2008 civics test · category
American History
30 of the 100 questions on the 2008 civics test come from this section, including 4 of the 20 designated 65/20 questions.
Colonial Period and Independence
13 questions
- 58 What is one reason colonists came to America?
- 59 Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
- 60 What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
- 61 Why did the colonists fight the British?
- 62 Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
- 63 When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
- 64 There were 13 original states. Name three.
- 65 What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
- 66 When was the Constitution written?
- 67 The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
- 68 What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?
- 69 Who is the "Father of Our Country"?
- 70 Who was the first President? ★ 65/20 question
1800s
7 questions
- 71 What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
- 72 Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.
- 73 Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.
- 74 Name one problem that led to the Civil War.
- 75 What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did? ★ 65/20 question
- 76 What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
- 77 What did Susan B. Anthony do?
Recent American History
10 questions
- 78 Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s. ★ 65/20 question
- 79 Who was President during World War I?
- 80 Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?
- 81 Who did the United States fight in World War II?
- 82 Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?
- 83 During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?
- 84 What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
- 85 What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do? ★ 65/20 question
- 86 What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States?
- 87 Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.
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