2025 civics recall cards: the 1800s

This deck covers questions 90 to 99 of the 2025 civics list, the section on The 1800s: 10 cards in total. It covers the Louisiana Purchase, wars of the 1800s, the Civil War and its events, Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, the 14th and 15th Amendments and leaders of the women's rights movement.

How the cards work. The front of each card is the question exactly as it appears in the USCIS list. The back gives every answer USCIS lists for it. Where the list accepts any one of several answers, the back says so; where the officer asks for two, three or five answers, the back says how many. Words in parentheses are optional: "(U.S.) Constitution" means that "Constitution" alone is accepted.

Why recall and not multiple choice. The six practice tests in this category are multiple choice, which is good for telling similar facts apart. The real civics test is spoken, and the officer gives you no options. These cards train the harder skill: producing an answer from memory. Read the question, say your answer aloud, then turn the card and compare. You do not need to use the exact words on the back, but your answer must mean the same thing.

About this section. Several answers here are dates or amendments that are easy to mix up with later ones: the 15th Amendment and 1870 for men's voting rights, against the 19th Amendment and 1920 for women, which is in the next section. Most questions in this section accept several answers, so you rarely need a precise phrase.

How to use the deck. Go through it once to see which cards you already know, then repeat the ones you missed until you can answer them without hesitation. For questions with a long list of accepted answers, choose one or two you find easy to say and always use those. Together, the eight decks in this series cover all 128 questions of the 2025 list, section by section.

On test day nothing is multiple choice and nothing is on a card: the officer reads the question aloud and you answer in your own words. Say each answer out loud while you study, because that is what you will do in the interview. This is independent practice; it is not produced or endorsed by USCIS, and no practice material can promise a result.

• Recall the accepted answers for questions 90 to 99 of the 2025 list
• Name the wars and events of the 1800s that the list accepts
• Say what the Emancipation Proclamation did and which war ended slavery
• Keep the 14th and 15th Amendments apart
• Say each answer aloud from memory, as on the spoken test

Practice material written by Zestly, based on the USCIS 2025 civics question list "128 Civics Questions and Answers (2025 version)", M-1778 (09/25).