All 128 USCIS Civics Test Questions and Answers

Answers: Republic • Constitution-based federal republic • Representative democracy

Answers: (U.S.) Constitution • Constitution • U.S. Constitution • The Constitution

Answers: Forms the government • Defines powers of government • Defines the parts of government • Protects the rights of the people

Answers: Self-government • Popular sovereignty • Consent of the governed • People should govern themselves • (Example of) social contract • Social contract

Answers: Amendments • The amendment process

Answers: (The basic) rights of Americans • The basic rights of Americans • Rights of Americans • (The basic) rights of people living in the United States • The basic rights of people living in the United States • Rights of people living in the United States

Answers: Twenty-seven (27) • 27 • Twenty-seven

Answers: It says America is free from British control. • It says all people are created equal. • It identifies inherent rights. • It identifies individual freedoms.

Answers: Declaration of Independence

Answers: Equality • Liberty • Social contract • Natural rights • Limited government • Self-government

Answers: Declaration of Independence

Answers: Capitalism • Free market economy

Answers: Everyone must follow the law. • Leaders must obey the law. • Government must obey the law. • No one is above the law.

Answers: Declaration of Independence • Articles of Confederation • Federalist Papers • Anti-Federalist Papers • Virginia Declaration of Rights • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut • Mayflower Compact • Iroquois Great Law of Peace

Answers: So one part does not become too powerful • Checks and balances • Separation of powers

Answers: Legislative, executive, and judicial • Congress, president, and the courts

Answers: Executive branch

Answers: (U.S.) Congress • U.S. Congress • Congress • (U.S. or national) legislature • Legislature • Legislative branch

Answers: Senate and House (of Representatives) • Senate and House of Representatives • Senate and House

Answers: Writes laws • Declares war • Makes the federal budget

Answers: One hundred (100) • 100 • One hundred

Answers: Six (6) years • 6 years • Six years

Answers: Answers will vary

Answers: Four hundred thirty-five (435) • 435 • Four hundred thirty-five

Answers: Two (2) years • 2 years • Two years

Answers: To more closely follow public opinion • To be closer to people • To be closer to the people • To follow public opinion • To stay closer to the people

Answers: Two (2) • 2 • Two

Answers: Equal representation (for small states) • Equal representation • The Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise) • The Great Compromise • Connecticut Compromise

Answers: Answers will vary

Answers: Mike Johnson • Johnson

Answers: Citizens of their state • People of their state

Answers: Citizens from their state

Answers: Citizens in their (congressional) district • Citizens in their district • People from their (congressional) district • People in their district

Answers: Citizens from their (congressional) district • Citizens from their district

Answers: (Because of) the state's population • Because of the state's population • The state's population • (Because) they have more people • They have more people • (Because) some states have more people • Some states have more people

Answers: Four (4) years • 4 years • Four years

Answers: (Because of) the 22nd Amendment • Because of the 22nd Amendment • The 22nd Amendment • To keep the president from becoming too powerful

Answers: Donald Trump • Trump

Answers: JD Vance • Vance

Answers: The Vice President (of the United States) • The Vice President • Vice President

Answers: Signs bills into law • Vetoes bills • Enforces laws • Commander in Chief (of the military) • Commander in Chief • Chief diplomat • Appoints federal judges

Answers: The President (of the United States) • The President • President

Answers: The President (of the United States) • The President • President

Answers: The President (of the United States) • The President • President

Answers: The President (of the United States) • The President • President

Answers: President (of the United States) • President • Cabinet • Federal departments and agencies

Answers: Advises the President (of the United States) • Advises the President

Answers: Attorney General • Secretary of Agriculture • Secretary of Commerce • Secretary of Education • Secretary of Energy • Secretary of Health and Human Services • Secretary of Homeland Security • Secretary of Housing and Urban Development • Secretary of the Interior • Secretary of Labor • Secretary of State • Secretary of Transportation • Secretary of the Treasury • Secretary of Veterans Affairs • Secretary of War (Defense) • Secretary of Defense • Vice-President • Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency • Administrator of the Small Business Administration • Director of the Central Intelligence Agency • Director of the Office of Management and Budget • Director of National Intelligence • United States Trade Representative

Answers: It decides who is elected president. • It provides a compromise between the popular election of the president and congressional selection.

Answers: Supreme Court • Federal Courts

Answers: Reviews laws • Explains laws • Resolves disputes (disagreements) about the law • Resolves disputes about the law • Decides if a law goes against the (U.S.) Constitution • Decides if a law goes against the Constitution

Answers: Supreme Court

Answers: Nine (9) • 9 • Nine

Answers: Five (5) • 5 • Five

Answers: (For) life • For life • Life • Lifetime appointment • (Until) retirement • Until retirement • Retirement

Answers: To be independent (of politics) • To be independent • To limit outside (political) influence • To limit outside influence

Answers: John Roberts • Roberts

Answers: Print paper money • Mint coins • Declare war • Create an army • Make treaties • Set foreign policy

Answers: Provide schooling and education • Provide protection (police) • Provide protection • Provide safety (fire departments) • Provide safety • Give a driver's license • Approve zoning and land use

Answers: (It states that the) powers not given to the federal government belong to the states or to the people. • Powers not given to the federal government belong to the states or to the people.

Answers: Answers will vary

Answers: Answers will vary

Answers: Citizens eighteen (18) and older (can vote). • Citizens 18 and older can vote • You don't have to pay (a poll tax) to vote. • You don't have to pay to vote • Any citizen can vote. (Women and men can vote.) • Any citizen can vote • A male citizen of any race (can vote). • A male citizen of any race can vote

Answers: Citizens • Citizens of the United States • U.S. citizens

Answers: Freedom of expression • Freedom of speech • Freedom of assembly • Freedom to petition the government • Freedom of religion • The right to bear arms

Answers: The United States • The flag

Answers: Give up loyalty to other countries • Defend the (U.S.) Constitution • Defend the Constitution • Obey the laws of the United States • Serve in the military (if needed) • Serve (help, do important work for) the nation (if needed) • Be loyal to the United States

Answers: Be born in the United States, under the conditions set by the 14th Amendment • Be born in the United States • Naturalize • Derive citizenship (under conditions set by Congress) • Derive citizenship

Answers: Vote • Run for office • Join a political party • Help with a campaign • Join a civic group • Join a community group • Give an elected official your opinion (on an issue) • Contact elected officials • Support or oppose an issue or policy • Write to a newspaper

Answers: Vote • Pay taxes • Obey the law • Serve in the military • Run for office • Work for local, state, or federal government

Answers: Required by law • All people pay to fund the federal government • Required by the (U.S.) Constitution (16th Amendment) • Required by the Constitution • Civic duty

Answers: Required by law • Civic duty • Makes the draft fair, if needed

Answers: Freedom • Political liberty • Religious freedom • Economic opportunity • Escape persecution

Answers: American Indians • Native Americans

Answers: Africans • People from Africa

Answers: American Revolution • The (American) Revolutionary War • The American Revolutionary War • Revolutionary War • War for (American) Independence • War for Independence

Answers: High taxes • Taxation without representation • High taxes without representation • British soldiers stayed in Americans' houses (boarding, quartering) • British soldiers stayed in Americans' houses • They did not have self-government • Boston Massacre • Boston Tea Party (Tea Act) • Boston Tea Party • Stamp Act • Sugar Act • Townshend Acts • Intolerable (Coercive) Acts • Intolerable Acts

Answers: (Thomas) Jefferson • Thomas Jefferson • Jefferson

Answers: July 4, 1776

Answers: (Battle of) Bunker Hill • Battle of Bunker Hill • Declaration of Independence • Washington Crossing the Delaware (Battle of Trenton) • Washington Crossing the Delaware • Battle of Trenton • (Battle of) Saratoga • Battle of Saratoga • Valley Forge (Encampment) • Valley Forge • (Battle of) Yorktown (British surrender at Yorktown) • Battle of Yorktown • British surrender at Yorktown

Answers: New Hampshire • Massachusetts • Rhode Island • Connecticut • New York • New Jersey • Pennsylvania • Delaware • Maryland • Virginia • North Carolina • South Carolina • Georgia

Answers: (U.S.) Constitution • U.S. Constitution • Constitution

Answers: (James) Madison • James Madison • Madison • (Alexander) Hamilton • Alexander Hamilton • Hamilton • (John) Jay • John Jay • Jay • Publius

Answers: They helped people understand the (U.S.) Constitution. • They helped people understand the Constitution. • They supported passing the (U.S.) Constitution. • They supported passing the Constitution.

Answers: Founded the first free public libraries • First Postmaster General of the United States • Helped write the Declaration of Independence • Inventor • U.S. diplomat

Answers: "Father of Our Country" • Father of Our Country • First president of the United States • General of the Continental Army • President of the Constitutional Convention

Answers: Writer of the Declaration of Independence • Third president of the United States • Doubled the size of the United States (Louisiana Purchase) • Doubled the size of the United States • Louisiana Purchase • First Secretary of State • Founded the University of Virginia • Writer of the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom

Answers: "Father of the Constitution" • Father of the Constitution • Fourth president of the United States • President during the War of 1812 • One of the writers of the Federalist Papers

Answers: First Secretary of the Treasury • One of the writers of the Federalist Papers • Helped establish the First Bank of the United States • Aide to General George Washington • Member of the Continental Congress

Answers: Louisiana Territory • Louisiana

Answers: War of 1812 • Mexican-American War • Civil War • Spanish-American War

Answers: The Civil War • Civil War

Answers: (Battle of) Fort Sumter • Battle of Fort Sumter • Emancipation Proclamation • (Battle of) Vicksburg • Battle of Vicksburg • (Battle of) Gettysburg • Battle of Gettysburg • Sherman's March • (Surrender at) Appomattox • Surrender at Appomattox • (Battle of) Antietam/Sharpsburg • Battle of Antietam • Battle of Sharpsburg • Lincoln was assassinated.

Answers: Freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation) • Freed the slaves • Emancipation Proclamation • Saved (or preserved) the Union • Saved the Union • Preserved the Union • Led the United States during the Civil War • 16th president of the United States • Delivered the Gettysburg Address

Answers: Freed the slaves • Freed slaves in the Confederacy • Freed slaves in the Confederate states • Freed slaves in most Southern states

Answers: The Civil War • Civil War

Answers: 14th Amendment

Answers: After the Civil War • During Reconstruction • (With the) 15th Amendment • With the 15th Amendment • 15th Amendment • 1870

Answers: Susan B. Anthony • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Sojourner Truth • Harriet Tubman • Lucretia Mott • Lucy Stone

Answers: World War I • World War II • Korean War • Vietnam War • (Persian) Gulf War • Persian Gulf War • Gulf War

Answers: Because Germany attacked U.S. (civilian) ships • Because Germany attacked U.S. ships • To support the Allied Powers (England, France, Italy, and Russia) • To support the Allied Powers • To oppose the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria) • To oppose the Central Powers

Answers: 1920 • After World War I • (With the) 19th Amendment • With the 19th Amendment • 19th Amendment

Answers: Longest economic recession in modern history

Answers: The Great Crash (1929) • 1929 • Stock market crash of 1929

Answers: (Franklin) Roosevelt • Franklin Roosevelt • Roosevelt • FDR

Answers: (Bombing of) Pearl Harbor • Bombing of Pearl Harbor • Pearl Harbor • Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor • To support the Allied Powers (England, France, and Russia) • To support the Allied Powers • To oppose the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) • To oppose the Axis Powers

Answers: General during World War II • President at the end of (during) the Korean War • President during the Korean War • 34th president of the United States • Signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 (Created the Interstate System) • Created the Interstate System

Answers: Soviet Union • USSR • Russia

Answers: Communism • Nuclear war

Answers: To stop the spread of communism

Answers: To stop the spread of communism

Answers: Fought to end racial discrimination

Answers: Fought for civil rights • Worked for equality for all Americans • Worked to ensure that people would "not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character" • Worked to ensure that people would not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character

Answers: To force the Iraqi military from Kuwait

Answers: Terrorists attacked the United States • Terrorists took over two planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York City • Terrorists took over a plane and crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia • Terrorists took over a plane originally aimed at Washington, D.C., and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania

Answers: (Global) War on Terror • Global War on Terror • War on Terror • War in Afghanistan • War in Iraq

Answers: Apache • Blackfeet • Cayuga • Cherokee • Cheyenne • Chippewa • Choctaw • Creek • Crow • Hopi • Huron • Inupiat • Lakota • Mohawk • Mohegan • Navajo • Oneida • Onondaga • Pueblo • Seminole • Seneca • Shawnee • Sioux • Teton • Tuscarora

Answers: Light bulb • Automobile (cars, internal combustion engine) • Automobile • Cars • Skyscrapers • Airplane • Assembly line • Landing on the moon • Integrated circuit (IC) • Integrated circuit

Answers: Washington, D.C. • Washington D.C. • D.C.

Answers: New York (Harbor) • New York Harbor • New York • Liberty Island • New Jersey • near New York City • on the Hudson (River) • Hudson River

Answers: (Because there were) 13 original colonies • Because there were 13 original colonies • 13 original colonies • (Because the stripes) represent the original colonies • The stripes represent the original colonies

Answers: (Because there is) one star for each state • Because there is one star for each state • One star for each state • (Because) each star represents a state • Each star represents a state • (Because there are) 50 states • Because there are 50 states • 50 states

Answers: The Star-Spangled Banner

Answers: Out of many, one • We all become one

Answers: A holiday to celebrate U.S. independence (from Britain) • A holiday to celebrate U.S. independence • The country's birthday

Answers: New Year's Day • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day • Presidents Day (Washington's Birthday) • Presidents Day • Memorial Day • Juneteenth • Independence Day • Labor Day • Columbus Day • Veterans Day • Thanksgiving Day • Christmas Day

Answers: A holiday to honor soldiers who died in military service

Answers: A holiday to honor people in the (U.S.) military • A holiday to honor people in the military • A holiday to honor people who have served (in the U.S. military) • A holiday to honor people who have served in the military