Study guide for civics test
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| The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words? | show 🗑
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| show | to coin money, to regulate commerce, to declare war, to raise and maintain armed forces, and to establish a Post Office
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| show | Population
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| show | Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
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| What document announced our independence from Great Britain | show 🗑
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| show | Capitalism
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| What is the “rule of law”? | show 🗑
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| show | 1787
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| show | 27
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| show | Legislative, Executive, Judicial
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| What are the two parts of the US Congress? | show 🗑
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| show | 100
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| show | 6
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| show | Vice President
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| show | Advises the President
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| show | New York
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| Name one issue that did NOT lead to the Civil War. | show 🗑
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| show | Valentine's Day
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| show | 4
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| In what month do we vote for President? | show 🗑
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| show | Mike Pence
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| show | The President
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| What is the highest court in the United States? | show 🗑
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| How many justices are on the Supreme Court? | show 🗑
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| show | Pacific
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| show | Guam
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| show | The Bill of Rights
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| What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did? | show 🗑
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| What is the political party of the President now? | show 🗑
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| show | Be loyal to the US, give up loyalty to other countries, serve in the US military
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| How old do citizens have to be to vote for President? | show 🗑
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| show | Civil War
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| show | April 15
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| show | George Washington
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| What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803? | show 🗑
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| Identify a war that was fought by the United States in the 1800s | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| show | 1776
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| Which state was not one of the original 13 states? | show 🗑
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| show | President
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| show | George Washington
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| What is freedom of religion? | show 🗑
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| show | Congress
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| What is the name of the current President? | show 🗑
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| show | Republicans and Democrats
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| What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States? | show 🗑
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| Who is the Chief Justice of the United States now? | show 🗑
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| What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States? | show 🗑
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| show | American Indians
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| Who is the charge of the executive branch? | show 🗑
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| show | Authored Poor Richard’s Almanac
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| show | Freed the slaves
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| What did Susan B. Anthony do? | show 🗑
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| Which was not fought by the United States in the 1900s? | show 🗑
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| Who was President during World War I? | show 🗑
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| Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II? | show 🗑
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| show | Japan, Germany, & Italy
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| show | Atomic warfare
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| What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is (was) NOT an American Indian tribe in the United States? | show 🗑
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| show | Missouri & Mississippi
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| show | Utah
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| show | Oklahoma
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| What is the capital of the United States? | show 🗑
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| How many stripes does the American Flag have? | show 🗑
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| How many stars does the American Flag have? | show 🗑
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| show | July 4
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| What does the Constitution do? | show 🗑
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| Under the Constitution, some powers belong to the sates. What is one power of the states? | show 🗑
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| show | Freedom
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| What do the flag’s stripes represent? | show 🗑
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| show | Speech
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| show | Checks and balances
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| Who is one of Alabama’s US Senators now? | show 🗑
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| The novel To Kill a Mockingbird was written by what Alabamian? | show 🗑
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| What African-American woman refused to give up her seat and thereby started the Montgomery Bus Boycott? | show 🗑
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| What blind Alabamian, later to become famous, was taught by Anne Sullivan? | show 🗑
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| What is the capital of Alabama? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote the words to Alabama’s state song? | show 🗑
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| show | Yellowhammer State
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| What is Alabama’s state flower? | show 🗑
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| show | George Washington Carver
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| What is the popular name of a group of African-American military pilots who fought in World War II? Officially, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the US Army Air Forces. | show 🗑
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| Which Shawnee leader came to Alabama to convince the Creek tribes to join the British against the Americans? | show 🗑
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| show | Georgia
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| show | Mobile
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| show | George Wallace
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| Who is the Governor of Alabama now? | show 🗑
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| What is one landmark NOT found in Alabama? | show 🗑
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| show | Loxcil B. Tuck
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| show | Dennis Reno
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| show | Dr. Shelly Mize
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| Who is fire chief of Tarrant? | show 🗑
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| show | BL Harbert
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| show | 1918
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| show | George Washington Thomason
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| show | Jimmy Bryant
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| Tarrant citizen who was a member of the US House of Representatives? | show 🗑
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| Who is the parks director of Tarrant? | show 🗑
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