The United States Citizen and Immigration Services Department has teamed up with the Smithsonian National Museum of American History to create a study guide for the United States Naturalization test. The guide is complete with many primary source documents (photographs, artifacts, maps, political cartoons, documents, etc) and secondary sources that you should be acquainted with. You can access the guide by going to this website http://americanhistory.si.edu/citizenship/. (1) Once you are there you must click on the tab called "Start Learning." (2) You will then be directed to a new window that includes 15 themes (Government Basics, Courts, Congress, The Presidency, Rights, Responsibilities, Voting, Geography, Establishing Independence, Writing The Constitution, Symbols & Holidays, A Growing Nation, Famous Citizens, The 1900's, The 1800's).
Your Task is to navigate through all the 15 Themes in the Preparing For The Oath: U.S. History and Civics For Citizenship website. The information and images included in this online study guide are the basics to U.S. History. This is the information that a person that seeks to become a Naturalized US citizen must know and understand. The gathered facts are so basic to US History that its similar to knowing how to multiply in a high school math class. If you are dedicated and patient you will be able to sit through all of the themes in a little over 2 hours. You can also divide the study of each theme to a few per day.
You will be expected to know and understand all the information presented in this site for the remainder of the course. Stay tuned for an upcoming exam....
