U.S. Citizenship Questions

9. What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?

9. What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?

Life and liberty

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

6

20. Who is one of your state’s U.S. Senators now?*

Tina Smith

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

435

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

2

23. Name your U.S. Representative.

Brad Finstad

31. If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President?

Speaker of house

32. Who is the Commander in Chief of the military?

President

36. What are two Cabinet-level positions?

▪ Secretary of Agriculture

▪ Secretary of Commerce

▪ Secretary of Defense

▪ Secretary of Education

▪ Secretary of Energy

▪ Secretary of Health and Human Services

▪ Secretary of Homeland Security

▪ Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

▪ Secretary of the Interior

▪ Secretary of Labor

▪ Secretary of State

▪ Secretary of Transportation

▪ Secretary of the Treasury

▪ Secretary of Veterans Affairs

▪ Attorney General

▪ Vice President

39. How many justices are on the Supreme Court?

9

40. Who is the Chief Justice of the United States now?

John Roberts

47. What is the name of the Speaker of the House of Representatives now?

• Mike Johnson

• Johnson

• James Michael Johnson (birth name)

• (During a grace period ending December 1, 2023) Patrick McHenry

51. What are two rights of everyone living in the United States?

Freedom of speech and right to bear arms

56. When is the last day you can send in federal income tax forms?*

April 15th

58. What is one reason colonists came to America?

▪ freedom

▪ political liberty

▪ religious freedom

▪ economic opportunity

▪ practice their religion

▪ escape persecution

62. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Thomas Jefferson

63. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

July 4th, 1776

66. When was the Constitution written?

1787

68. What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?

Started first free libraries

78. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s

WWI

WWII

Korean War

Vietnam War

Persian Gulf War

79. Who was President during World War I?

Woodrow Wilson

80. Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?

FDR

81. Who did the United States fight in World War II?

Japan, Germany, Italy

82. Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?

WWII

87. Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.

▪ Cherokee ▪ Navajo ▪ Sioux ▪ Chippewa ▪ Choctaw ▪ Pueblo ▪ Apache ▪ Iroquois ▪ Creek ▪ Blackfeet ▪ Seminole ▪ Cheyenne ▪ Arawak ▪ Shawnee ▪ Mohegan ▪ Huron ▪ Oneida ▪ Lakota ▪ Crow ▪ Teton ▪ Hopi ▪ Inuit

100. Name two national U.S. holidays.

▪ New Year’s Day ▪ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day ▪ Presidents’ Day ▪ Memorial Day ▪ Independence Day ▪ Labor Day ▪ Columbus Day ▪ Veterans Day ▪ Thanksgiving ▪ Christmas