Citizens Test #58-87 Flashcards
What are reasons colonists came to America?
▪ freedom, political liberty, religious freedom, economic opportunity, escape persecution,
Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
▪ Native Americans
What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
▪ Africans
Why did the colonists fight the British?
▪ because of high taxes (taxation without representation), because they were forced to house British soldiers (boarding, quartering), because they didn’t have self-government,
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
▪ (Thomas) Jefferson
When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
▪ July 4, 1776
There were 13 original states. Name them..
▪ New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
▪ The Constitution was written, The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.
When was the Constitution written?
▪ 1787
The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
▪ (James) Madison, (Alexander) Hamilton, (John) Jay, Publius
For what is Benjamin Franklin is famous?
▪ U.S. diplomat, oldest member of the Constitutional Convention, first Postmaster General of the US, writer of “Poor Richard’s Almanac”
▪ started the first free libraries
Who is the “Father of Our Country”?
▪ (George) Washington
Who was the first President?*
▪ (George) Washington
What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
▪ the Louisiana Territory
Name the wars fought by the United States in the 1800s.
▪ War of 1812, Mexican-American War 1846-48, Civil War 1861-65, Spanish-American War 1898
Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.
▪ the Civil War, the War between the States
Name one problem that led to the Civil War.
▪ slavery, economic reasons, states’ rights
What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?*
▪ freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation), saved (or preserved) the Union, led the United States during the Civil War
What did Susan B. Anthony do?
▪ fought for women’s rights
Name the wars fought by the United States in the 1900s.*
▪ World War I 1917-18, World War II 1941-45, Korean War 1950-53 (President Truman), Vietnam War 1964-75 (Johnson, Nixon, Ford), (Persian) Gulf War 199 ) (George Bush, Sr), War in Afghanistan 2001-Present (George W. Bush, Obama), Iraq 2003-Present (George W. Bush, Obama)
Who was President during World War I?
▪ (Woodrow) Wilson
Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?
▪ (Franklin) Roosevelt
Who did the United States fight in World War II?
▪ Japan, Germany, and Italy
Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?
▪ World War II
During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?
▪ Communism
What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
▪ civil rights (movement)
What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?*
▪ fought for civil rights, worked for equality for all Americans
What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States?
▪ Terrorists attacked the United States.
Name Native American tribes in the United States.
[USCIS Officers will be supplied with a list of federally recognized American Indian tribes.]
▪ Cherokee, Navajo, Sioux, Chippewa, Choctaw, Pueblo, Apache, Iroquois, Creek, Blackfeet, Seminole, Cheyenne, Arawak, Shawnee, Mohegan, Huron, Oneida, Lakota, Crow, Teton, Hopi, Inuit,
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
▪ freed the slaves
