US Civics Exam

I got 19 out of 20, only missing when the Constitution was written. 1787 or 1789? Two years apart? Seriously? I'm surprised more people didn't miss that--say about 50%. I can live with being that close...

And then another question had one of the options "Lincoln defeated the Nazis." Geez.

14 out of 20. I'm a bad citizen, also I think my history teacher is going to hunt me down.

Lincoln was a fairly practical guy - I always took that quote more as him expressing frustration about people (or states) who couldn't be reasonable with rather than a rationale for the Civil War.

There's not doubt that all-around social attitudes towards slavery did not have the same mores we do today (at least towards the kind that occurs in daylight), but I think it's a pretty big overreach to make a claim that Lincoln didn't care about slavery one way or the other from that quote.

I swear Don. You just can't count on anything these days

George Washington never told a lie.

Lincoln freed the slaves

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and Nixon opened China...

Wait. What?

3 wrong including the year the Constitution was written.

Also that Federalist Papers author thing.

Also #20 should have been "all of these answers" and I picked "high taxes." I'm a good little CPA I am!

19/20

Madison, not Jefferson. Why must they both end in "son?" But it seems I still earned what I already have by virtue of my birth. America!

(I'm pretty sure it's "President pro tem," not "pro temp.")

16/20 for this Englishman.

jennontheisland said:

Apparently I may as well be American.

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Same sitch. Got 13/20. Never stepped a foot in the US, but not because I don't want to. Never had the means.

MarkEsq said:

16/20 for this Englishman.

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Me too.

16 out of 20. Missed the year the bill of rights was written, the number of representatives, who wrote the federalist papers, and oddly, why the US started the war with Britain. I just picked "high taxed." I didn't literally think they slept in their homes.

thebloodfiend said:

16 out of 20. Missed the year the bill of rights was written, the number of representatives, who wrote the federalist papers, and oddly, why the US started the war with Britain. I just picked "high taxed." I didn't literally think they slept in their homes.

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That was the reason for the Third Amendment in the Bill of Rights.

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

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School sucks!

Don said:

That was the reason for the Third Amendment in the Bill of Rights.

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I recognized all the reasons except the debt, so that threw me off.

20/20. I'm wondering if this is a sampling of the citizenship test, thus the mix of history and patriotism.

And wondering if my pre-occupation with politics, PR and "spin" was what made me dig into the site to see where it came from and why before taking the test.

15/20.

MarkEsq said:

16/20 for this Englishman.

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Turn in your law license. You're 'way too smart.
(Sorry, I couldn't resist. Just kidding. Some of my best friends are lawyers.)

20/20 But I was an American History major.

Aw, I got 7 out of 20. *goes to stand in the corner*

Don said:

[derail]



From Lincoln’s Published Response to Horace Greeley, 1862

[/derail]

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.

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Yeah, he wanted to save the Union because it was at odds because of...

thebloodfiend said:

16 out of 20. Missed the year the bill of rights was written, the number of representatives, who wrote the federalist papers, and oddly, why the US started the war with Britain. I just picked "high taxed." I didn't literally think they slept in their homes.

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Yeah, they did, and ate their food and took their stuff, too. It really pissed everyone off.

I got 15/20 and am horrified with myself, though I mostly missed the bits I expect me to miss, all those persnickety little details like how many Reps there are, who's third in the executive chain of command (I thought it was Sec of State), and so forth. I got the Constitution and history questions right, at least. In my defense I did the test at 1:00 AM and I've been suffering insomnia for weeks, but still... bad Mura.

What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?

D: purchased Alaska

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From who, the penguins?

Kaiser-Kun said:

From who, the penguins?

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Russian penguins.

http://www.alaskahistoricalsociety.org/index.cfm/discover-alaska/FAQs/15

Although, yes, not Lincoln. His replacement, Johnson.

Huh, I missed three. Two of them I wasn't sure on and was pretty sure I was wrong, but I could have sworn next in line for the president after the vice president was in the senate, not the house. Apparently I was wrong.

kaitie said:

Huh, I missed three. Two of them I wasn't sure on and was pretty sure I was wrong, but I could have sworn next in line for the president after the vice president was in the senate, not the house. Apparently I was wrong.

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I think you may have just flip-flopped the Speaker of the House and the President pro Tempore of the Senate, who is next after the Speaker.

Yup, I had them backwards. I thought senators got top dibs because they are specialer.