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The Three Branches — Overview
3 official civics questions from the 2025 version (128 questions) of the USCIS naturalization test — the 2025 test applies if USCIS received your Form N-400 on or after October 20, 2025. Topic area: american government — b: system of government. On test day the officer asks 20 questions from the full bank of 128 and you need 12 correct.
Name the three branches of government.
Answer: Legislative, executive, and judicial
The President of the United States is in charge of which branch of government?
Answer: Executive branch
What part of the federal government writes laws?
Answer: (U.S.) Congress
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- The Three Branches — Overview — you are here
- Principles — System Fundamentals
- Principles — Constitution & Amendments
- Principles — Declaration & Founding Ideas
- Congress — Structure, Counts & Terms
- Presidency & Executive Branch
- Judiciary & Supreme Court
- Federalism — Federal vs State Powers
- Current Officeholders & Your State (dynamic set)
- Rights — Voting & Resident-vs-Citizen
- Rights — Citizenship, Pledge & Oath
- Rights — Civic Duties & Participation
- Colonial — Peoples & Settlement
- Colonial — Revolution & Independence
- Colonial — The Founders
- Colonial — 1787 Constitution & Federalist Papers
- 1800s — Expansion, Civil War & Lincoln
- 1800s — Reconstruction Amendments & Suffrage
- 1900s — World Wars
- 1900s — Great Depression & FDR
- 1900s — Cold War & Communism
- 1900s — Rights Movements & Suffrage
- Recent History & American Heritage
- Symbols — Flag, Capital, Statue, Anthem & Motto
- Holidays — incl. Memorial-vs-Veterans Trap Pair
- English Component — Reading & Writing (M-715)