American History X

[H2Andy]

no cheating!

can you answer the following 30 questions taken from the U.S. Citizenship test?


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1. How many voting members does the Senate have?

2. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

3. The House of Representatives has how many voting members?

4. Name three US territories.

5. What did Susan B. Anthony do?

6. Name one thing for which Benjamin Franklin is known.

7. Name two rights that are only for US Citizens.

8. What does the Constitution do?

9. Name three Cabinet-level positions.

10. Name three of the 13 original states.

11. Where is the Grand Canyon?

12. What Cabinet-level agency advises the President on foreign policy?

13. When was the Constitution drafted?

14. How old must a person be to be eligible to become President?

15. Who becomes President if both the President and the Vice-President can no longer serve?

16. How many amendments does the Constitution have?

17. Who is the Senate Majority Leader?

18. Name one writer of the Federalist Papers.

19. What is the supreme law of the U.S.?

20. Who is the U.S. Attorney General?

21. What is the current Federal minimum wage?

22. What group of essays supported passage of the US Constitution?

23. Who confirms Supreme Court Justices?

24. Name one thing Abraham Lincoln is known for.

25. Who is Chief Justice of the United States?

26. Name five American Indian tribes in the U.S.

27. What territory did the U.S. buy from France in 1803?

28. What is the tallest mountain in the US?

29. Name three famous battles of the Revolutionary War.

30. Who is the Speaker of the House of Representatives?

 

[CheddarChick]

Nice post....23 out of 30.

 

[Walter]

1. How many voting members does the Senate have?

100 (2 from each state/commonwealth)

2. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

July 4, 1776 (Independence was actually approved on July 2 and a resolution was approved in June) John Adams thought we would celebrate July 2.

3. The House of Representatives has how many voting members?

435

4. Name three US territories.

Guam, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico

5. What did Susan B. Anthony do?

Work to get women the right to vote. If I'm not mistaken, she actually voted illegally and was arrested as a result.

6. Name one thing for which Benjamin Franklin is known.

He was one of the leading scientists of his day. He was a printer/writer. He was an inventor. He was the representative of the US to the French government during the revolution.

7. Name two rights that are only for US Citizens.

Voting and holding elective office.

8. What does the Constitution do?

It establishes the federal government and limits its powers.

9. Name three Cabinet-level positions.

Secretaries of State, Treasury, War (Defense since 1947 or was that 49?)

10. Name three of the 13 original states.

NH, MA, CT, RI, NY, PA, NJ, DE, MD, VA (400th anniversary this year), NC, SC, GA

11. Where is the Grand Canyon?

Around the Colorado River in Northern AZ.

12. What Cabinet-level agency advises the President on foreign policy?

State Department

13. When was the Constitution drafted?

Adopted in 1787

14. How old must a person be to be eligible to become President?

35

15. Who becomes President if both the President and the Vice-President can no longer serve?

Speaker of the House, but it wasn't always so.

16. How many amendments does the Constitution have?

27

17. Who is the Senate Majority Leader?

Got me on this one

18. Name one writer of the Federalist Papers.

Madison

19. What is the supreme law of the U.S.?

US Constitution

20. Who is the U.S. Attorney General?

I'm really weak on current events.

21. What is the current Federal minimum wage?

Too low.

22. What group of essays supported passage of the US Constitution?

Federalist Papers

23. Who confirms Supreme Court Justices?

Senate

24. Name one thing Abraham Lincoln is known for.

The only dictator in US history. While true, it would probably be marked wrong on a test. They are probably looking for "freed the slaves" which he didn't actually do.

25. Who is Chief Justice of the United States?

John Roberts

26. Name five American Indian tribes in the U.S.

Creek, Chicasaw, Cherokee

27. What territory did the U.S. buy from France in 1803?

LA (not the city in CA)

28. What is the tallest mountain in the US?

McKinley

29. Name three famous battles of the Revolutionary War.

Saratoga, Bunker Hill (actually fought on Breed's Hill) Trenton, Yorktown, although the last two weren't much in the way of "battles."

30. Who is the Speaker of the House of Representatives?

Nancy Pelosi

 

[RonDawg]

And I read this thread thinking it would be a discussion about a certain Edward Norton movie...

 

[H2Andy]

nice, Walter ...

we do disagree on Abraham Lincoln ... his war powers paled in comparison to Woodwrow Wilson's

Also, Lincoln did free the overwhelming majority of slaves -- those in Confederate territory -- through his Emancipation Proclamation, an executive order he signed in 1863.

as the Union Army took and held southern territories, millions of slaves were freed under the Emancipation Proclamation

however, slaves in border states (mostly in Missouri and Kentucky) were not freed until the 13th Amendment was ratified by Congress in 1865, after Lincoln's death

17. Who is the Senate Majority Leader?

Harry Reid, D-Nev.

20. Who is the U.S. Attorney General?

Alberto Gonzales

21. What is the current Federal minimum wage?

$5.15

 

[Mossman]

Also DC isn't considered a territory. It's a federally-controlled district, listed as a state on this website:

http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/State_and_Territories.shtml

 

[covediver]

This quiz reminds me of an ungraded "diagnostic" quiz I gave on the first day of each course I taught on American Government at a number of colleges. I would use questions from the practice citizenship exam on the theory that it defined the minimum level of accpetable knowledge of American political culture (widely shared system of beliefs about the nature and role of government). Most of my students were native born U.S. citizens. A surprising number could not pass the quiz. Some of them were indignant when I suggested they might want to suspend their citizenship until the end of the class. Ironically, the highest score in one class came from a student from Sweden on a tennis scholarship.

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

26. Name five American Indian tribes in the U.S.

Creek, Chicasaw, Cherokee, Chippewa, Lakota, Sioux, Blackfoot... (Shall I continue?)

 

[MartianBeerPig]

Well, I'm not American, but I thought I'd give it a go and I didn't cheat. So waddayarekkin? Do I qualify???

1 Don't know
2 A couple of years after 1776
3 Don't know
4 Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa
5 Who?
6 Kites and lightening
7 Standing for president and ....
8 Underlying law for all others
9 Dunno
10 New York, Rhode Island, Boston
11 Don't know the state, but west and in the desert
12 Don't know
13 Around 1776
14 18
15 Don't know
16 Don't know
17 Don't know
18 Don't know
19 The US Constitution
20 Dunno
21 Dunno
22 Don't know
23 President (guess)
24 Being assasinated (okay okay, constitutional amendment to free slaves)
25 Don't know
26 Sioux, Hopi, Mohicans, Nez Perce, Seminole
27 Louisana
28 Some mountain in Alaska, the name of which escapes
29 Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, ???
30 Don't know'

 

[H2Andy]

that's excellent, MartianBeerPig... you'd probably qualify as an Ambassador somewhere



and may i say your name rocks