CIVICS MID-YEAR ASSESSMENT 2025-2026
ACTUAL EXAM WELL VERIFIED ALL
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS || ALREADY GRADED A++
Eighth Amendment
- CORRECT ANSWERS - an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that provides freedom
from excessive bail or fines and freedom from cruel or unusual punishment for a person
accused of a crime
Fifth Amendment
- CORRECT ANSWERS - an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that provides
protections to a person accused of a crime, including the right of due process
Fourth Amendment
- CORRECT ANSWERS - an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that provides freedom
from unreasonable searches and seizures; this amendment also states that warrants must only
be issued with probable cause (evidence that gives someone a reason to think that a crime has
been or is being committed)
monarchy
- CORRECT ANSWERS - a form of government headed by a king or queen who inherits
the position, rules for life, and holds power that can range anywhere between limited to
absolute
Petition
- CORRECT ANSWERS - a formal written request made to a person in authority, a
leader, and/or an elected official
rule of law
- CORRECT ANSWERS - the idea that those who govern must follow the laws; no one is
above the law
,Sixth Amendment
- CORRECT ANSWERS - an amendment to the Constitution that provides protections
and rights to a person accused of a crime, including the right to a speedy trial with an
impartial jury and the right to counsel (a lawyer)
Fourteenth Amendment
- CORRECT ANSWERS - an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that defines
citizenship, grants citizenship to former slaves and defines voters as males at least 21 years of
age; it also includes the Equal Protection Clause
Alien
- CORRECT ANSWERS - any person not a citizen or national of a country
Citizenship
- CORRECT ANSWERS - being a legal member of a state and/or country
Immigrant
- CORRECT ANSWERS - a person who comes to a country to live there permanently
legal permanent resident
- CORRECT ANSWERS - someone who is legally and permanently living in the U.S.,
but not a citizen
naturalization
- CORRECT ANSWERS - the process by which an immigrant becomes a citizen
resident
- CORRECT ANSWERS - someone who lives in a place for a minimum period of time
Voting Rights Act of 1965
, - CORRECT ANSWERS - a federal law that banned race discrimination in voting
practices by federal, state, and local governments
Obligation
- CORRECT ANSWERS - a requirement, something a person has to do
petitioning the government - CORRECT ANSWERS - the right to ask the government to
solve a problem or to express an opinion about how the government is being run
responsibility - CORRECT ANSWERS - something a person should do
selective service - CORRECT ANSWERS - a system by which men ages 18 through 25
register with the U.S. government for military service
Founding Fathers - CORRECT ANSWERS - representatives from each of the 13 colonies
who participated in writing the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution
individual liberty - CORRECT ANSWERS - a person's ability to be free and independent
natural law - CORRECT ANSWERS - laws passed by government to protect natural
rights
social contract - CORRECT ANSWERS - an implied agreement among the people of an
organized society that defines the rights, duties, and limitations of the governed and the
government
Common Sense - CORRECT ANSWERS - a pamphlet published by Thomas Paine in
1776 to convince the American colonists to support becoming independent from England
English Bill of Rights - CORRECT ANSWERS - a government document that expanded
the powers of the English Parliament and expanded the rights of the people, as well as further
limited the rights of the king; written by the members of the English Parliament in 1689
ACTUAL EXAM WELL VERIFIED ALL
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS || ALREADY GRADED A++
Eighth Amendment
- CORRECT ANSWERS - an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that provides freedom
from excessive bail or fines and freedom from cruel or unusual punishment for a person
accused of a crime
Fifth Amendment
- CORRECT ANSWERS - an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that provides
protections to a person accused of a crime, including the right of due process
Fourth Amendment
- CORRECT ANSWERS - an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that provides freedom
from unreasonable searches and seizures; this amendment also states that warrants must only
be issued with probable cause (evidence that gives someone a reason to think that a crime has
been or is being committed)
monarchy
- CORRECT ANSWERS - a form of government headed by a king or queen who inherits
the position, rules for life, and holds power that can range anywhere between limited to
absolute
Petition
- CORRECT ANSWERS - a formal written request made to a person in authority, a
leader, and/or an elected official
rule of law
- CORRECT ANSWERS - the idea that those who govern must follow the laws; no one is
above the law
,Sixth Amendment
- CORRECT ANSWERS - an amendment to the Constitution that provides protections
and rights to a person accused of a crime, including the right to a speedy trial with an
impartial jury and the right to counsel (a lawyer)
Fourteenth Amendment
- CORRECT ANSWERS - an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that defines
citizenship, grants citizenship to former slaves and defines voters as males at least 21 years of
age; it also includes the Equal Protection Clause
Alien
- CORRECT ANSWERS - any person not a citizen or national of a country
Citizenship
- CORRECT ANSWERS - being a legal member of a state and/or country
Immigrant
- CORRECT ANSWERS - a person who comes to a country to live there permanently
legal permanent resident
- CORRECT ANSWERS - someone who is legally and permanently living in the U.S.,
but not a citizen
naturalization
- CORRECT ANSWERS - the process by which an immigrant becomes a citizen
resident
- CORRECT ANSWERS - someone who lives in a place for a minimum period of time
Voting Rights Act of 1965
, - CORRECT ANSWERS - a federal law that banned race discrimination in voting
practices by federal, state, and local governments
Obligation
- CORRECT ANSWERS - a requirement, something a person has to do
petitioning the government - CORRECT ANSWERS - the right to ask the government to
solve a problem or to express an opinion about how the government is being run
responsibility - CORRECT ANSWERS - something a person should do
selective service - CORRECT ANSWERS - a system by which men ages 18 through 25
register with the U.S. government for military service
Founding Fathers - CORRECT ANSWERS - representatives from each of the 13 colonies
who participated in writing the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution
individual liberty - CORRECT ANSWERS - a person's ability to be free and independent
natural law - CORRECT ANSWERS - laws passed by government to protect natural
rights
social contract - CORRECT ANSWERS - an implied agreement among the people of an
organized society that defines the rights, duties, and limitations of the governed and the
government
Common Sense - CORRECT ANSWERS - a pamphlet published by Thomas Paine in
1776 to convince the American colonists to support becoming independent from England
English Bill of Rights - CORRECT ANSWERS - a government document that expanded
the powers of the English Parliament and expanded the rights of the people, as well as further
limited the rights of the king; written by the members of the English Parliament in 1689
