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Wisconsin 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 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 (27)
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- 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
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