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2008 test · 100 questions

Famous Names Drill — 2008 Civics Test (Free Practice)

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  1. Question 58

    What is one reason colonists came to America?

    • • freedom
    • • political liberty
    • • religious freedom
    • • economic opportunity
    • • practice their religion
    • • escape persecution

  2. Question 59

    Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

    • • American Indians
    • • Native Americans

  3. Question 61

    Why did the colonists fight the British?

    • • because of high taxes (taxation without representation)
    • • because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering)
    • • because they didn’t have self-government

  4. Question 62

    Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

    • • (Thomas) Jefferson

  5. Question 68

    What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?

    • • U.S. diplomat
    • • oldest member of the Constitutional Convention
    • • first Postmaster General of the United States
    • • writer of “Poor Richard’s Almanac”
    • • started the first free libraries

  6. Question 69

    Who is the “Father of Our Country”?

    • • (George) Washington

  7. Question 70★ 65/20

    Who was the first President?

    • • (George) Washington

  8. Question 75★ 65/20

    What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?

    • • freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation)
    • • saved (or preserved) the Union
    • • led the United States during the Civil War

  9. Question 77

    What did Susan B. Anthony do?

    • • fought for women’s rights
    • • fought for civil rights

  10. Question 79

    Who was President during World War I?

    • • (Woodrow) Wilson

  11. Question 80

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

    • • (Franklin) Roosevelt

  12. Question 85★ 65/20

    What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?

    • • fought for civil rights
    • • worked for equality for all Americans

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