1. What type of government do we have in the United States?
Republic
Democracy
Monarchy

2. What are the two major politcal parties of the United States?
Republican, Libertarian
Democrat, Republican
Independent, Democrat

3. Who may vote in the United States?
Anyone who pays taxes
Any man over 18 years of age
Any citizen over 18 years of age

4. What are the three branches of the U.S. Government?
Judicial, Executive, Legislative
Judicial, Executive, Republican
Executive, Legislative, Democratic

5. If you see someone stealing from a grocery store, who is the person that you should call?
Judge
Policman
Mayor

6. Which U.S. war is associated with slavery?
World War I
The Spanish-American War
The Civil War

7. Who was fighting in the Civil War?
The Northern States and the Southern States
England and the United States
The Western and the Eastern states

8. When the civil war ended, the population of Springfield, Illinois grew rapidly, why?
There were more jobs there.
They were giving land away for free.
The former slaves moved north to get away from their former masters.

9. What major crop is grown in Illinois and shipped to other parts of the world?
Corn
Sugar
Wheat

10. The U.S. midwest is a _________.
tundra
mountainous region
plain

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