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Interesting: U.S. Citizenship Test
I ran across a magazine article that printed ten questions from the United Stated Citizenship exam. American GC'ers, if you had to answer these questions could you get them all correct?
I'll post the answers tonight. 1. What do the stripes on the flag represent? 2. What is the introduction to the Constitution called? 3. How many amendments are there to the Constitution? 4. What are the names of the 13 original states? 5. Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death?" 6. Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independance? 7. What year was the Constitution written? 8. What kind of government does the United States have? 9. How many representatives are in congress? 10. How many Supreme Court justices are there? |
1) 13 original colonies
2) the Preamble 3) 26 4) Virginia Massachusetts New York Maryland Rhode Island Connecticut Delaware New Hampshire North Carolina South Carolina New Jersey Pennsylvania Georgia 5) Patrick Henry 6) Thomas Jefferson 7) 1776 8) no clue.. 9) In Congress, there are 435 reps and 100 senators. 10) 9 |
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Democracy or representative democracy
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#7: The Constitution was written in 1789 (I believe). The Declaration of Independence was written in 1776.
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You could be right... maybe it was written in 1787 and ratified in 1789? 1789 is what's sticking in my head...
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#8 is actually a republic, not a democracy (theyre different)
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YES! What you said
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1787...
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I only knew the answer to # 8 :eek: Blah!!
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THE ANSWERS...
1. What do the stripes on the flag represent?
They represent the thirteen original states 2. What is the introduction to the Constitution called? The Preamble 3. How many amendments are there to the Constitution? 27 4. What are the names of the 13 original states? CT, NH, NY, NJ, MA, PA, DE, VA, NC, SC, GA, RI, MD 5. Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death?" Patrick Henry 6. Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independance? Thomas Jefferson 7. What year was the Constitution written? 1787 8. What kind of government does the United States have? Republican (America is a republic, not a democracy) note: I did not add that, it was in the answer key 9. How many representatives are in congress? 435 10. How many Supreme Court justices are there? Nine |
I knew it. I was a political science major. :D
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