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SCS Civics Test

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52 questions
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What is the supreme law of the land?

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The idea of self-government is in the first 3 words of the Constitution. What are these words?

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What is an amendment?

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What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?

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What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?

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What is freedom of religion?

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Which of the following is a branch of the government?

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What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?

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Who is in charge of the executive branch?

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Who makes federal laws?

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What are the two parts of Congress?

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How many U.S. Senators are there?

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We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?

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The House of Representatives has how many voting members?

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Why do some states have more Representatives than others?

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We elect a President for how many years?

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If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President?

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Who is Commander in Chief of the military?

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Who signs bills to become laws?

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What are the two major political parties in the United States?

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Which of the following is a member of the President’s cabinet?

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What does the judicial branch do?

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How many justices are on the Supreme Court?

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Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

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What is the capital of Tennessee?

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What does the Constitution do?

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How many amendments does the constitution have?

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Which of the following is a current US Senator for Tennessee?

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We elect a U.S. Representative for how many years?

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What is one reason colonists came to America?

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What group of people was taken to American and sold as slaves?

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Why did the colonists fight the British?

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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

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When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

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When was the Constitution written?

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What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?

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Who was the first President?

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

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What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

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What happened at the Constitutional Convention?

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The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Which of the following was one of the writers?

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Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

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Which of the following was a war fought by the United States in the 1900s?

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What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?

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What is the capital of the United States?

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When do we celebrate Independence Day?

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What ocean is on the West Coast of the U.S.?

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Name one U.S. territory.

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Where is the Statue of Liberty?

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Why does the flag have 13 stripes?

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What is the name of the national anthem?

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What did Susan B. Anthony do?