American Issues Quizzes
Interactive Educational Quizzes provide an effective and fun way to objectively measure your citizenship knowledge and skills. The more you take the quizzes, the more you will learn.
Track your progress by printing out the “Citizenship Development Planning and Self Rating Worksheet.”
The links in the titles below will take you to the quizzes. Have fun! Become a better citizen.
Symptoms of an Unfair America
Income inequality
- “Quiz: Can you recognize the shape of inequality in America? Most can’t”, The Washington Post, 2015
- Interactive Quiz, Income Inequality and Poverty, Gregory Mankin, Harvard, 4th Ed. 2006
Voting Restrictions
- How much do you know about voting restrictions?, MSNBC, 2014
- “Elections and Voting Quiz (Level 1)”, FactMonster.com
- “Voting Rights Act History Quiz”, Civil Rights Teaching.org
- “Quiz: Voting Rights”, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Washington State
- “Quiz: Voting in the US Government for Kids”, Ducksters.com
Gerrymandering
- Can You Solve Slate’s Gerrymandering Jigsaw Puzzle?, Slate and the New America Foundation
Mass Incarceration
Gun Violence
US Tax System
IRS, “Understanding Taxes, the WHYs of Taxes”
National Debt
Public Education
What do you know about public education?
Current U.S. Politics
Candidates on Issues
Possible Solutions: Learn from Others
Article on how other countries handle health-care: healthpaconline.net
TRACK YOUR PROGRESS
Download the Worksheet (PDF) to track your progress on the site.
Citizenship in the US
How to Use this Site
This site can empower your citizenship.
- Explore, LEARN AND DISCUSS issues important to citizens.
- Test yourself with QUIZZES that are designed to educate and guide you through the site.
- PRINT OUT the “Tracking Your Progress Sheet”.
- VOLUNTEER to improve and expand this site.
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