Can you pass the U.S. Citizenship Test?

As Americans, we think we have a pretty firm grasp on what it means to be a citizen. We thought it would be fun to test your knowledge on the U.S. citizenship test to challenge how much you know about your country.

Question: What is the supreme law of the land?

Answer: The Constitution

Question: What does the Constitution do?

Answer: Sets up the government, defines the government, and protects basic rights of Americans

Question: What are the first three words of the Constitution?

Answer: We the People

Question: What is an amendment?

Answer: a change (to the Constitution) or an addition (to the Constitution)

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

Answer: The Bill of Rights

Question: What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?

Answers:

• speech
• religion
• assembly
• press
• petition the government

Question: How many amendments does the Constitution have?

Answer: twenty-seven

Question: What are at least two rights in the Declaration of Independence?

Answer:

• life
• liberty
• pursuit of happiness

Question: What is freedom of religion?

Answer: You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion.

Question: What is the economic system in the United States?

Answers:

• capitalist economy
• market economy

Question: Name one branch or part of the government.

Answers:

• Congress
• legislative
• President
• executive
• the courts
• judicial

Question: What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?

Answer:

• checks and balances
• separation of powers

Question: Who is in charge of the executive branch?

Answer: The President

Question: Who makes federal laws?

Answers:

• Congress
• Senate and House of Representatives
• U.S. or national legislature

Question: How many U.S. Senators are there?

Answer: one hundred

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

Answer: six

Question: The House of Representatives has how many voting members?

Answer: four hundred thirty-five

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

Answer: two

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

Answer: The Speaker of the House

Question: How many justices are on the Supreme Court

Answer: nine

Question: There were 13 original states. Name three.

Answers:

• New Hampshire
• Massachusetts
• Rhode Island
• Connecticut
• New York
• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania
• Delaware
• Maryland
• Virginia
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Georgia

Question: Name one of the two longest rivers in the United States.

Answers:

• Missouri River
• Mississippi River

Question: Name one U.S. territory.

Answers:

• Puerto Rico
• U.S. Virgin Islands
• American Samoa
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Guam

Question: Name one state that borders Canada.

Answers:

• Maine
• New Hampshire
• Vermont
• New York
• Pennsylvania
• Ohio
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• North Dakota
• Montana
• Idaho
• Washington
• Alaska