2025 civics recall cards: Recent American History

This deck covers questions 100 to 118 of the 2025 civics list, the section on Recent American History: 19 cards in total. It covers the wars of the 1900s and why the United States entered them, women's right to vote, the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower, the Cold War, the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr., September 11, 2001 and the conflicts after it, American Indian tribes and American innovations.

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. Four questions in this section ask why the United States entered a war, and two of them (Korea and Vietnam) share the same answer: to stop the spread of communism. The cards list every accepted answer, including the twenty-five tribes named in the USCIS list.

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 100 to 118 of the 2025 list
• Match each war of the 1900s with the reason the United States entered it
• Explain the Great Depression, the Cold War and the civil rights movement in a few words
• Name one American Indian tribe and one American innovation from the list
• 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).