Civics Test - (Solved) 1. What is the supreme law of the land...

Civics Test

GRADED A+ (ACTUAL TEST ) Questions and Answers (Solved)

• What is the supreme law of the land?

Answer: the Constitution

• 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 d owe call the first ten amendments to the constitution?

Answer: the Bill of Rights

• Wat is one right of freedom from the First Amendment?

Answer:

Speech Religion assembly press petition the government

• / 3

• How many amendments does the constitution have?

Answer: twenty-seven (27)

• 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 2 / 3

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 U.S. Congress?

Answer: the Senate and House (of Representatives)

• How many U.S. Senators are there?

Answer: one hundred (100)

• We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?

Answer: 6 years

• Who is one of your state's U.S. Senators now?

Answer: Mitt Romney, Mike Lee

• / 3