2025 Citizenship Test Flashcards
U.S. Civics for Naturalization
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This set of flashcards covers the 100 civics questions and answers for the naturalization test. It includes information about American government, history, geography, and symbols, designed to help applicants pass the civics portion of the naturalization test.
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What is the supreme law of the land?
What does the Constitution do?
Self-government idea:
What is an amendment?
First ten amendments:
One right from the First Amendment:
How many amendments does the Constitution have?
What did the Declaration of Independence do?
Two rights in the Declaration of Independence:
What is freedom of religion?
The U.S. economic system:
What is the rule of law?
One branch of the government
Checks and balances or:
Who is in charge of the executive branch?
Who makes federal laws?
Two parts of the U.S. Congress:
How many U.S. Senators are there?
How many years do we elect a U.S. Senator for?
Who does a U.S. Senator represent?
The House of Representatives has how many voting members?
How many years do we elect a U.S. Representative for?
Why do some states have more Representatives than other states?
How many years do we elect a President for?
In what month do we vote for President?
If the President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
Commander in Chief of the military:
Who signs bills to become laws?
Who vetoes bills?
What does the President's Cabinet do?
Two Cabinet-level positions:
What does the judicial branch do?
What is the highest court in the United States?
One power of the federal government:
One power of the states:
Two major political parties in the United States
One amendment about who can vote:
One responsibility only for U.S. citizens:
One right only for United States citizens:
Two rights of everyone living in the United States:
Pledge of Allegiance: Show loyalty to:
One promise you make when you become a United States citizen:
How old do citizens have to be to vote for President?
Two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy:
Last day to send in federal income tax forms:
Selective Service registration:
One reason colonists came to America:
Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
Group of people taken to America and sold as slaves:
Why did the colonists fight the British?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
There were 13 original states. Name three.
What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
When was the Constitution written?
One writer of the Federalist Papers:
One thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for:
Who is the Father of Our Country?
First President of the United States:
What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
One war fought by the United States in the 1800s:
U.S. war between the North and the South:
One problem that led to the Civil War:
One important thing that Abraham Lincoln did:
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
What did Susan B. Anthony do?
One war fought by the United States in the 1900s:
Who was President during World War I?
President during the Great Depression and World War II:
Who did the United States fight in World War II?
Eisenhower's war before being President:
Main concern of the United States during the Cold War:
What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?
Major event on September 11, 2001, in the United States:
One American Indian tribe in the United States:
One of the two longest rivers in the United States:
What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?
What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States?
One U.S. territory:
One state that borders Canada:
One state that borders Mexico:
Capital of the United States:
Where is the Statue of Liberty?
Why does the flag have 13 stripes?
Why does the flag have 50 stars?
Name of the national anthem:
When do we celebrate Independence Day?
Name two national U.S. holidays.