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Pilot Test Questions and Answers
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
80. Who can vote in the U.S. presidential elections?
A: All citizens 18 years of age and older
A: All registered citizens 18 years of age and older
81. Name two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy.
A: Vote
A: Join a political party
A: Help out with a campaign
A: Join a civic group
A: Join a community group
A: Tell an elected official your opinion on an issue.
A: Call your Senators and Representatives
A: Publicly support or oppose an issue or policy
A: Run for office
A: Write to a newspaper
82. When is the last day you can send in federal income tax forms?
A: By April 15th of every year
A: By April 15th
A: April 15
83. Name two of the natural, or inalienable, rights in the Declaration
of Independence.
A: Life
A: Liberty
A: The pursuit of happiness
AMERICAN HISTORY
A: Colonial and Independence
84. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
A: Thomas Jefferson
85. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
A: July 4, 1776
86. Name one reason why the colonists came to America?
A: Freedom
A: Political liberty
A: Religious freedom
A: Economic opportunity
A: To practice their religion
A: To escape persecution
87. What happened at the Constitutional Convention? *
A: The Constitution was written.
A: The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.
88. Why did the colonists fight the British?
A: They had to pay high taxes but did not have any
say about it. (Taxation without representation.)
A: The British army stayed in their houses.
(boarding, quartering)
A: The British denied the colonists self-government.
89. When was the Constitution drafted?
A: 1787
90. There are 13 original states. Name three.
A: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia.
91. What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
A: Africans
A: People from Africa
92. Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
A: The Native Americans
A: American Indians
93. Where did most of America’s colonists come from before the
Revolution? *
A: Europe
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