2025 Citizenship Test - Additional / Revised Civics Questions

USCIS has recently revised the citizenship test for naturalization, effective October 20, 2025.  The new civics test question bank now contains 128 questions, including several new additions and updated versions of previous questions.  The following are some of the new or revised questions and answers about American government and history:


Q:  What is the purpose of the 10th Amendment?
(It states that the) powers not given to the federal government belong to the states or to the people.

Q:  Why is the Electoral College important?
• It decides who is elected president.  • It provides a compromise between the popular election of the president and congressional selection.

Q: Name one example of an American innovation.
• Light bulb • Automobile (cars, internal combustion engine) • Skyscrapers • Airplane • Assembly line
• Landing on the moon • Integrated circuit (IC)

Q: How many Supreme Court justices are usually needed to decide a case?
• Five (5)

Q: Supreme Court justices serve for life. Why?
• To be independent (of politics)  • To limit outside (political) influence

Q: How can people become United States citizens?
• Be born in the United States, under the conditions set by the 14th Amendment  • Naturalize  • Derive citizenship (under conditions set by Congress)

Q: It is important for all men age 18 through 25 to register for the Selective Service. Name one reason why.
• Required by law   • Civic duty  • Makes the draft fair, if needed

Q: The American Revolution had many important events. Name one.
• (Battle of) Bunker Hill   • Declaration of Independence  • Washington Crossing the Delaware (Battle of Trenton)  • (Battle of) Saratoga  • Valley Forge (Encampment)   • (Battle of) Yorktown (British surrender at Yorktown)

Q:   Thomas Jefferson is famous for many things. Name one.
• Writer of the Declaration of Independence  • Third president of the United States   • Doubled the size of the United States (Louisiana Purchase)   • First Secretary of State   • Founded the University of Virginia   • Writer of the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom

Q: James Madison is famous for many things. Name one.
• “Father of the Constitution”  • Fourth president of the United States   • President during the War of 1812   • One of the writers of the Federalist Papers

Q: The Civil War had many important events. Name one.
• (Battle of) Fort Sumter   • Emancipation Proclamation    • (Battle of) Vicksburg   • (Battle of) Gettysburg   • Sherman’s March   • (Surrender at) Appomattox   • (Battle of) Antietam/Sharpsburg   
• Lincoln was assassinated.

Q:  What was the Great Depression?
• Longest economic recession in modern history

2. When did the Great Depression start?
• The Great Crash (1929)   • Stock market crash of 1929

Q: Who was the United States’ main rival during the Cold War?
• Soviet Union   • USSR    • Russia

Q: Why did the United States enter the Vietnam War?
• To stop the spread of communism

Q: Why did the United States enter the Persian Gulf War?
• To force the Iraqi military from Kuwait   

Q: Name one U.S. military conflict after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• (Global) War on Terror    • War in Afghanistan    • War in Iraq

Q: The Nation’s first motto was “E Pluribus Unum.” What does that mean?
• Out of many, one   • We all become one

Q: What is Memorial Day?
• A holiday to honor soldiers who died in military service

Q: What is Veterans Day?
• A holiday to honor people in the (U.S.) military
• A holiday to honor people who have served (in the U.S. military)


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