The short answer
These are the 100 questions in the 2008 naturalization civics bank. You take this version if your Form N-400 was filed before October 20, 2025. The officer asks up to 10 and you need 6 correct. Any accepted answer counts.
Marked 65/20 means it is on the shorter list
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American History: Colonial Period and Independence
58. What is one reason colonists came to America?
freedom political liberty religious freedom economic opportunity practice their religion escape persecution 59. Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
American Indians Native Americans 60. What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
Africans people from Africa 61. Why did the colonists fight the British?
because of high taxes (taxation without representation) because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering) because they didn’t have self-government 62. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
63. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
64. There were 13 original states. Name three.
New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia 65. What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
The Constitution was written. The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution. 66. When was the Constitution written?
67. The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
(James) Madison (Alexander) Hamilton (John) Jay Publius 68. What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?
U.S. diplomat oldest member of the Constitutional Convention first Postmaster General of the United States writer of “Poor Richard’s Almanac” started the first free libraries 69. Who is the “Father of Our Country”?
70. Who was the first President?65/20 list
American History: 1800s
71. What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
the Louisiana Territory Louisiana 72. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.
War of 1812 Mexican-American War Civil War Spanish-American War 73. Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.
the Civil War the War between the States 74. Name one problem that led to the Civil War.
slavery economic reasons states’ rights 75. What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?65/20 list
freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation) saved (or preserved) the Union led the United States during the Civil War 76. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
freed the slaves freed slaves in the Confederacy freed slaves in the Confederate states freed slaves in most Southern states 77. What did Susan B. Anthony do?
fought for women’s rights fought for civil rights
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