America: The Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Country?
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Now, with America: The Quiz, you can find out! Inside you will find the 100 test prep questions given to applicants by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Get quizzed on everything from the structure of American government to the basics of American history and civics.
Questions include:
- What is an amendment?
- What is “the rule of law”?
- What does the president’s cabinet do?
- Name three of the original 13 states
- Name one state that borders Canada
- Why does the flag have 50 stars?
Although most readers will assume they could pass this test with flying colors, there are a surprising number of questions that require more advanced knowledge. For example: Describe one of the four Constitutional amendments concerning the right to vote. Or which executive is next in line of succession if the President and Vice President cannot serve?
Complete with illustrations and historic photographs, America: The Quiz is the handy little guidebook to the nation that you thought you knew.
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America - Fall River Press
Introduction
Becoming an American citizen is a rite of passage that millions of people have undertaken during the country’s existence. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, citizenship tests were usually administered orally by judges in courtrooms. Starting in 1906, the federal Bureau of Naturalization began to standardize and federalize a process that up until then had been handled by the courts at the local level in ways that varied widely from one jurisdiction to the next.
The Bureau also began a program to educate prospective citizens about the United States’ civics and history. As a result of that process, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Department now provides a list of 100 questions that must be studied by all citizenship applicants for the civics portion of the test. A United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officer asks the applicant ten questions from that list. The applicant must answer six questions correctly in order to pass.
Between October 1, 2009 and August 31, 2014, USCIS officers administered nearly 3.7 million tests. The overall pass rate for the civics and English tests was 91 percent as of August 2014. According to USA Today, in 2012 the applicant pass rate for the civics test was 93 percent. However, a telephone poll by the Center for the Study of the American Dream at Xavier University in Cincinnati revealed that just 65 percent of native-born Americans were able to provide six out of ten correct answers to questions from the same test.
How many questions do you think you will be able to answer correctly? Take the test to find out!
American Government
In the United States, the government gets its power to govern from the people. We have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Citizens in the United States shape their government and its policies, so they must learn about important public issues and get involved in their communities. Learning about American government helps you understand your rights and responsibilities and allows you to fully participate in the American political process. The Founders of this country decided that the United States should be a representative democracy. They wanted a nation ruled by laws, not by men. In a representative democracy, the people choose officials to make laws and represent their views and concerns in government. The following section will help you understand the principles of American democracy, the U.S. system of government, and the important rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship.
PRINCIPLES of AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Question 1
What is the supreme law of the land?
Answer 1
• The Constitution
The Founding Fathers of the United States wrote the Constitution in 1787. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
The U.S. Constitution has lasted longer than any other country’s constitution. It establishes the basic principles of the United States government. The Constitution establishes a system of government called representative democracy.
In a representative democracy, citizens choose representatives to make the laws. U.S. citizens also choose a president to lead the executive branch of government. The Constitution lists fundamental rights for all citizens and other people living in the United States. Laws made in the United States must follow the Constitution.
Question 2
What does the Constitution do?
Answer 2
• sets up the government
• defines the government
• protects basic rights of Americans
The Constitution of the United States divides government power between the national government and state governments. The name for this division of power is federalism.
Federalism is an important idea in the Constitution. We call the Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution the Framers
of the Constitution. The Framers wanted to limit the powers of the government, so they separated the powers into three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. The Constitution explains the power of each branch. The Constitution also includes changes and additions, called amendments.
The first ten amendments are called the Bill of Rights.
The Bill of Rights established the individual rights and liberties of all Americans.
Question 3
The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?
Answer 3
• We the People
The Constitution says:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
With the words We the People,
the Constitution states that the people set up the government. The government works for the people and protects the rights of people. In the United States, the power to govern comes from the people, who are the highest power. This is called popular sovereignty.
The people elect representatives to make laws.
Question 4
What is an amendment?
Answer 4
• a change (to the Constitution)
• an addition (to the Constitution)
An amendment is a change or addition to the Constitution. The Framers