Florida Civic Literacy Exam Prep (2023/ 2024 New Update) Questions and Verified Answers| Graded A| 100% Correct
Florida Civic Literacy Exam Prep (2023/
2024 New Update) Questions and Verified
Answers| Graded A| 100% Correct
QUESTION
In what month do we vote for President?
Answer:
November
QUESTION
What is the name of the President of the United States now?
Answer:
Joe Biden
QUESTION
What is the name of the Vice President of the United States now?
Answer:
Kamala Harris
QUESTION
If the President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
Answer:
Vice President
QUESTION
If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
Answer:
the Speaker of the House
QUESTION
Who is the Commander in Chief of the military?
Answer:
the President
QUESTION
Who signs bills to become laws?
Answer:
the President
QUESTION
Who vetoes bills?
Answer:
the President
QUESTION
What does the President’s Cabinet do?
Answer:
advises the President
QUESTION
What are two Cabinet-level positions?
Answer:
-Secretary of Agriculture
-Secretary of Commerce
-Secretary of Defense
-Secretary of Education
-Secretary of Energy
-Secretary of Health and Human Services
-Secretary of Homeland Security
-Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
-Secretary of the Interior
-Secretary of Labor
-Secretary of State
-Secretary of Transportation
-Secretary of the Treasury
-Secretary of Veterans Affairs
-Attorney General
-Vice President
QUESTION
What does the judicial branch do?
Answer:
-reviews laws
-explains laws
-resolves disputes (disagreements)
-decides if a law goes against the Constitution
QUESTION
What does the legislative branch do?
Answer:
- makes all laws
-declares war
-regulates interstate and foreign commerce
-controls taxing and spending policies
QUESTION
What does the executive branch do?
Answer:
-Enforces laws written by the congress
QUESTION
What is the highest court in the United States?
Answer:
the Supreme Court
QUESTION
How many justices are on the Supreme Court?
Answer:
9
QUESTION
Who is the Chief Justice of the United States now?
Answer:
John Roberts
QUESTION
Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of
the federal government?
Answer:
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Sets up the government; defines the government; protects basic rights of
Americans
What does the Constitution do?
We the People
The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?
A change OR an addition (to the Constitution)
What is an amendment?
The Bill of RIghts
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
Speech, religion, assembly, press, petition the government
What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
27
How many amendments does the Constitution have?
Announce our independence from Great Britain
What did the Declaration of Independence do?
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?
You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion
What is freedom of religion?
Capitalist economy OR market economy
What is the economic system in the United States?
No one is above the law
What is the “rule of law”?
the courts; judicial
Name one branch or part of the government.
Checks and balances; separation of powers
What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
The President
Who is in charge of the executive branch?
Congress; Senate and House (of Representatives); (U.S. or national) legislature
Who makes federal laws?
100
How many U.S. Senators are there?
6
We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?
Richard Shelby & Tommy Tuberville
Who is one of your state’s U.S. Senators?
Joe Biden
What is the name of the current President of the United States?
Kamala Harris
What is the name of the current Vice President of the United States?
Kay Ivey
Who is the Governor of the state of Alabama?
Montgomery
What is the capital of the state of Alabama?
435
The House of Representatives has how many voting members?
The state’s population is larger
Why do some states have more Representatives than other states?
4
We elect a President for how many years?
November
In what month do we vote for President?
The Vice President
If the President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
The President
Who is the Commander in Chief of the military?
The President
Who signs bills to become laws?
The President
Who vetoes bills?
Advises the President
What does the President’s Cabinet do?
Reviews laws, explains laws, resolves disputes (disagreements), decides if a law goes against the Constitution
What does the judicial branch do?
The Supreme Court
What is the highest court in the United States?
9
How many justices are on the Supreme Court?
To print money, to declare war, to create an army, to make treaties
Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of the federal government?
Provide public schooling
and education, provide protection (police), provide safety (fire departments)
Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states?
Democratic and Republican
What are the two major political parties in the United States?
Democrat
What is the political party of the current U.S. President?
Citizens eighteen (18) and
older (can vote); Any citizen can vote. (Women and men can vote.); A male citizen of any race (can vote).
There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them.
Serve on a jury; vote in a federal election
What is one responsibility that is only for United States citizens?
The United States
What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance?
Give up loyalty to other countries; defend the Constitution and laws of the United States; be loyal to the United States
What is one promise you make when you become a United States citizen?
18 and older
How old do citizens have to be to vote for President?
Vote, join a political party
What are two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy?
18
When must all men register for the Selective Service?
Freedom, religious freedom
What is one reason colonists came to America?
American Indians
Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
Africans
What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
July 4, 1776
When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
There were 13 original states. Name three.
The Constitution was written.
What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
James Madison
The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers
U.S. diplomat
What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?
George Washington
Who is the “Father of Our Country”?
George Washington
Who was the first President?
The Louisiana Territory
What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
The Civil War
Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.
Slavery, states’ rights
Name one problem that led to the Civil War.
Freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation)
What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?
Freed the slaves and freed slaves in the Confederacy
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Woodrow Wilson
Who was President during World War I?
Franklin Roosevelt
Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?
Japan, Germany, and Italy
Who did the United States fight in World War II?
Communism
During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?
Civil Rights movement
What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
Fought for civil rights and worked for equality for all Americans
What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?
Terrorists attacked the United States
What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States?
Missouri (River), Mississippi (River)
Name one of the two longest rivers in the United States.
Pacific (Ocean)
What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?
Atlantic (Ocean)
What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States?
Washington, D.C.
What is the capital of the United States?
New York (Harbor), Liberty Island
Where is the Statue of Liberty?
There were 13 original colonies
Why does the flag have 13 stripes?
There are 50 states, each star represents a state.
Why does the flag have 50 stars?
The Star-Spangled Banner
What is the name of the national anthem?
July 4
When do we celebrate Independence Day?
Thanksgiving, Christmas
Name two national U.S. holidays.
2nd Amendment
What amendment gives citizens the right to bear arms?
The right to remain silent, the right to have an attorney present during questioning and the right to a free attorney if you cannot afford one.
What are the Miranda rights that are read to a person when under arrest?
Women
Which group did the 19th Amendment to the Constitution grant the right to vote?
Due process of law
What is every citizen entitled to when accused of a crime?
Democracy
What do the citizens of a country hold the power in?
Republicans and Democrats
Two major political parties in the United States:
Pacific Ocean
Name the largest ocean in the world.
Life
What is the length of term for a federal judge or justice?
2/3
How many votes does Congress need to override the veto of the President?
Totalitarian
Name the government in which the ideas of a single leader or small group are the only way to govern.
Treaty
What is a formal agreement between two or more sovereign states?
The Congress
War is declared only by who?
The Declaration of Independence
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” What is this quotation from?
John Roberts
Name the current Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Jerry Carl
Who is the representative from Alabama’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. Congress?