CIVIC LITERACY ACTUAL TEST PAPER FULL QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS GRADED APLUS

CIVIC LITERACY ACTUAL TEST PAPER
FULL QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
ANSWERS GRADED APLUS

●● What does the Constitution do?
Answer: -sets up the government
-defines the government
-protects basic rights of Americans


●● The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the
Constitution. What are these words?
Answer: We the People


●● What is an amendment?
Answer: -a change (to the Constitution)
-an addition (to the Constitution)


●● What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
Answer: the Bill of Rights


●● What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
Answer: -speech

,-religion
-assembly
-press
-petition the government


●● How many amendments does the Constitution have?
Answer: twenty-seven


●● What did the Declaration of Independence do?
Answer: -announced our independence (from Great Britain)
-declared our independence (from Great Britain)
-said that the United States is free (from Great Britain)


●● What are two rights in the
Declaration of Independence?
Answer: -life
-liberty
-pursuit of
happiness


●● What is freedom of religion?
Answer: You can practice

,any religion, or
not practice a
religion.


●● What is the economic system
in the United States?
Answer: -capitalist economy
-market economy


●● What is the "rule of law"?
Answer: -Everyone must follow the law.
-Leaders must obey the law.
-Government must obey the law.
-No one is above the law.


●● Name one branch or part of
the government.
Answer: -Congress
-legislative
-President
-executive
-the courts

, -judicial


●● What stops one branch of
government from becoming
too powerful?
Answer: -checks and
balances
-separation
of powers


●● Who is in charge of the
executive branch?
Answer: the President


●● Who makes federal laws?
Answer: -Congress
-Senate and House
(of Representatives)
-(U.S. or national)
legislature


●● What are the two parts of the