AZ CIVICS TEST PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔reason colonists came to America - ✔✔freedom, political liberty, religious freedom,
economic opportunity, practice their religion, escape persecution
✔✔who lived in America before the Europeans arrived - ✔✔American Indians, Native
Americans
✔✔group of people taken to America and sold as slaves - ✔✔Africans, people from
Africa
✔✔reason colonists fought 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
✔✔who wrote the Declaration of Independence - ✔✔(Thomas) Jefferson
✔✔when was the Declaration of Independence adopted - ✔✔July 4, 1776
✔✔13 original states - ✔✔New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia
✔✔what happened at the Constitutional Convention - ✔✔The Constitution was written.
The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.
✔✔when was the Constitution written - ✔✔1787
✔✔Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution - ✔✔(James)
Madison, (Alexander) Hamilton, (John) Jay, Publius
✔✔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
✔✔Father of Our Country - ✔✔(George) Washington
✔✔first President - ✔✔(George) Washington
✔✔territory bought from France in 1803 - ✔✔the Louisiana Territory, Louisiana
✔✔one war fought by the United States in the 1800s - ✔✔War of 1812, Mexican-
American War, Civil War, Spanish-American War
, ✔✔U.S. war between the North and the South - ✔✔the Civil War, the War between the
States
✔✔one problem that led to the Civil War - ✔✔slavery, economic reasons, states' rights
✔✔important thing Abraham Lincoln did - ✔✔freed the slaves (Emancipation
Proclamation), saved (or preserved) the Union, led the United States during the Civil
War
✔✔what did the Emancipation Proclamation do - ✔✔freed the slaves, freed slaves in
the Confederacy, freed slaves in the Confederate states, freed slaves in most Southern
states
✔✔what did Susan B. Anthony do - ✔✔fought for women's rights, fought for civil rights
✔✔World War I - ✔✔A war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
✔✔World War II - ✔✔A war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
✔✔Korean War - ✔✔A war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
✔✔Vietnam War - ✔✔A war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
✔✔(Persian) Gulf War - ✔✔A war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
✔✔Woodrow Wilson - ✔✔President during World War I.
✔✔Franklin Roosevelt - ✔✔President during the Great Depression and World War II.
✔✔Japan, Germany, and Italy - ✔✔Countries the United States fought in World War II.
✔✔Eisenhower - ✔✔Before he was President, he was a general in World War II.
✔✔Communism - ✔✔The main concern of the United States during the Cold War.
✔✔civil rights (movement) - ✔✔A movement that tried to end racial discrimination.
✔✔Martin Luther King, Jr. - ✔✔Fought for civil rights and worked for equality for all
Americans.
✔✔September 11, 2001 - ✔✔Date when terrorists attacked the United States.
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔reason colonists came to America - ✔✔freedom, political liberty, religious freedom,
economic opportunity, practice their religion, escape persecution
✔✔who lived in America before the Europeans arrived - ✔✔American Indians, Native
Americans
✔✔group of people taken to America and sold as slaves - ✔✔Africans, people from
Africa
✔✔reason colonists fought 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
✔✔who wrote the Declaration of Independence - ✔✔(Thomas) Jefferson
✔✔when was the Declaration of Independence adopted - ✔✔July 4, 1776
✔✔13 original states - ✔✔New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia
✔✔what happened at the Constitutional Convention - ✔✔The Constitution was written.
The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.
✔✔when was the Constitution written - ✔✔1787
✔✔Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution - ✔✔(James)
Madison, (Alexander) Hamilton, (John) Jay, Publius
✔✔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
✔✔Father of Our Country - ✔✔(George) Washington
✔✔first President - ✔✔(George) Washington
✔✔territory bought from France in 1803 - ✔✔the Louisiana Territory, Louisiana
✔✔one war fought by the United States in the 1800s - ✔✔War of 1812, Mexican-
American War, Civil War, Spanish-American War
, ✔✔U.S. war between the North and the South - ✔✔the Civil War, the War between the
States
✔✔one problem that led to the Civil War - ✔✔slavery, economic reasons, states' rights
✔✔important thing Abraham Lincoln did - ✔✔freed the slaves (Emancipation
Proclamation), saved (or preserved) the Union, led the United States during the Civil
War
✔✔what did the Emancipation Proclamation do - ✔✔freed the slaves, freed slaves in
the Confederacy, freed slaves in the Confederate states, freed slaves in most Southern
states
✔✔what did Susan B. Anthony do - ✔✔fought for women's rights, fought for civil rights
✔✔World War I - ✔✔A war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
✔✔World War II - ✔✔A war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
✔✔Korean War - ✔✔A war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
✔✔Vietnam War - ✔✔A war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
✔✔(Persian) Gulf War - ✔✔A war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
✔✔Woodrow Wilson - ✔✔President during World War I.
✔✔Franklin Roosevelt - ✔✔President during the Great Depression and World War II.
✔✔Japan, Germany, and Italy - ✔✔Countries the United States fought in World War II.
✔✔Eisenhower - ✔✔Before he was President, he was a general in World War II.
✔✔Communism - ✔✔The main concern of the United States during the Cold War.
✔✔civil rights (movement) - ✔✔A movement that tried to end racial discrimination.
✔✔Martin Luther King, Jr. - ✔✔Fought for civil rights and worked for equality for all
Americans.
✔✔September 11, 2001 - ✔✔Date when terrorists attacked the United States.
