Thu. Nov 13th, 2025

US General Awareness MCQs

  1. Who is in charge of the executive branch?

    Options:
    1. Congress
    2. The Supreme Court
    3. The President
    4. The Vice President

    Option: C

  2. What part of the government writes laws?

    Options:
    1. Supreme Court
    2. The Congress
    3. The President
    4. The States

    Option: B

  3. Who makes federal laws?

    Options:
    1. The States
    2. Congress
    3. The President
    4. The Cabinet

    Option: B

  4. Name one branch or part of the government.

    Options:
    1. Police
    2. Legislative
    3. Media
    4. Governors

    Option: B

  5. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?

    Options:
    1. Elections
    2. Checks and Balances
    3. States
    4. The Media

    Option: A

  6. Who is in charge of the Senate?

    Options:
    1. The President
    2. The Speaker of the House
    3. The Chief Justice
    4. The Vice President

    Option: D

  7. Who becomes President if both the President and Vice President can no longer serve?

    Options:
    1. The Chief Justice
    2. The Speaker of the House
    3. The Secretary of State
    4. The Secretary of Defense

    Option: B

  8. Who was President during World War I?

    Options:
    1. Woodrow Wilson
    2. Franklin Roosevelt
    3. Harry Truman
    4. Theodore Roosevelt

    Option: A

  9. Who was President during the Great Depression and WWII?

    Options:
    1. Franklin D. Roosevelt
    2. Harry Truman
    3. Dwight Eisenhower
    4. John F. Kennedy

    Option: A

  10. During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?

    Options:
    1. Climate Change
    2. Terrorism
    3. Communism
    4. Civil Rights

    Option: C

  11. What is the economic system of the U.S.?

    Options:
    1. Communism
    2. Capitalist or Market Economy
    3. Socialist
    4. Feudal

    Option: B

  12. Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

    Options:
    1. Africans
    2. Mexicans
    3. American Indians / Native Americans
    4. British Colonists

    Option: C

  13. Why did the colonists fight the British?

    Options:
    1. High taxes and lack of self-government
    2. To gain land in Canada
    3. To support the king
    4. To be part of the British Empire

    Option: A

  14. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

    Options:
    1. July 4, 1776
    2. July 2, 1776
    3. September 17, 1787
    4. 1789

    Option: B

  15. What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?

    Options:
    1. Alaska
    2. Florida
    3. Louisiana Territory
    4. Texas

    Option: C

  16. Name one war fought by the U.S. in the 1800s.

    Options:
    1. Korean War
    2. Civil War
    3. Vietnam War
    4. Persian Gulf War

    Option: B

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

    Options:
    1. Revolutionary War
    2. Civil War
    3. World War I
    4. Vietnam War

    Option: B

  18. Name one problem that led to the Civil War.

    Options:
    1. Slavery
    2. Economic Growth
    3. Tax Cuts

    Option: A

  19. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

    Options:
    1. Freed slaves in the Confederacy
    2. Started the Civil War
    3. Gave women the right to vote
    4. Established the Constitution

    Option: A

  20. What did Susan B. Anthony do?

    Options:
    1. Fought in the Civil War
    2. Was a President
    3. Invented electricity

    Option: A