Question 75 of 128 · 2025 test
What group of people was taken and sold as slaves?
2025 test · also on the 2008 test as #60
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.
2 accepted answers
- Africans
- People from Africa
On the 2008 test
The 2008 test asks this as Question 60: “What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?”
The 2008 question lists the same 2 answers.
Background
Africans were taken to America and sold as slaves. Slavery is a central and painful part of American history that shaped the nation and the Civil War.
From this site's page for 2008 Question 60.
The 65/20 special consideration
Question 75 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.
- Provide schooling and educationanswers Question 59: Name one power that is only for the states.
- Be born in the United States, under the conditions set by the 14th Amendmentanswers Question 68: How can people become United States citizens?
- The Civil Waranswers Question 92: Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.
More Colonial Period and Independence questions
Question and answers from the USCIS document 128 Civics Questions and Answers (2025 version), M-1778 (09/25), U.S. government public domain.