1. Click here for the first question Questions for the Redesigned Citizenship Test* Quiz: The Constitution & U.S. Beginning Are you ready? Let’s begin! *These questions are on the Redesigned Citizenship Test that will be offered after October 1, 2008. For more information, see www.uscis.gov/newtestwww.uscis.gov/newtest

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3. Who was the first President? Yes! Click here Benjamin Franklin George Washington Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln

4. What is an amendment? Yes! Click here A change to the Constitution A declaration of independence A part of the Federalist Papers

5. There were 13 original states. Name three. Yes! Click here Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee Rhode Island, Virginia, Ohio New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire

6. What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for? Yes! Click here being a U.S. diplomat being the first President being the first Vice-President writing the Federalist Papers

7. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution? Yes! Click here The Declaration of Independence The Bill of Rights The Federalist Papers

8. What is the supreme law of the land? Yes! Click here The Constitution The Declaration of Independence The Bill of Rights The Federalist Papers

9. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? Yes! Click here Benjamin Franklin George Washington Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln

10. How many amendments does the Constitution have? Yes! Click here Three (3) Nine (9) Twenty-seven (27) Fifty (50)

11. When was the Constitution written? Yes! Click here 1776 1787 1792 1887

12. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted? Yes! Click here July 4, 1776 July 4, 1787 July 4,1976 July 4, 1987

13. Why did the colonists fight the British? Yes! Click here Because of slavery Because of civil rights Because of the right to bear arms Because of high taxes

14. What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence? Yes! Click here Freedom of speech and freedom of religion Life and liberty Freedom of assembly and freedom of the press Voting rights and civil rights

15. What is freedom of religion? Yes! Click here Every religion is part of the United States You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion You must go to a church Religion is taught in schools

16. Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived? Yes! Click here Pilgrims Colonists People from Africa Native Americans

17. Who is the “Father of Our Country”? Yes! Click here Benjamin Franklin George Washington Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln

18. What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves? Yes! Click here Pilgrims Colonists People from Africa Native Americans

19. The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers. Yes! Click here James Madison George Washington Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson

20. What did the Declaration of Independence do? Yes! Click here Declared our independence from Great Britain Freed the slaves Addressed voting rights Established the Bill of Rights

21. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words? Yes! Click here Freedom of Speech We the People In our country

22. What happened at the Constitutional Convention? Yes! Click here The Constitution was written Independence from Great Britain was declared 27 amendments were written The 13 colonies became the United States of America

23. What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment? Yes! Click here Freedom of speech The right to bear arms Civil rights Independence from Great Britain

24. What does the Constitution do? Yes! Click here Freed the slaves Sets up the government Declared our independence from Great Britain

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