of Independence do?
Answer:
Ø announced our
independence (from Great Britain)
Ø declared our
independence (from Great Britain)
Ø said that the United
States is free from (from Great Britain)
9. What are the two
rights in the Declaration of Independence ?
Answer:
Ø Life
Ø Liberty
Ø pursuit of happiness
10. What is freedom of
religion ?
Answer:
You can practice any
religion or not practice a religion
11. What is the economic
system in the United States?
Answer:
Ø Capitalist economy
Ø market economy
12. What is the
"rule of law"?
Answer:
Ø Everyone must follow the
law
Ø Leaders must obey the
law
Ø Government must obey the
law
Ø No one is above
the law.
13. Nameone of branch or
part of the government.
Answer:
Ø Congress
Ø Legislative
Ø President
Ø executive
Ø the courts
Ø judicial
14. What stops one
branch of government from becoming too powerful ?
Answer:
Ø checks & balances
Ø separation of powers
15. Who is in charge of
the executive ?
Answer: the
President
16. Who makes federal
laws ?
Answer:
Ø Congress
Ø Senate and House of
Representatives
Ø (U.S. or national)
Legislature
17. What are the two
parts of the U.S. Congress ?
Answer: Senate and
House of Representatives
18. How many U.S.
Senators are there ?
Answer: One Hundred(100)
19. We elect a U.S.
Senator for how many years?
Answer: Six (6)
20. Who is one of your
state's U.S. Senators now ?
Answer:
Chuck Schumer
Kirsten Gillibrand
21. The House of
Representatives has how many voting members ?
Answer: four
hundred thirty five.
22. We elect a U.S.
Representative how many years ?
Answer: two(2)
23. Name your U.S.
Representative?
Answer: Joseph Crowley
24. Who does a U.S.
Senator represent ?
Answer: all people of the
state.
25. Why do some states
have more representatives than other states?
Answer:
Ø (because of) the
state's population
Ø (because)they have more
people
Ø (because) some states
have more people.
26. We elect a president
for how many years ?
Answer: Four (4)
27. In What month
do we vote for president ?
Answer: November
28. What is the name of
the president of the United States now?
Answer: Donald J Trump
29. What is the name of
the vice president of the United States now?
Answer: Mike Pence
30. If the
President can no longer serve, who becomes President ?
Answer: the
vice President
31. If both the
President and the vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President ?
Answer: the speaker of
the House
32. Who is the Commander
in Chief of the military ?
Answer: the President
33. Who signs bills to
become laws ?
Answer: the president
34. Who vetoes
bills ?
Answer: the president
35. What does the
president's cabinet do ?
Answer: advises
the president
36. What are two cabinet
level positions ?
Answer:
Ø Secretary of Agriculture
Ø Secretary of Commerce
Ø Secretary of
Defense
Ø Secretary of
Education
Ø Secretary of Energy
Ø Secretary of Health and
Human Services
Ø Secretary of Homeland
Security
Ø Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development
Ø Secretary of the
Interior
Ø Secretary of labor
Ø Secretary of State
Ø Secretary of
Transportation
Ø Secretary of the
Treasury
Ø Secretary of
Veterans Affairs
Ø Attorney General
Ø Vice President
37. What does the
judicial branch do?
Answer:
Ø Reviews the laws
Ø explains the laws
Ø resolves
disputes(disagreements)
Ø decides if a law goes
against the Constitution
38. What is the highest
court in the United States ?
Answer: the Supreme
Court
39. How many justices
are on the Supreme court?
Answer: Nine(9)
40. Who is the chief
justice of the United States now?
Answer: John
Roberts
41. Under our
Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one of the
power of the federal government?
Answer:
Ø To print money
Ø to declare war
Ø to create army
Ø to make treaties
42. Under our
Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one of the power of the
states?
Ø provide
schooling and education
Ø provide
protection(police)
Ø provide
safety(fire departments
Ø give
a driver's license
Ø approve
zoning and land use
43. Who is the
governor of your state now?
Answer: Andrew M. Cuomo
(56th governor)
44. What is the capital
of your state ?
Answer: Albany
45. What are the two
major political parties in the USA ?
Answer: Democratic and
Republican
46. What is the
political part of the president now?
Answer: Republican Party
47. What is the name of
the Speaker of the House of the representatives now ?
Answer: Paul D.
Ryan
48. There are four
amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them.
Answer:
Ø Citizens eighteen and
older (can vote)
Ø You don't have to
pay (a poll tax) for pay to vote
Ø Any citizen can vote.
(Men and women can vote)
Ø A male citizen of any
race (can vote)
49. What is one
responsibility that is only for United States citizens ?
Answer:
Ø Serve on a jury
Ø vote in a federal
election
50. What is one right
that is only for United States citizens ?
Answer:
Ø vote in a federal
election
Ø run for federal office
51. What are two rights
of everyone living in the United States?
Answer:
Ø freedom of speech
Ø freedom of expression
Ø freedom of assembly
Ø freedom to petition the
government
Ø freedom of religion
Ø the right to bear arms
52. What do we show
loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance ?
Answer:
Ø the United States
Ø the flag
53. What is one promise
you make when you become a United States citizen?
Answer:
Ø give up loyalty to other
countries
Ø defend the Constitution
and laws of the United States.
Ø obey the law of the
United States
Ø serve in the US
military(if needed)
Ø serve(do important work
for ) the nation(if needed)
Ø by loyal to the United
States
54. How old do citizens
have to be to vote for President?
Answer: eighteen (18)
and older
55. What are two ways
that Americans can participate in their democracy?
Answer:
Ø Vote
Ø Join a political party
Ø help with a campaign
Ø join a civic group
Ø give an elected official
your opinion on an issue
Ø call Senators and
Representatives
Ø publicly support or
oppose an issue or policy
Ø run for office
Ø write to a newspaper
56. What is the last day
you can send federal income tax forms ?
Answer: April 15
57. When must all men
register for the Selective Service?
Answer:
Ø at age eighteen(18)
Ø between eighteen(18) and
twenty six(26)
58. What is one reason
colonists came to America ?
Answer:
Ø freedom
Ø political liberty
Ø religious freedom
Ø economic opportunity
Ø practice their religion
Ø escape persecution
59. Who lived in America
before the Europeans arrived ?
Answer:
Ø American Indians
Ø Native Americans
60. What group of people
was taken to America and sold as slaves ?
Answer:
Ø Africans
Ø people from Africa
61. Why did the colonist
fight the British ?
Answer:
Ø because of high
taxes(taxation without representation)
Ø because the British Army
stayed in their houses(boarding, quartering)
Ø because they didn't have
self-government.
62. Who wrote the Declaration
of Independence ?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
63. When was the
Declaration of Independence adopted ?
Answer: July 4, 1776
64. There were 13
original states. Name three ?
Answer:
Ø New Hampshire
Ø Massachusetts
Ø Rhode Island
Ø Connecticut
Ø New York
Ø New Jersey
Ø Pennsylvania
Ø Delaware
Ø Maryland
Ø Virginia
Ø North Carolina
Ø South Carolina
Ø Georgia
65. What happened at the
Constitutional Convention?
Answer:
Ø the
Constitutional was written.
Ø The
Founding Fathers wrote the Constitutional
66. When was the
Constitution written?
Answer: 1787
67. The Federalist
Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one
of the writers?
Answer:
Ø James Madison
Ø Alexander Hamilton
Ø John Jay
Ø Publius
68. What is one thing
Benjamin Franklin is famous for ?
Answer:
Ø U.S diplomat
Ø oldest member of the
Constitutional Convention
Ø first postmaster General
of the United States
Ø writer of "Poor
Richard's Almanac"
Ø started the first free
libraries
69. What is the
"Father of Our Country" ?
Answer: George
Washington
70. Who was the
first President ?
Answer: George
Washington
71. What territory did
the United States buy from France in 1803 ?
Answer:
> the Louisiana
territory
>Louisiana
72. Name one war fought by
the United States in 1800s ?
Answer:
Ø War of 1812
Ø Mexican American War
Ø Spanish-American War
Ø the Civil War
73. Name the war between
the North and the South?
Answer:
Ø the Civil War
Ø the War between the
states
74. Name one problem
that led the Civil War ?
Answer:
Ø Slavery
Ø economic reasons
Ø states' rights
75. What was one
important thing that Abraham Lincoln did ?
Answer:
Ø Freed the slaves
Ø saved or preserved the
Union
Ø Led the United States
during Civil War.
76. What did the Emancipation
Declaration do?
Answer:
Ø Freed the slaves
Ø Freed the slaves in
Confederacy
Ø Freed the slaves in
Confederacy states
Ø Freed the slaves in most
southern states
77. What did Susan B.
Anthony do ?
Answer:
Ø fought for women's
rights
Ø fought for civil rights
78. Name one war fought
by the United States in the 1900s?
Answer:
Ø World War I
Ø World War II
Ø Korean War
Ø Vietnam War
Ø Persian Gulf War
79. What was President
during the World war I ?
Answer:
Woodrow Wilson
80. What was President
during the World war II ?
Answer: Franklin
Roosevelt
81. Who did the United
States fight in the World WarII ?
Answer:
Japan, Germany and Italy
82. Before he was
President, Eisenhower was a General. What war was he in?
Answer: World War II
83. During the
cold war, what was the concern of the United States?
Answer: Communism
84. What movement tried
to end racial discrimination?
Answer: Civil rights
movement
85. What did Martin
Luther King , Jr. do?
Answer:
Ø Fought Civil
rights
Ø Worked for equality for
all Americans
86. What major event
happened on September 11, 2001 in the United States ?
Answer: Terrorists
attacked the United States
87. Name one American
Indian tribe in the United States ?
Answer:
Cherokee
|
Creek
|
Oneida
|
Navajo
|
Blackfeet
|
Lakota
|
Sioux
|
Seminole
|
Crow
|
Chippewa
|
Cheyenne
|
Teton
|
Choctaw
|
Arawak
|
Hopi
|
Pueblo
|
Shawnee
|
Inuit
|
Apache
|
Mohegan
|
|
Iroquois
|
Huron
|
|
88. Name on of the
longest rivers in the United States ?
Answer: Missouri,
Mississippi
89. What ocean is on the
West coast of the United States ?
Answer: the Pacific
ocean
90. What ocean is on the
East coast of the United States ?
Answer: the Atlantic
ocean
91. Name one US
territory ?
Answer:
Puerto Rico
|
Northern Mariana Islands
|
U.S. Virgin Islands
|
Guam
|
American Samoa
|
|
92. Name one state that
borders Canada?
Maine
|
Ohio
|
Idaho
|
New Hampshire
|
Michigan
|
Washington
|
Vermont
|
Minnesota
|
Alaska
|
New York
|
North Dakota
|
|
Pennsylvania
|
Montana
|
|
93. . Name one state
that borders Mexico
Answer:
California
|
Arizona
|
New Mexico
|
Texas
|
|
|
|
|
94. What is the capital
of the United States ?
Answer: Washington D.C.
95. Where is the Statue
of Liberty ?
Answer:
Ø New York (Harbor)
Ø Liberty Island
96. Why does the flag
have 13 stripes?
Answer:
Ø because there were 13
original colonies.
Ø because the stripes
represent the original colonies.
97. Why does the flag
have 50 stars?
Answer:
Ø because there is one
star for each state
Ø because each star
represents a state
Ø because there are 50
states
98. What is the name of
the national anthem ?
Answer: The
Star-Spangled Banner
99. When do we celebrate
Independence Day ?
Answer: July 4
100. What is the
national US holidays ?
Answer: Name two
national US holidays?
New
Year's Day
|
Independence
|
Thanksgiving
|
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day
|
Labor
Day
|
Christmas
|
Presidents'
Day
|
Columbus
Day
|
|
Memorial
Day
|
Veterans
Day
|
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