Ragland Citizenship Qustion Set # 3

The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.

• (James) Madison

• (Thomas) Jefferson

• (Benjamin) Franklin

• (George) Washington

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

• First President of the United States

• Author of the Declaration of Independence

• Led the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.

• the Civil War, the War between the States

• the Revolutionary War

• the Vietnam War

• the Korean War

Name one problem that led to the Civil War.

• slavery, economic reasons, states’ rights

• the invention of the telephone

• the discovery of gold in California

• the building of the transcontinental railroad

• the signing of the Declaration of Independence

What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?

• freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation), saved (or preserved) the Union, led the United States during the Civil War

• discovered electricity

• founded the city of New York

• invented the telephone

• wrote the Declaration of Independence

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• freed the slaves, freed slaves in the Confederate states

• gave women the right to vote

• ended World War I

• established the Bill of Rights

What did Susan B. Anthony do?

• fought for women’s rights, fought for civil rights

• discovered electricity

• was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic

• invented the telephone

• wrote the Declaration of Independence

Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.

• World War I

• The Hundred Years' War

• The Napoleonic Wars

• The War of the Roses

Who was President during World War I?

• (Woodrow) Wilson

• (Franklin) Roosevelt

• (Herbert) Hoover

• (Theodore) Roosevelt

Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?

• (Franklin) Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover

• Harry S. Truman

• Woodrow Wilson