2024 Civics Semester Exam

Foreign-born people who move permanently to a new country are called __________.

• Refugees
• Fugitives
• Immigrants
• Soldiers

About __________ percent of all the people now living in the U.S. are descended from families who once lived in another country.

• 50%
• 98%
• 100%
• 0%

When do scholars believe people first migrated to the land that is now the United States?

• 10,000 years ago
• 20,000 years ago
• 1,000,000 years ago
• 45,000 years ago

When did people from Europe begin coming to North America?

• Beginning in the 1600s.
• 1492 AD
• 1000 BC
• Beginning in the 14th century

Where did Americans start moving to in the "mid-1800s"?

• To the countryside to work on farms.
• To South America
• To Canada
• To the city for better paying jobs.

What are "service jobs"?

• Teaching, programming computers, providing healthcare, and practicing law.
• jobs that only immigrants can work
• jobs that only Americans can work
• all of the above

What is a group of people who share a common national, cultural, or racial background?

• Cultural Sect
• Diversity
• Ethnic Group
• all of the above

Which of the following mean "rule by the people"?

• Theocracy
• Democracy
• Feudalism
• Jainism

Any organization that has the power to make and carry out laws for the people in the community is a __________.

• Team
• Union
• Club
• Government

What do laws serve to prevent?

• conflicts between individuals
• conflicts between groups
• conflicts between nations
• all of the above