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Originally Posted by NoMo50
The sad thing is that most 20-somethings, who were born in the USA, would not be able to pass the citizenship exam. In our old hometown, they made U.S. History an elective in high school many years ago.
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Most Americans wouldn't be able to pass it. History is one of those things I took in school because it was required. I didn't care about it, I didn't care about my teacher, I did just well enough in it to pass (got a C-). History class was memorizing dates of things that had no meaning to me, because they never bothered to explain why it /should/ have meaning to me.
Most Americans don't know, or care, what happened June 25, 1876 and would have to google it to be reminded of its significance.
Most Americans don't know that a Senator's term of service is 6 years, with a 2-year rotation of 1/3 of the Senate, and a Congressperson's term of service is 2 years, and its entirety is up for re-election every even-numbered year.