The U.S. Citizenship Test

When immigrants wanting to be United States citizens are interviewed, they may be asked any of 100 questions. Here are some of them. How many can you answer correctly?

1. What are the colors of our flag?
2. How many stripes are there in the flag?
3. What do the stripes on the flag mean?

Chapter Articles

Thomas Jefferson hoped America would become an agrarian nation and for much of its history, it was. During Jefferson’s lifetime, the rural population always made up over 90% of the total population. However, the 1910 U.S. census was the last to record a greater percentage of rural folks to urbanites—54.4% of U.S. residents were listed as rural. The percentage continues to drop. In the 2000 census, only 21% of the population was reported as being rural.