Set 3

Question 1

61. Why did the colonists fight the British?

Answer 1

▪ because of high taxes (taxation without representation)
▪ because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering)
▪ because they didn’t have self-government

Question 2

62. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 2

▪ (Thomas) Jefferson

Question 3

63. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

Answer 3

▪ July 4, 1776

Question 4

64. There were 13 original states. Name three.

Answer 4

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

Question 5

65. What happened at the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

66. When was the Constitution written?

Answer 6

▪ 1787

Question 7

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

Answer 7

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

Question 8

68. What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?

Answer 8

▪ U.S. diplomat
▪ oldest member of the Constitutional Convention
▪ first Postmaster General of the United States
▪ writer of “Poor Richard’s Almanac”
▪ started the first free libraries

Question 9

69. Who is the “Father of Our Country”?

Answer 9

▪ (George) Washington

Question 10

70. Who was the first President?*

Answer 10

▪ (George) Washington

Question 11

B: 1800s

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

Answer 11

▪ the Louisiana Territory
▪ Louisiana

Question 12

72. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.

Answer 12

▪ War of 1812
▪ Mexican-American War
▪ Civil War
▪ Spanish-American War

Question 13

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

Answer 13

▪ the Civil War
▪ the War between the States

Question 14

74. Name one problem that led to the Civil War.

Answer 14

▪ slavery
▪ economic reasons
▪ states’ rights

Question 15

75. What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?*

Answer 15

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

Question 16

76. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Answer 16

▪ freed the slaves
▪ freed slaves in the Confederacy
▪ freed slaves in the Confederate states
▪ freed slaves in most Southern states

Question 17

77. What did Susan B. Anthony do?

Answer 17

▪ fought for women’s rights
▪ fought for civil rights

Question 18

C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

78. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.*

Answer 18

▪ World War I
▪ World War II
▪ Korean War
▪ Vietnam War
▪ (Persian) Gulf War

Question 19

79. Who was President during World War I?

Answer 19

▪ (Woodrow) Wilson

Question 20

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

Answer 20

▪ (Franklin) Roosevelt

Question 21

81. Who did the United States fight in World War II?

Answer 21

Japan, Germany, and Italy

Question 22

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

Answer 22

▪ World War II

Question 23

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

Answer 23

▪ Communism

Question 24

84. What movement tried to end racial discrimination?

Answer 24

civil rights (movement)

Question 25

85. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?*

Answer 25

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

Question 26

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

Answer 26

▪ Terrorists attacked the United States

Question 27

87. Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.

Answer 27

[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

Question 28

INTEGRATED CIVICS A: Geography 88. Name one of the two longest rivers in the United States.

Answer 28

▪ Missouri (River) ▪ Mississippi (River)

Question 29

89. What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?

Answer 29

▪ Pacific (Ocean)

Question 30

90. What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States?

Answer 30

▪ Atlantic (Ocean)