Question 103 of 128 · 2025 test
What was the Great Depression?
2025 test only
This question is from the 2025 test, which applies if you filed Form N-400 on or after Oct 20, 2025: the officer asks up to 20 of the 128 questions and 12 correct answers pass. Earlier filers take the 2008 test - check your version on the official USCIS test-updates page.
Accepted answer
- Longest economic recession in modern history
The 65/20 special consideration
Question 103 is not one of the 20 asterisked questions, so an applicant who qualifies for the 65/20 special consideration would not be asked it. Everyone else studies all 128.
Answers that get mixed up with this one
These are the wrong options the 2025 practice test puts beside this question. Each one is the correct answer to a different 2025 question.
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- (Battle of) Fort Sumteranswers Question 93: The Civil War had many important events. Name one.
- Washington, D.C.answers Question 119: What is the capital of the United States?
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Question and answers from the USCIS document 128 Civics Questions and Answers (2025 version), M-1778 (09/25), U.S. government public domain.