Citizens Test #58-87

Question 1

What are reasons colonists came to America?

Answer 1

▪ freedom, political liberty, religious freedom, economic opportunity, escape persecution,

Question 2

Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

Answer 2

▪ Native Americans

Question 3

What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?

Answer 3

▪ Africans

Question 4

Why did the colonists fight the British?

Answer 4

▪ because of high taxes (taxation without representation), because they were forced to house British soldiers (boarding, quartering), because they didn’t have self-government,

Question 5

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 5

▪ (Thomas) Jefferson

Question 6

When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

Answer 6

▪ July 4, 1776

Question 7

There were 13 original states. Name them..

Answer 7

▪ New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

Question 8

What happened at the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 8

▪ The Constitution was written, The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.

Question 9

When was the Constitution written?

Answer 9

▪ 1787

Question 10

The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.

Answer 10

▪ (James) Madison, (Alexander) Hamilton, (John) Jay, Publius

Question 11

For what is Benjamin Franklin is famous?

Answer 11

▪ 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

Question 12

Who is the “Father of Our Country”?

Answer 12

▪ (George) Washington

Question 13

Who was the first President?*

Answer 13

▪ (George) Washington

Question 14

What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?

Answer 14

▪ the Louisiana Territory

Question 15

Name the wars fought by the United States in the 1800s.

Answer 15

▪ War of 1812, Mexican-American War 1846-48, Civil War 1861-65, Spanish-American War 1898

Question 16

Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.

Answer 16

▪ the Civil War, the War between the States

Question 17

Name one problem that led to the Civil War.

Answer 17

▪ slavery, economic reasons, states’ rights

Question 18

What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?*

Answer 18

▪ freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation), saved (or preserved) the Union, led the United States during the Civil War

Question 19

What did Susan B. Anthony do?

Answer 19

▪ fought for women’s rights

Question 20

Name the wars fought by the United States in the 1900s.*

Answer 20

▪ 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)

Question 21

Who was President during World War I?

Answer 21

▪ (Woodrow) Wilson

Question 22

Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?

Answer 22

▪ (Franklin) Roosevelt

Question 23

Who did the United States fight in World War II?

Answer 23

▪ Japan, Germany, and Italy

Question 24

Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?

Answer 24

▪ World War II

Question 25

During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?

Answer 25

▪ Communism

Question 26

What movement tried to end racial discrimination?

Answer 26

▪ civil rights (movement)

Question 27

What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?*

Answer 27

▪ fought for civil rights, worked for equality for all Americans

Question 28

What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States?

Answer 28

▪ Terrorists attacked the United States.

Question 29

Name Native American tribes in the United States.

[USCIS Officers will be supplied with a list of federally recognized American Indian tribes.]

Answer 29

▪ Cherokee, Navajo, Sioux, Chippewa, Choctaw, Pueblo, Apache, Iroquois, Creek, Blackfeet, Seminole, Cheyenne, Arawak, Shawnee, Mohegan, Huron, Oneida, Lakota, Crow, Teton, Hopi, Inuit,

Question 30

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Answer 30

▪ freed the slaves