Civics Practice Test 3: Colonial Era to the 1800s

The colonists came to America for many reasons. Name one.

1. To find a sea route to Asia
2. Religious freedom
3. To escape the American Revolution
4. To claim the Louisiana Territory

Name one reason why the Americans declared independence from Britain.

1. Taxation without representation
2. The Louisiana Purchase
3. The Mayflower Compact
4. The Emancipation Proclamation

Why were the Federalist Papers important?

1. They ended the Revolutionary War
2. They freed the slaves
3. They helped people understand the Constitution
4. They named the first president

Benjamin Franklin is famous for many things. Name one.

1. First president of the United States
2. Writer of “The Star-Spangled Banner”
3. First Chief Justice of the United States
4. First Postmaster General of the United States

George Washington is famous for many things. Name one.

1. Wrote the Declaration of Independence
2. “Father of Our Country”
3. Bought the Louisiana Territory
4. One of the writers of the Federalist Papers

James Madison is famous for many things. Name one.

1. First Secretary of the Treasury
2. Led the Union in the Civil War
3. “Father of the Constitution”
4. Founded the first free public libraries

Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.

1. World War I
2. The Korean War
3. The Revolutionary War
4. The Civil War

Abraham Lincoln is famous for many things. Name one.

1. Saved (or preserved) the Union
2. First president of the United States
3. Wrote the Constitution
4. Bought Alaska

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

1. Ended the Civil War
2. Freed slaves in the Confederate states
3. Gave women the right to vote
4. Gave formerly enslaved men the right to vote

Name one leader of the women’s rights movement in the 1800s.

1. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. Susan B. Anthony
3. Eleanor Roosevelt
4. Betsy Ross

Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

What group of people was taken and sold as slaves?

What war did the Americans fight to win independence from Britain?

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

What founding document was written in 1787?

The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.

What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?

Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.

What amendment says all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are U.S. citizens?