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CIVICS (History and government)

Questions & Answers for the

Naturalization Test

United States gammi suah nading theihhuai thute

dotna leh dawn’na

ႏငငသားဆငရာ ႏငငသားဆငရာ ႏငငသားဆငရာ ႏငငသားဆငရာ ((((သမငးေရးႏင အစးရသမငးေရးႏင အစးရသမငးေရးႏင အစးရသမငးေရးႏင အစးရ)))) ေမးခြနးႏငအေျဖမားေမးခြနးႏငအေျဖမားေမးခြနးႏငအေျဖမားေမးခြနးႏငအေျဖမား

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U.S. Naturalization

100 Civics Questions and Answers In

English, Zolai & Burmese

Translated by

Dr. C. Thang Za Tuan (English to Zolai)

J. Man Ngaih Hau (English to Burmese)

Edited by Pau Khan Sang

# The 100 civics (history and government) questions and answers for the naturalization test are listed below. The civics test is an oral test and the USCIS Officer will ask the applicant up to 10 of the 100 civics questions. An applicant must answer 6 out of 10 questions correctly to pass the civics portion of the nationalization test. # Gammi suah nading gammi tawh kisai (tangthu leh ki-uk zia) dotna 100 ahi hi. Laivuanna-ah kam aa dot hi aa, USCIS Ulian te’n, 100 sung pan 10 hong dong ding hi. 10 sung pan 6 limtak-in dawn’kik theih kul hi. # ႏငငသားျဖစခြငစာေမးပြအတြက ႏငငသားဆငရာ(သမငးေရးႏငအစးရ) ေမးခြနး ၁၀၀ ေဖၚျပထားပါသည၊ စာေမးပြမာ ႏႈတေျဖျဖစၿပး၊ USCIS အရာရက ေျဖဆသအား အပဒ ၁၀၀ အနကမ ၁၀ ပဒက စစေဆးေမးျမနးပါမည။ စာေမးပြေအာငျမငရန ၁၀ ပဒအနကမ ၆ ပဒက မနကနစြာ ေျဖဆႏငရမညျဖစသည၊ # If you are 65 years old or older and have been a legal permanent resident of the United States for 20 or more years, you may study just the questions that have been marked with an asterisk. (Pages 3, 5-10, 17, 18, 21, 22, 27, 29, 31, 32, 35-38) # Kum 65 leh a tungsiah pha-in America gam-ah a om tawntung, kum 20 leh a tungsiah a om khin-te in asterish (*) tawh ki lak-te bek ciamteh ding ahi hi. (Laimai 3, 5-10, 17, 18, 21, 22, 27, 29, 31, 32, 35-38) # အကယ၍ သငသည အသက ၆၅ ႏစ သ႔မဟတ ၆၅ ႏစအထကရၿပး၊ အေမရကနႏငငအတြငး

အၿမတမးေနထငသအျဖစ ေနထငမႈသကတမး အႏစ ၂၀ သ႔မဟတ အႏစ ၂၀ အထကတြငရပါက ခေရပြင

ျပထားေသာ ေမးခြနးမားကသာ ေလလာေျဖဆႏငပါသည။ (pmrsufESmpmrsufESmpmrsufESmpmrsufESm 3, 5-10, 17, 18, 21, 22, 27, 29, 31, 32, 35-38)

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American GovernmentAmerican GovernmentAmerican GovernmentAmerican Government

American Gam kiAmerican Gam kiAmerican Gam kiAmerican Gam ki----ukzia Thu ukzia Thu ukzia Thu ukzia Thu အေမရကနအစးရဆငရာအေမရကနအစးရဆငရာအေမရကနအစးရဆငရာအေမရကနအစးရဆငရာ

A.A.A.A. Principles of American DemocracyPrinciples of American DemocracyPrinciples of American DemocracyPrinciples of American Democracy American gam Democracy ThubulpiteAmerican gam Democracy ThubulpiteAmerican gam Democracy ThubulpiteAmerican gam Democracy Thubulpite အေမရကနဒမကေရစသေဘာတရားမားအေမရကနဒမကေရစသေဘာတရားမားအေမရကနဒမကေရစသေဘာတရားမားအေမရကနဒမကေရစသေဘာတရားမား

1. What is the supreme law of the land? USA gam ii zuih thukhun Upadi thupi pen bang hiam? ႏငငေတာ၏ အျမငဆးဥပေဒသည ဘာလ - the Constitution - Gammki-ukna Thukhunpi hi - ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပ အေျခခဥပေဒ

2. What does the Constitution do?

Gamki-ukna Thukhunpi in bangteng vaan hiam? ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပအေျခခဥပေဒက ဘာေတြလပသလ - Sets up the government - Gam-uk ding kumpi phut - အစးရကပေဖၚဖြ႕စညးေပးသည - defines the government - Ki-ukzia ding geel - အစးရ၏တာ၀နေတြက သတမတသည - protects basic rights of Americans - Americans mite’ septheih leh ngahtheih peuhmah peelhem saklo (protects) - အေမရကနႏငငသားမား၏ အေျခခအခြငအေရးေတြက ကာကြယေပးသည

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3. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words? Gamki-ukna Thukhunpi sungah ei leh ei ki-ukzia ding lamlak kammal thumte bang hiam? ကယပငအစးရထေထာငျခငးဆငရာ အေတြးအေခၚသည ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပ အေျခခဥပေဒ၏ ပထမ စကားလး သးလးတြင ပါ၀ငသည။ ထစကားလး သးလးဟာ ဘာေတြလ? - We the People - Ei mipite - ငါတ႕ အေမရကနျပညသမား

4. What is an amendment? Upadi Puahphatna/behlapna (Amendment) icih bang hiam? ျပငဆငျဖညစြကခကဆသညမာ ဘာလ? - A change (to the Constitution) - Akikheelna khat - (ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပ အေျခခဥပေဒ)၏ အစတအပငးတစခက ျပငဆငျခငး

- An addition (to the Constitution) - Guanbeh (Behlap) - (ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပ အေျခခဥပေဒ) ျဖညစြကျခငး

5. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?

Gamki-ukna Thukhunpi sungah Puahphat masakna sawmte bang kici hiam? ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပ အေျခခဥပေဒ၏ ပထမဆးျပငဆငျဖညစြကခက ၁၀ ခက ဘယလေခၚသလ? - The Bill of Rights - Hamphatnading Upadi - လတစဥးခငးစ၏ အေျခခအကဆး အခြငအေရးမားက အာမခထားသညဥပေဒၾကမး



6. * What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment? Tua Puahphat Masakna ah hamphatna ahihkeh suahtakna khat bang ahia? ပထမဆးျပငဆငျဖညစြကခကမ အခြငအေရးတစခ (သ႔မဟတ) လြတလပခြငတစခကေဖၚျပပါ၊ - Speech - Suaktataka thugentheihna - လြတလပစြာ ေျပာဆပငခြင

- Religion - Suaktataka Biakpiaktheihna - လြတလပစြာ ကးကြယပငခြင

- Assembly

- Suaktataka Kikaihkhoptheihna

- လြတလပစြာ စေ၀းပငခြင

- Press - Suaktataka Laigelh leh hawmtheihna - လြတလပစြာ ေရးသားထတေ၀ပငခြင

- Petition the government - Suaktataka Kumpi tungah lungkimlohna gentheih/pulaktheihna - အစးရထသ႕ လြတလပစြာ အယခတငသြငးပငခြင

7. How many amendments does the Constitution have?

Gamki-ukna Thukhunpi bangzah vei kipuahpha ta hiam? ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပအေျခခဥပေဒတြင ျပငဆငျဖညစြကခက ဘယႏစခရပါသလ? - Twenty-seven(27) - 27 vei - ႏစဆယခႏစခ(၂၇)



8. What did the Declaration of Independence do? Suahtakna Thutangkopina bang hiam? ‘လြတလပေရးေၾကညာစာတမး’ က ဘာလပခသလ? - Announced our independence (from Great Britain) - (Great Britain te kiangpan) suahtak tangkona - (ၿဗတနႏငငႀကး၏လကေအာကမ) လြတေျမာကေၾကာငး အသေပးေၾကညာသည

- Declared our independence (from Great Britain) - (Great Britain te kiangpan) suahtak pulakkhia - (ၿဗတနႏငငႀကး၏လကေအာကမ) လြတေျမာကေၾကာငး အတညျပေၾကညာသည

- Said that the United States is free (from Great Britain) - (Great Britain te kiangpan) Americante (United States) suakta hi ei cihkhiatna - အေမရကနႏငငဟာ (ၿဗတနႏငငႀကး၏လကေအာကမ) လြတလပေရးရၿပဆတာက ဖြငဆေျပာျပသည

9. What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?

Suahtakna Thutangkopi in hong phal hamphatna thunihte bang a hia? လြတလပေရးေၾကညာစာတမးတြငပါေသာ အခြငအေရးႏစခသည ဘာလ - Life - Nuntak khuasakna - အသကရငရပတညခြင

- Liberty - Kiphalna - လြတလပခြင

- Pursuit of happiness - Nopsak banga zontheihna - ေပာ႐ႊငမႈရာမးပငခြင

10. What is freedom of religion? Biakna Suahtakna in bang hiam? ဘာသာေရးလြတလပခြငဆတာဘာလ? - You can practice any religion, or not practice religion - Biakna khat peuhpeuh ah na utleh biathei/bialothei lel a omna - မမယၾကညရာ မညသညဘာသာကမဆ ကးကြယႏင/မကးကြယဘ ေနႏငသည



11. * What is the economic system in the United States? United States ah kizang neih-le-lam,silh-le-teen khantohna (sipuazi paizia) ah bangdan in pai hiam? အေမရကနႏငင၏စးပြားေရးစနစသညဘာလ? - Capitalist economy - Aziansian sanit (Sumneite bulphuh) paizia - အရငးရငစးပြားေရးစနစ

- Market economy - Sumzuaknamun thupitsakna (Zaykuat sipuazi) - ေစးကြကစးပြားေရးစနစ

12. What is the “rule of law”?

Upadi tawh ki-uk cih bang hiam? ဥပေဒအပခပမႈဆသညမာ ဘာလ? - Everyone must follow the law. - Mikim in upadi zui/mang ding - လတငး တရားဥပေဒကလကနာရမည

- Leaders must obey the law. - Makaite in zong upadi zui/mang ding - ေခါငးေဆာငမားသည တရားဥပေဒနာခရမည - Government must obey the law. - Kumpi in zong upadi zui/mang ding - အစးရသည တရားဥပေဒက နာခရမည - No one is above the law. - Kuamahpeuh upadi huamkhakloh omtuansaklo ding - မညသမ တရားဥပေဒအထကတြငမရေစရ



B.B.B.B. System of GovernmentSystem of GovernmentSystem of GovernmentSystem of Government KiKiKiKi----ukna Kumpi kilamziaukna Kumpi kilamziaukna Kumpi kilamziaukna Kumpi kilamzia အစးရဖြ႕စညးမႈပစအစးရဖြ႕စညးမႈပစအစးရဖြ႕စညးမႈပစအစးရဖြ႕စညးမႈပစ

13. * Name one branch or part of the government?

Ki-ukna Kumpi kilamzia ah akihel ahiang thupi khat min pulak sin aw. အစးရ၏ဌါနဆငရာအစတအပငးတစခက ေဖၚျပပါ - Congress - Hluttaw - ကြနဂရက/လႊတေတာ

- Legislative - Upadi bawlna - ဥပေဒျပေရး

- President - President - သမၼတ

- Executive - Thuvaanpite - အပခပေရး - The courts - Thukhenzumte - တရား႐းမား

- Judicial - Thukhenmangte - တရားစရငေရး

14. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?

Tua Ki-ukna ah ahiang khat in aana aneihluatloh nading in bangci ki-gak hiam? အစးရဌါနတစခက အာဏာပ၍လႊမးမးမႈမရရန မညသညအရာက ထနးထားသနညး? - Checks and balances - Ki-etcikna tawh - ခနခြငလာညႏႈငးမႈစနစ

- Separation of powers - Aana hawm/khenna tawh - အာဏာခြေ၀မႈစနစ

15. Who is in charge of the executive branch?

A thuneipi pen kua ahiam? အပခပေရးဌါန၏ အႀကးအကသည မညသနညး? - The president - President - ႏငငေတာသမၼတ



16. Who makes federal laws? Federal ki-ukna upadi kua in geel hiam? ဖယဒရယဥပေဒက မညသေရးဆြသနညး? - Congress - Hlutdaw - ကြနဂရကအဖြ႕

- Senate and House (of Representatives) - Pyine Kusale Amat leh Taangmi Kusale - အထကလႊတေတာ ႏင ေအာကလႊတေတာ

- (US or national) legislature - Gam ahihkeh Amyotha Upadi bawl Hluttaw - (အေမရကန သ႔မဟတ အမးသား) ဥပေဒျပအဖြ႕

17. * What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?

U.S Congress (Hluttaw) ah dawl nihte bang hiam? အေမရကနကြနဂရကအဖြ႕၏အပငးႏစပငးသည ဘာလ? - The Senate and House(of Representatives) - Pyine Hluttaw leh Taangmi Hluttaw - အထကလႊတေတာႏင ေအာကလႊတေတာ (ကယစားလယမား)

18. How many U.S. Senators are there?

Pyine Amat (Senator) bangzah om hiam? အေမရကနအထကလႊတေတာ ဘယႏစေယာကရသလ? - One hundred (100) - Za khat (100) - တစရာ (၁၀၀)

19. We elect a U.S.Senator for how many years?

Senator khat in kum bangzah sem dingin kiteel ahia? အေမရကနအထကလႊတေတာအမတတစေယာက၏ အေရြးခယခရမႈသကတမးဟာ ဘယႏစႏစလ? - Six (6) - Kum guk (6) - ေျခာကႏစ (၆)



20. * Who is one of your state’s U.S. Senators now? Tulaitak in no Pyine (State) ah Hluttaw (Senator)amat khat kua hiam? သငျပညနယ၏လႊတေတာအမတတစဥးသည မညသလ? - Answer will vary. [District of Columbia residents and residents of U.S. territories should

answer that D.C. (or the territory where the applicant lives)has no U.S. Senators.] - Dawnna atuamtuam suak ding.(District of Columbia-DC ateengte in bel neilo) - အေျဖတစခႏငတစခ တညမညမဟတပါ။ [District of Columbia-D.C. ေဒသတြငေနထငသမား

အတြက လႊတေတာအမတမရပါ။]

21. The House of Representatives has how many voting members? Taangmi Hluttaw (House of Representatives) ah member mi bangzah kiteel hiam? ေအာကလႊတေတာတြင မေပးႏငသအဖြ႕၀င ဘယႏစဥးရပါသလ? - Four hundred thirty-five (435) - zali sawmthum nga (435) - ေလးရာသးဆယငါးေယာက (၄၃၅)

22. We elect a U.S.Representative for how many years?

U.S. Taangmi Hluttaw kusale khat kum bangzah sem dingin kiteel hiam? ေအာကလႊတေတာအမတတစဥး၏ အေရြးခယခရမႈသကတမးဟာ ဘယႏစႏစလ? - Two (2) - Kumnih (2) - ႏစႏစ (၂)

23. Name your U.S.Representative.

No ii Taangmi Hluttaw Kusale kua hiam? သငျပညနယ၏ေအာကလႊတေတာနာမညေဖၚျပပါ။ - Answers will vary. [Residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or Resident

Commissioners may provide the name of that Delegate of Commissioner. Also acceptable is any statement that the territory has no (voting) Representatives in congress.]

- Dawnna atuamtuam suak ding (Me khia khaloten neilo ahihteh Menzipa –Commissioner pa min genthei)

- ျပညနယတစခႏငတစခ အေျဖ တညမညမဟတပါ။ [မေပးကယစားလယ သ႔မဟတ ဌါေန ေကာမရငနာ မရသညေဒသမားတြင ေနထငသမားသည မမတ႔ ကယစားလယေကာမရငနာ၏ အမညက ေျဖဆႏငသည။ သ႔မဟတ ကယစားျပအမတမရပါဟ ေျဖဆလငလညး လကခႏင ပါသည၊]



24. Who does a U.S. Senator represent? U.S Pyine Hluttaw kusale khat in kuate ii taangmi ahihiam? အေမရကန အထကလႊတေတာအမတတစဥးသည မညသ႔က ကယစားျပပါသနညး? - All people of the state - Ama pyine(state) a om mi khempeuh - သကဆငရာျပညနယရ ျပညသအားလး

25. Why do some states have more Representatives than other states?

Banghang in State pawl khat ah Taangmi kusale adangte sangin tam zaw hiam? အဘယေၾကာင အခ႕ျပညနယမားတြင အျခားေသာျပညနယမားထက ေအာကလႊတေတာ ကယစားလယ ပမ၍ရရပါသနညး? - (Because of) the state’s population - Amau pyine ah miphazah tawh kisai hang - မမျပညနယ၏လဥးေရေၾကာင၊

- (Because) they have more people - Amau pyine ah mipibup atamzawk hang - မမတ႔ျပညနယတြင လဥးေရပမမားေသာေၾကာင၊

- (because) some states have more people - Pyine khat leh khat ah miphazah akibatlohna hang hi - အခ႕ျပညနယမားတြင လဥးေရပမမားေသာေၾကာင

26. We elect a President for how many years?

President in kum bangtan sem dingin kiteel ahihiam? သမၼတတစဥး၏သကတမးသည ဘယႏစႏစလ? - Four (4) - Kum li (4) - ေလးႏစ (၄)

27. * In what month do we vote for President?

President kiteel hun bang kha hiam? သမၼတက မညသညလတြင မေပးေရြးခယပါသနညး? - November - ႏ၀ငဘာလ



28. * What is the name of the President of the United States now? Tulaitak United States ii President (Thamada) min kua hiam? ယခလကရ အေမရကနသမၼတ၏နာမညသညအဘယနညး? - Barack Obama - Obama - ဘားရက အဘားမား

29. What is the name of the Vice President of the United States now?

Tulaitak United States ii Vice President (Thamada azom pa) min bang hiam? ယခလကရ ဒ-အေမရကနသမၼတ၏နာမညသည အဘယနညး? - Joseph R.Biden, Jr. - Joe Biden - Biden - ဂးဇကဘငဒင

30. If the President can no longer serve, who becomes President?

President in sem thei nonlo hileh kua President suak ding hiam? သမၼတ တာ၀နမထမးေဆာငႏငေတာပါက မညသဆကလကထမးေဆာငမညနညး? - The Vice-president - President zompa - ဒ-သမၼတ

31. If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President? President leh Vice President in semthei nonlo hileh kua President suak ding hiam? သမၼတ ႏင ဒ-သမၼတတ႔ တာ၀နမထမးေဆာငႏငပါက မညသသမၼတျဖစမညနညး? - The Speaker of the House - Hluttaw Okkathah Pa - ေအာကလႊတေတာဥကဌ

32. Who is the Commander in Chief of the military?

Galkap lam ah a uk alian pen kua ahihiam? စစတပ၏စစေသနာပတခပသည မညသနညး? - The President - President pa - သမၼတ



33. Who signs bills to become laws? Upadi kigeel akipsak nading in kua in letmat thuh hiam? ဥပေဒမၾကမးက ဥပေဒျဖစရန မညသက အတညျပလကမတထးသနညး? - The President - President pa - သမၼတ

34. Who vetoes bills?

Kua in Upadi kigeel khat nial thei hiam? မညသက ဥပေဒမၾကမးက ဗတအာဏာျဖင ပယခႏငသနညး? - The President - President pa - သမၼတ

35. What does the President’s Cabinet do?

President ii vuanzite in bang sem uh hiam? သမၼတ၏အစးရ၀နႀကးမားအဖြ႕သည မညသညတာ၀နထမးေဆာငပါသနညး? - Advises the President - President pa tungah thuko/puak ding - သမၼတက အႀကဥာဏေပးသည



36. What are two Cabinet-level positions? Vuanzi za panmun nih bang hiam? အစးရ၀နႀကးအဖြ႕ႏငတနးတ ရာထးႏစခသည အဘယနညး? - Secretary of Agriculture - Lokho (Agriculture) Vuanzi - စကပးေရး ၀နႀကး

- Secretary of Commerce - Sumbawlnalam (Commerce) Vuanzi

- ကနသြယေရး ၀နႀကး

- Secretary of Defense

- Gamhutna Vuanzi

- ကာကြယေရး ၀နႀကး

- Secretary of Education

- Pilsinna Vuanzi

- ပညာေရး ၀နႀကး

- Secretary of Energy

- Meitha (Energy) Vuanzi

- စြမးအင ၀နႀကး

- Secretary of Health and Human Services

- Cidamna leh Mihingte Nasepna Vuanzi

- ကနးမာေရးႏင လမႈ၀နေဆာငေရး ၀နႀကး

- Secretary of Homeland Security

- Gamsung humbitna Vuanzi

- ျပညတြငးလၿခေရး ၀နႀကး

- Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

- Inn leh khuapi khantohna Vuanzi( Housing and Urban Development)

- အမယာႏင ၿမ႕ျပဖြ႕ၿဖးေရး ၀နႀကး



36.

- Secretary of the Interior

- Pyithezi Vuanzi (Interior)

- ျပညထေရး ၀နႀကး

- Secretary of Labor

- Nasepna lam Vuanzi

- အလပသမား ၀နႀကး

- Secretary of State

- Gamdang Vuanzi

- ႏငငျခားေရး ၀နႀကး

- Secretary of Transportation

- Puhsaungzi Vuanzi (Transport)

- သယယပ႔ေဆာငေရး ၀နႀကး

- Secretary of the Treasury

- Sumkeem Vuanzi

- ဘ႑ာေရး ၀နႀကး

- Secretary of Veterans Affairs

- Galkapluite/Pensente Vuanzi

- စစမႈထမးေဟာငးေရးရာ ၀နႀကး

- Attorney General

- Sitnichoh zum

- ႏငငေတာေရ႕ေနခပ

- Vice President

- President zom pa

- ဒတယ သမၼတ



37. What does the judicial branch do? Thukhen mang in bang sem hiam? တရားစရငေရးဌါနက မညသညအရာကလပေဆာငပါသလ? - Reviews laws - Upadi enphaphakik - ဥပေဒမားက ျပနလညသးသပသည

- Explains laws - Upadi telgenkhia - ဥပေဒမားက အဓပၸါယဖြငဆ

- Resolves disputes(disagreements) - Kinialtheihnate lemtuah - အျငငးပြားမႈ (သေဘာထားကြလြမႈ)မားက ေျဖရငး

- Decides if a law goes against the Constitution - Upadi leh Gamki-ukna Thukhun kikeelkite khentat’

- ဥပေဒတစခသည ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပအေျခခဥပေဒႏင ဆန႔ကငမႈ ရမရ ဆးျဖတ

38. What is the highest court in the United States? United States ah thukhen zum a sang pen bang hiam? အေမရကနႏငင၏ အျမငဆးတရား႐းသည အဘယနညး? - The Supreme Court - Tazazungchoh - တရား႐းခပ

39. How many justices are on the Supreme Court?

Supreme Court ah Thukhen Mang bangzah om hiam? တရား႐းခပတြင တရားသႀကးမညမရပါသနညး? - Nine (9) - Kua (9) - ကးေယာက (၉)



40. Who is the Chief Justice of the United States now? Tulaitak United States ah Thukhenmangpi kua hiam? ယခလကရ အေမရကနႏငင၏ တရားသႀကးခပသည မညသနညး? - John Roberts (John G. Roberts, Jr.) - John Roberts (John G. Roberts, Jr.) - ဂၽြနေရာဘတစ (ဂၽြန ဂ ေရာဘတစ)

41. Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of

the federal government? Gamki-ukna Thukhunpi nuai ah aana neihna Gambup Kumpi (Federal Government) in nei hi. Gambup Kumpi neihtheih aana khat bang hiam? ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပအေျခခဥပေဒအရ ဖယဒရယအစးရတြင လပပငခြငအာဏာအခ႕ရပါသည။ ထအာဏာမားအနကမ တစခကေဖၚျပပါ။ - To print money - Sum khenkhiasak - ေငြစကပႏပထတေ၀ပငခြင

- To declare war - Galsim ding khensat - ျပညပႏငငအားစစေၾကညာပငခြင

- To create an army - Galkap phuansak

- စစတပဖြ႕စညးပငခြင

- To make treaties

- Gamdang tawh thukimna laipi bawl

- ျပညပႏငငႏငစာခပခပဆပငခြင



42. Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states?

Gamki-ukna Thukhunpi nuai ah septheih aana neihna pyinete ah kipia hi. Tua aana khat bang

ahi hiam?

ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပအေျခခဥပေဒအရ ျပညနယအစးရတြင လပပငခြငအာဏာအခ႕ရပါသည။

ထအာဏာမားအနကမ တစခကေဖၚျပပါ။

- Provide schooling and education

- Sang leh pilsinna vaihawm

- စာသငေကာငးမားႏင ပညာေရးကစၥမားေဆာငရြကျခငး

- Provide protection (police)

- Palik nei thei

- ကာကြယေရး(ရ) ကစၥမားေဆာငရြကျခငး

- Provide safety (fire departments)

- Meiphelhna leh humbitna vaihawm thei

- လၿခေရး(မးသတဌါနမား) ကစၥမားေဆာငရြကျခငး

- Give a driver’s license

- Mawtawhawl letmat piathei

- ယာဥေမာငးလငစငျပလပေပးျခငး

- Approve zoning and land use

- Gam leh lei zatna vaihawmthei

- ဇအပငးအျခား ႏင ေျမယာမားသတမတေပးျခငး

43. Who is the Governor of your state now? No pyine aa alianpen Governor tulaitakin kua hiam? သငျပညနယ၏လကရအစးရအႀကးအက(governor)သည မညသလ? - Answers will vary. [District of Columbia residents should answer that D.C. does not have a

Governor.] - A dawnna a tuamtek hi ding hi. DC aa teengte in Governor neilo. - ျပညနယတစခႏငတစခ အေျဖမတပါ။ ကလဘယာခ႐ငတြငေနထငသမားအတြက (governor)မရဟ

ေျဖရမည။



44. * What is the capital of your state? No pyine khuapi (myodaw) bang hiam? သငျပညနယ၏ၿမ႕ေတာအမညသည အဘယနညး? - Answers will vary [District of Columbia residents should answer that D.C. is not a state and

does not have a capital. Residents of U.S. territories should name the capital of the territory.]

- A dawnna kibanglo ding. (DC ateengte in myodaw nei tuanlo) - ျပညနယတစခႏငတစခ အေျဖမတပါ။ [D.C. တြငေနထငသမားအေနျဖင D.C. သည ျပညနယတစခ

မဟတ၊ ၿမ႕ေတာလညးမရဟ ေျဖရမည၊ အေမရကနအထးေဒသမားတြင ေနထငသမားအေနျဖင မမတ႕သကဆငရာေဒသ၏ ၿမ႕ေတာအမညက ေျဖဆရမည။]

45. * What are the two major political parties in the United States?

USA ah naingnganzi party lian nih bang ahi hiam? အေမရကနႏငင၏ အဓက ႏငငေရးပါတႀကး ႏစခကေဖၚျပပါ။ - Democratic and Republican - Democratic leh Republican - ဒမကရကတစႏင ရပတဘလကင

46. What is the political party of the President now?

Tu laitak aa President pa ii naingnganzi party min bang hiam? ယခလကရသမၼတဟာ ဘယပါတကလ? - Democratic (party) - Democratic Party - ဒမကရကတစ(ပါတ)

47. What is the name of the Speaker of the House of Representatives now? Gambup Hlutdaw Okkathah kua hiam? ယခလကရ ေအာကလႊတေတာ ဥကဌသည မညသနညး? - (John) Boehner - (John) Boehner - (ဂၽြန)ေဘနာ



C: C: C: C: Rights and ResponsibilitiesRights and ResponsibilitiesRights and ResponsibilitiesRights and Responsibilities Hamphatna Ngahtheih thute leh I TavuanteHamphatna Ngahtheih thute leh I TavuanteHamphatna Ngahtheih thute leh I TavuanteHamphatna Ngahtheih thute leh I Tavuante အခြငအေရးႏငတာအခြငအေရးႏငတာအခြငအေရးႏငတာအခြငအေရးႏငတာ၀၀၀၀နမားနမားနမားနမား

48. There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them. Gamki-ukna Thukhunpi ah li veitak kipuahphatna ah kuate in mee piathei dingte cih kilemthak hi. Tua lak ah khat gen in. ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပအေျခခဥပေဒတြင မေပးပငခြငရသႏင ပတသကေသာ ျပငဆငျဖညစြကခက ေလးခ ရပါသည။ ၎တ႔အနကမ တစခကေဖၚျပပါ။ - Citizens eighteen (18) and older (can vote). - Gammi kum 18 a pha leh a tungsiahte - တစဆယရစ(၁၈)ႏစႏင အထကရသ ႏငငသားမား (မေပးႏငသည)

- You don’t have to pay (a poll tax) to vote. - Mee piak theih nading sumpiak kullo. - မေပးရနအတြက (မ႐ခြန) ေပးရနမလပါ။

- Any citizen can vote. (Women and men can vote.) - Numei pasal a kuapeuh in mee piathei - မညသညအေမရကနႏငငသားမဆ မေပးႏငသည။ (ကား/မ မေရြး မေပးႏငသည)

- A male citizen of any race (can vote). - Kua minam hitaleh gammi pasal khatpeuh in mee piathei - မညသညမးႏြယဇစျမစမဆငးသကလာသည ႏငငသားေယာက ၤားမဆ(မေပးႏငသည)

49. * What is one responsibility that is only for United States citizens?

United States gammi bek ii tavuan khat bang hiam? အေမရကနႏငငသားမားသာထမးေဆာငရမညတာ၀နတစခကေဖၚျပပါ။ - Serve on a jury - Thukhen semthei - တရားသႀကးအဖြ႕တြင အဖြ႕၀ငအျဖစေဆာငရြကျခငး

- Vote in a federal election - Federal (Pyine) kiteelna ah mee piathei - ဖယဒရယေရြးေကာကပြတြငမေပးျခငး



50. Name one right only for United States citizens. United States gammi khat ii ngahtheih hamphatna khat bang hiam? အေမရကနႏငငသားမားသာ ပငဆငသည အခြငအေရးတစခက ေဖၚျပပါ။ - Vote in a federal election - Federal kiteelna ah thu neithei - ဖယဒရယေရြးေကာကပြတြငမေပးပငခြငရျခငး

- Run for federal office - Federal ah meekuang lui thei - ဖယဒရယအစးရ ရာထးအတြက ယဥၿပငေရြးခယခပငခြငရျခငး

51. What are two rights of everyone living in the United States? United States ah a teeng khempeuh ii ngahtheih hamphatna thu nih bang hiam? အေမရကနႏငငတြင မတငးေနထငသတငး၏ အခြငအေရးႏစရပကေဖၚျပပါ။ - Freedom of expression - Suakta takin thu pulaakthei - လြတလပစြာ ထတေဖၚခြင

- Freedom of speech - Suakta takin thu genthei - လြတလပစြာ ေျပာေရးဆခြင

- Freedom of assembly - Suakta takin kikhaikhawm thei - လြတလပစြာ စ႐းပငခြင

- Freedom to petition the government - Suakta takin kumpi tungah lungkimlohna azukhan(dong) thei - အစးရထ လြတလပစြာ အယခႏငခြင - Freedom of worship - Suakta takin biakpiakna nei thei - လြတလပစြာ ကးကြယခြင

- The right to bear arms - Suakta takin thau tawi thei - လကနကကငေဆာငခြင



52. What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance? Zahtak piakding Kamciam (Pledge of Alegiance) I neih ciang’ bang tungah thumaan citak ding I hiam?

ကၽြႏပတ႔ ‘ကမးသစၥာ’ရြတဆေသာအခါ ဘယအရာက ထတေဖၚသစၥာျပသလ? - The United States - United States gam tungah - အေမရကနႏငငေတာ

- The flag - Gam ii alan tungah - ႏငငေတာအလ

53. What is one promise you make when you become a United States citizen?

United States gammi khat na suah ciangin na kam kiciamna khat bang ahi hiam? အေမရကနႏငငသားတစေယာကျဖစလာေသာအခါ သငျပရေသာ ကတသစၥာ တစခက ေဖၚျပပါ။ - Give up loyalty to other countries - Gamdangte tungah muanna leh suanna nei nawnlo ding - အျခားေသာတငးျပညမားက သစၥာချခငးအား ႐ပသမးပါမည

- Defend the Constitution and laws of the United States - United States ii Gamki-ukna Thukhun leh Upadite humbit ding - အေမရကနႏငင၏ ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပအေျခခဥပေဒ ႏင ဥပေဒအားလးအား ကာကြယ

ေစာငေရာကပါမည

- Obey the laws of the United States - United States ii Upadi zui ding - အေမရကနႏငင၏ဥပေဒမားအား ေလးစားလကနာပါမည

- Serve in the U.S. military (if needed) - U.S. galkap ah sem ding (akisap leh) - (လအပပါက) အေမရကနႏငငစစတပတြင အမႈထမးပါမည

- Serve (do important work for) the nation (if needed) - Gam ading nasep thupi sem ding (akisap leh) - (လအပပါက) ႏငငေတာအတြက (အေရးႀကးေသာအမႈ)မားက ထမးေဆာငပါမည

- Be loyal to the United States - United States gam tungah citak muanhuai ding - အေမရကနႏငငအား သစၥာေစာငသပါမည



54. * How old do citizens have to be to vote for President? President a kiteelna ah mee pia theidingte kum bangzah pha ding hiam? သမၼတေရြးေကာကပြတြင မေပးရနအတြက ႏငငသားမားသည အသကမညမရရမညနညး? - Eighteen (18) and older - Kum 18 leh a tung siah - တစဆယရစ (၁၈)ႏစ ႏင အထက

55. What are two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy?

American te in Democracy vaipuak ah kiheltheih nading nam nih bang ahi hiam? အေမရကနႏငငသားမား ဒမကေရစစနစက ကငသးႏငသည ပစ ႏစမး က ေဖၚျပပါ၊ - Vote - Meepia - မေပးျခငး

- Join a political party - Naingnganzi party khat peuhpeuh ah kihel - ပါတတစခခတြင ပါတ၀ငျဖစျခငး - Help with a campaign - Mee suaina ah huh - မဆြယလႈပရားမႈတစခတြင ပါ၀ငကညျခငး

- Join a civic group - Civil kipawlna khat ah kizom - အရပဘက အဖြ႕အစညးတစခတြင ပးေပါငးပါ၀ငျခငး

- Join a community group - Veeng kipawlna ah kihel - အဖြ႕အစညးတစခတြင ပးေပါငးပါ၀ငျခငး

- Give an elected official your opinion on an issue - Thupi khat tawh kisai na ngaihsutna hoihte akiteel upa khatpeuh tungah pulakthei - လထကယစားလယတစဥးအား ကစၥရပတစခအေပၚ သင၏ထငျမငခကက တငျပျခငး

- Call Senators and Representatives - Hluttaw amat leh kusale te kiang hawh zeel - အထကလႊတေတာအမတမားႏင ေအာကလႊတေတာအမတမားအား ဆကသြယစကားေျပာျခငး



55. - Publicly support or oppose an issue or policy - Thupiang thu leh la khat na deihna leh na nialna mipi maiah gen ngam - ကစၥတစခ သ႔မဟတ မ၀ါဒတစခက ပြငလငးစြာေထာကချခငး သ႔မဟတ ကန႕ကြကျခငး - Run for office - Zum khat peuh ah ulianna semding kiteelthei, kihel thei - ရာထးေနရာအတြက ယဥၿပငအေရြးချခငး

- Write to a newspaper - Tadensa thukizaksakna ah lai at thei - သတငးစာတြင ေရးသားထတေဖၚျခငး

56. * When is the last day you can send in federal income tax forms?

Pyine akhun(tax) piak ding a ni nunung bang ni hiam? ဖယဒရယ၀ငေငြအခြနေဆာငသည ပစမားက ဘယေန႔ေနာကဆးထား၍ ပ႔ေပးႏငသလ? - April 15 - April 15 ni - ဧၿပလ ၁၅ ရက

57. When must all men register for the Selective Service?

Galkap nasep peello in sem dingte kum bangzah kikal hiding hiam? အမးသားအားလး ‘အေရးေပၚစစသားစေဆာငးမႈဌါန’တြင ဘယအခနမာ စာရငးသြငးရမလ? - At age eighteen (18) - Kum 18 phak ah - အသက ဆယရစ (၁၈) ႏစတြင

- Between eighteen (18) and twenty-six (26) - Kum 18 leh 26 kikal ah - အသကဆယရစ (၁၈) ႏစ ႏင ႏစဆယေျခာက (၂၆)ႏစၾကား



AMERICAN HISTORYAMERICAN HISTORYAMERICAN HISTORYAMERICAN HISTORY AMERICAN TANGTHUAMERICAN TANGTHUAMERICAN TANGTHUAMERICAN TANGTHU

အေမရကနႏငငသမငးေရးဆငရာမားအေမရကနႏငငသမငးေရးဆငရာမားအေမရကနႏငငသမငးေရးဆငရာမားအေမရကနႏငငသမငးေရးဆငရာမား

A:A:A:A: Colonial Period and IndependenceColonial Period and IndependenceColonial Period and IndependenceColonial Period and Independence Gamkekte hun leh Suahtakna ngah dongGamkekte hun leh Suahtakna ngah dongGamkekte hun leh Suahtakna ngah dongGamkekte hun leh Suahtakna ngah dong ကလနေခတကလနေခတကလနေခတကလနေခတ ႏငႏငႏငႏင လြတလပေရးႀကးပမးမႈေခတလြတလပေရးႀကးပမးမႈေခတလြတလပေရးႀကးပမးမႈေခတလြတလပေရးႀကးပမးမႈေခတ

58. What is one reason colonists came to America?

Gamdang mite America ah hong paina ahang khat bang hiam? နယေျမသစရာေဖြသမား အေမရကားသ႔လာေရာကျခငး အေၾကာငးရငးတစခဟာ ဘာလ? - Freedom - Suaktanuam - လြတလပမႈ

- Political liverty - Naingnganzi sepna ah suakta - ႏငငေရးလြတလပမႈ

- Religious freedom - Biakna ah suahtakna - ဘာသာေရးလြတလပမႈ

- Economic opportunity - Nuntaknading baih - စးပြားေရးအခြငအလမး

- Practice their religion - Amau biaknop biakna peuhpeuh biathei - ဘာသာေရးယၾကညကးကြယမႈ

- Escape persecution - Kigawtna/kibawlsiatna omlo - ဖႏပမႈမ လြတေျမာကလမႈ



59. Who lived in American before the Europeans arrived? Europe mite hong tun ma in America ah kuate teengkhin uh hiam? ဥေရာပသားမား အေမရကားသ႔ ေရာကမလာခင အေမရကားမာ ဘယသေတြ ေနထငၾကသလ? - American Indians - American Indians te - အေမရကနအငဒယနးမား

- Native Americans - Native American kici America ah a teengciilte - ဌါေနအေမရကနမား

60. What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?

Kua mite America ah sal in kizuak ahihiam? အေမရကနကေခၚလာၿပး ကၽြနမားအျဖစ ေရာငးစားခရသဟာ ဘယသေတြလ? - Africans - Africa gam pan mite - အာဖရကနမား

- People from Africa - Africa gam pan mite - အာဖရကတကသားမား

61. Why did the colonists fight the British?

America ah hong lalte in banghangin Mangkangte (British) do uh hiam? နယေျမသစရာေဖြသေတြဟာ ၿဗတသတ႔က ဘာေၾကာင ေတာလနခသလ? - Because of high taxes (taxation without representation) - Phiangsiah piak tamluat hang - အေကာကခြနႀကးေလးမႈေၾကာင (ကယစားျပခြငမရဘ အခြနေပးေနရျခငး)

- Because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering) - British galkapte amau gam ah a om hang - ၎တ႔၏အမမားတြင ၿဗတသစစသားမား ၀ငေရာကေနထငေသာေၾကာင

- Because they didn’t have self-government - Amau leh mau ki-uk ding kumpi a neih loh hang - ၎တ႔တြင ကယပငအစးရ မရေသာေၾကာင



62. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? Suahtaakna Thupulakkhiat kua in at ahihiam? လြတလပေရးေၾကညာစာတမးက မညသေရးသလ? - (Thomas) Jefferson - (Thomas) Jefferson - (ေသာမတစ) ဂကဖာဆင

63. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

Suahtaakna Thupulakkhiat cikni in kikipsak hiam? လြတလပေရးေၾကညာစာတမးက ဘယတနးက အတညျပသလ? - July 4, 1776 - July 4, 1776 - ၁၇၇၆ ခႏစ၊ ဇလငလ ၄ - ရက

64. There were 13 original states, Name three.

Gam kiphut tungin Pyine 13 om hi. Thum min pulak in. မလက ျပညနယေပါငး ၁၃-ခ ရသည။ သးခ၏အမညမားက ေဖၚျပပါ။ - New Hampshire - နယးဟမရငးယား - Delaware - ဒယလ၀ယယား - Massachusetts - မကဆာခးဆက - Maryland - ေမရလနး - Rhode Island - ႐ဒအငးလငး - Virginia - ဗာဂးနးယား - Connecticut - ကြနနကတကတ - North Carolina - ေျမာကကယ႐လငးနား - New York - နယးေယာက - South Carolina - ေတာငကယ႐လငးနား - New Jersey - နယးဂာဆ - Georgia - ေဂာဂယာ - Pennsylvania - ပငဆယလေဗးနးယား



65. What happened at the Constitutional Convention? Gamki-ukna Kikupna Khawmpi ah bang kisemkhia hiam? ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပအေျခခဥပေဒ ေရးဆြခသည ညလာခတြင ဘာျဖစခသလ? - The Constitution was written. - Gamki-ukna Thukhunpi kigelhkhia - ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပအေျခခဥပေဒ ေပၚေပါကခသည

- The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution. - Gamphutkhiacil Pate in Gamki-ukna Thukhunpi geel - တငးျပညျပဖခငႀကးမားက ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပအေျခခဥပေဒက ေရးဆြခသည

66. When was the Constitution written?

Gamki-ukna Thukhunpi (Constitution) cikkum in kigelh hiam? ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပအေျခခဥပေဒက ဘယတနးကေရးဆြခသလ? - 1787 - 1787 - ၁၇၈၇ ခႏစ

67. The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the

writers. Gamki-ukna Thukhunpi sungah Federal tawh ki-ukna ding apiangsak lai-geelte lak ah khat min gen in. ဖယဒရယေရးရာစာတမးမားက ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပအေျခခဥပေဒက အေထာကအပျပခတယ။ ဖယဒရယေရးရာစာတမးမားက ေရးသ တစဥး၏အမညက ေဖၚျပပါ။ - (James) Madison - (ဂမးစ) မယဒဆင - (Alexander) Hamilton - (အလကဇႏၵား) ဟယမလတန - (John) Jay - (ဂၽြန) ေဂး - Publius - ပဘလးယကစ



68. What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for? Benjamin Franklin aminthanna ahang khat gen in. ဘငဂမင ဖရငကလင၏ေကာၾကားမႈမားအနကတစခကေျပာပါ။ - U.S. diplomat - U.S. diplomat (Palai) - အေမရကနႏငင၏သတမန - Oldest member of the Constitutional Convention - Gamki-ukna Thukhun geelna ah a kum ham pen - ဖြ႕စညးအပခပပအေျခခဥပေဒေရးဆြသည ညလာခကယစားလယမားတြင အႀကးဆး

- First Postmaster General of the United States - U.S ah Postmaster General (Sadaih mang) amasa pen - အေမရကနႏငင၏ ပထမဆးစာတကမႉးခပ

- Writer of “Poor Richard’s Almanac” - “Poor Richard’s Almanac” kici laibu minthang gelhpa - “Poor Richard’s Almanac” စာအပကေရးသ

- Started the first free libraries - Sumpiakloh (akhonkhong) laibusaal masa pen apankhia pa - အခမစာအပငါးေသာ စာၾကညတကက စတငတညေထာငသ

69. Who is the “Father of Our Country”?

“Ih gam ii pa” kua hiam? ‘ကၽြႏပတ႔ႏငင၏ဖခငႀကး’ သည မညသနညး? - (George) Washington - (ေဂာခ) ၀ါရငတန

70. * Who was the first President?

President masa pen kua hiam? ပထမဆး သမၼတသည မညသလ? - (George) Washington - (ေဂာခ) ၀ါရငတန



B:B:B:B: 1800s1800s1800s1800s 1800 hun lai1800 hun lai1800 hun lai1800 hun lai ၁၈၀၀၁၈၀၀၁၈၀၀၁၈၀၀ ျပညႏစမားအတြငးက အျဖစအပကမားႏငပတ ျပညႏစမားအတြငးက အျဖစအပကမားႏငပတ ျပညႏစမားအတြငးက အျဖစအပကမားႏငပတ ျပညႏစမားအတြငးက အျဖစအပကမားႏငပတသက၍သက၍သက၍သက၍

71. What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?

1803 kum in United States in Piantit (France) te kiangpan bang gam lei ahi hiam? ၁၈၀၃ ခႏစမာ အေမရကနႏငငက ျပငသစထမ ၀ယယလကသညနယေျမဟာ ဘာလ? - The Louisiana Territory - Louisiana gam - လ၀စယားနား နယေျမ

72. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.

1800 hun lai in United States in a do gal khat min pulak in. ၁၈၀၀ ျပညႏစမားအတြငးက အေမရကနႏငင ပါ၀ငတကခကခသည စစပြ တစခကေျပာပါ။ - War of 1812 - 1812 kum Gal - ၁၈၁၂ ခႏစ စစပြ

- Mexican-American War - Mexican-American Gal - မကဆကန-အေမရကန စစပြ

- Civil War - Tual Gal - ျပညတြငးစစ

- Spanish-American War - Spanish-American Gal - စပန-အေမရကန စစပြ



73. Name the U.S. War between the North and the South. U.S. Saklam leh Khanglam kidona US galmin bang hiam? အေမရကနေျမာကပငးႏငေတာငပငး ျဖစပြားခသည စစပြက ေဖၚျပပါ။ - The Civil War - Tual Gal - အေမရကန ျပညတြငးစစ

- The War between the States - Pyine khat leh khat kikal kidona - ျပညနယမားအၾကား ျဖစပြားေသာစစပြ

74. Name one problem that led to the Civil War.

Tualgal a piangsak thubuai khat gen in. အေမရကနျပညတြငးစစက ျဖစေပၚေစေသာ ျပနာ တစခက ေဖၚျပပါ - Slavery - Sila vai - ကၽြနပငရငစနစ

- Economic reason - Neek leh dawn vai - စးပြားေရးျပနာမား

- States’ rights - Pyine te phattuam - ျပညနယအခြငအေရးဆငရာ ngahna vai ျပနာမား

75. * What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did? Abraham Lincoln ii sepkhiat athupi mahmah khat bang hiam? အဘရာဟင လငကြနး ေဆာငရြကခသည အေရးပါေသာကစၥ တစခဟာ ဘာလ? - Freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation) - Silate suakta sak (Silate Khahkhiatna Pulakkhiatna) - ကၽြနမားက ကၽြနဘ၀မ လြတလပခြငေပးျခငး (ကၽြနလြတေျမာကေရးေၾကညာခက)

- Saved (or preserved) the Union - Gambup kembit/humbit zo - အေမရကနျပညမႀကး ပေပာကမသြားေအာင ကယတင(ထနးသမး)ချခငး

- Led the United States during the Civil War - United States tualgal sung makaih - ျပညတြငးစစကာလအတြငး အေမရကနႏငငအား ဥးေဆာငႏငချခငး



76. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? Sila khahkhiatna Thupulakna (Emancipation Proclamation) in bang sem hiam? ‘ကၽြနလြတေျမာကေရးေၾကညာခက’ဆတာဘာလ။ ဘာလပခသလ? - Freed the slaves - Silate suakta sak - ကၽြနမားက လႊတေပးျခငး

- Freed slaves in the Confederacy - Kipawl Kithukimna tawh silate khahkhia - မဟာမတအပစမားမ ကၽြနမားက လႊတေပးျခငး

- Freed slaves in the Confederate states - Kipawlna a thukim gamte ah sila kikhahkhia - မဟာမတျပညနယမားမ ကၽြနမားက လႊတေပးျခငး

- Freed slaves in most Southern states - Khanglam gam khempeuh phial-ah sila kikhahkhiata - ေတာငပငးျပညနယအမားစမ ကၽြနမားက လႊတေပးျခငး

77. What did Susan B. Anthony do?

Susan B. Anthony in bang sem khia hiam? ဆဇန ဘ အနေထာန ဘာလပခသလ? - Fought for women’s rights - Numeite ngahding phattuamna phu - အမးသမးအခြငအေရးအတြက တကပြ၀ငခသည

- Fought for civil rights - Mipi ngahding phattuamnate phu - ႏငငသားအခြငအေရးအတြက တကပြ၀ငခသည



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78. * Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s. Kum 1900 huam sungah America in a galdo khat gen in. ၁၉၀၀ ျပညႏစမားအတြငးက အေမရကနႏငင တကခကခသည စစပြတစခ၏အမညကေဖၚျပပါ။ - World War I - Leitung Galpi Khatna - ပထမကမ ၻာစစ - World War II - Leitung Galpi Nihna - ဒတယကမ ၻာစစ

- Korea War - Korea Gal - ကးရးယားစစပြ

- Vietnam War - Vietnam Gal - ဗယကနမစစပြ

- (Persian) Gulf War - (Persian) Gulf (Pinlekuih) Gal - (ပါရနး)ပငလယေကြ႕စစ

79. Who was President during World War I?

Leitung Galpi Kido Masa hun lai in President kua ahi hiam? ပထမကမ ၻာစစအတြငးက အေမရကနသမၼတသည မညသနညး? - (Woodrow) Wilson - (၀ဒ႐း) ၀လဆင

80. Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?

Donghtuah Lianpi Hun leh Leitung Galpi Nihna kido hun in President kua ahi hiam? ဒတယကမ ၻာစစႏင မဟာစးပြားပကကပကာလအတြငးက အေမရကနသမၼတသည မညသနညး? - (Franklin) Roosevelt - (ဖရငကလင) ႐စဗလ



81. Who did the United States fight in World War II? Leitung Galpi Nihna hun lai in United States in kuate do hiam? အေမရကနႏငငသည ဒတယကမ ၻာစစအတြငး မညသညႏငငမားက တကခကခပါသလ? - Japan, Germany and Italy - Japan, Germany leh Italy - ဂပန၊ ဂာမဏ ႏင အတလႏငင

82. Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in? Eisenhower President a suahma in galkap mang General ahi hi. Bang gal do ahi hiam? အကစငေဟာငး၀ါး သည သမၼတမျဖစမ စစဗလခပျဖစခသည၊ မညသညစစပြတြင သပါ၀ငခပါသလ? - World War II - Leitung Galpi II - ဒတယကမ ၻာစစပြ

83. During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States? Cold War kici kilungsimneih gal kidona hun lai in United States in bang buaipih pen hiam? စစေအးတကပြကာလအတြငးက အေမရကနႏငင၏ အဓကစးရမေၾကာငၾကမႈသည မညသညအရာနညး?

- Communism - Communism kici Kawminit paizia vai - ကြနျမနစ၀ါဒ

84. What movement tried to end racial discrimination? Bang lungphona in minam kigimneihna beisak sawm hiam? လမးခြျခားမႈက မညသညလႈပရားမႈက အဆးသတရန ႀကးပမးခသလ? - Civil rights (movement) - Tualsung hamphatna (lungphona) - ႏငငသားအခြငအေရး (လႈပရားမႈ)

85. * What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?

Martin Luther King Jr, in bang semkhia hiam? မာတငလသာကငး ဘာလပခသလ? - Fought for civil rights - Tualsung hamphat nading vai phu - ႏငငသားအခြငအေရးအတြက တကပြ၀ငခသည

- Worked for equality for all Americans - American te khempeuh liangko kikim nading sem - အေမရကနႏငငသားအားလး၏ တနးတညမမႈအတြက လပေဆာငခသည



86. What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States? September 11, 2001 ni in United States ah bang thu lianpi piang ahi hiam? ၂၀၁၁ ခႏစ စကတငဘာလ ၁၁ ရကေန႕က အေမရကနႏငငတြင ျဖစပြားခေသာ အဓကျဖစရပႀကးသည

ဘာလ? - Terrorists attacked the United States. - Mi-ngongtatte (terrorists) in U.S. sim - အၾကမးဖကသမားမားက အေမရကနႏငငက တကခကခသည

87. Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.

[USCIS Officers will be supplied with a list of federally recognized American Indian tribes.] American Indian minam sungah nam khat gen in.

[USCIS Uliante kiangah kumpi ciapteh American Indian minamte min kigual om ding hi.] အေမရကနႏငငတြင ေနထငေသာ အေမရကနအငဒးယနးလမးႏြယတစခ၏အမညက ေဖၚျပပါ။

[USCIS အရာရမားထတြင ဖယဒရယအစးရအသအမတျပ အေမရကနအငဒးယနးလမးႏြယစမား၏ အမညစာရငးရပါမည။]

- Cherokee - ခယ႐က - Cheyenne - ႐ႈငအနး - Navajo - နယဗဂ - Arawak - အယရာ၀ါ(က) - Sioux - ဆး - Shawnee - ေရာနး - Chippewa - ခစပယ၀ါ - Mohegan - မေဟဂင - Choctaw - ေခာ(က)ေတာ - Huron - ဟရြန - Pueblo - ဖြယဘလ - Oneida - အႏငးဒါး - Apache - အပခ - Lakota - လကးတာ - Iroquois - အရာေကြး - Crow - ခ႐း - Creek - ခရ(က) - Teton - တတင - Blackfeet - ဘလကဖ(တ) - Hopi - ဟပ - Seminole - ဆယမႏလ - Inuit - အငႏ(တ)



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ႏငငေတာသားႏငပတသက၍သထားသငေသာအေၾကာငးခငးရာမားႏငငေတာသားႏငပတသက၍သထားသငေသာအေၾကာငးခငးရာမားႏငငေတာသားႏငပတသက၍သထားသငေသာအေၾကာငးခငးရာမားႏငငေတာသားႏငပတသက၍သထားသငေသာအေၾကာငးခငးရာမား A: A: A: A: GeographyGeographyGeographyGeography GamthuGamthuGamthuGamthu ပထပထပထပထ၀၀၀၀၀၀၀၀ငႏငစပဆငေငႏငစပဆငေငႏငစပဆငေငႏငစပဆငေသာ ေမးခြနးမားသာ ေမးခြနးမားသာ ေမးခြနးမားသာ ေမးခြနးမား

88. Name one of the two longest rivers in the United States.

United States gam ah a sau penpen gunpi nih lak ah khat min gen in. အေမရကနႏငငမာရတ အရညလားဆးျမစႏစစငးအနကမ တစခ၏အမညကေဖၚျပပါ။ - Missouri (River) - Missouri (Gun) - မစဇရ (ျမစ)

- Mississippi (River) - Mississippi (Gun) - မစၥစစပ(ျမစ)

89. What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?

United States ii nitumna lam ah om tuipi bang hiam? အေမရကနႏငင၏ အေနာကဖကကမး႐းတနးတြင မညသညသမဒၵရာ ရပါသလ? - Pacific (Ocean) - Pacific (Tuipi) - ပစဖတ(သမဒၵရာ)

90. What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States?

United States ii nisuahna lam ah om tuipi banghiam? အေမရကနႏငင၏ အေရ႕ဖကကမး႐းတနးတြင မညသညသမဒၵရာရပါသလ? - Atlantic (Ocean) - Atlantic (Tuipi) - အတလနတတ (သမဒၵရာ)



91. Name one U.S. territory. U.S. ii uk gam lak ah khat gen in. အေမရကနႏငငပငနက ေဒသႀကးတစခ၏အမညကေဖၚျပပါ။ - Puerto Rico - ျပတရက - U.S. Virgin Islands - ယအကစဗားဂငးကၽြနးစ - American Samoa - အေမရကနဆေမာ၀ါ - Northern Mariana Islands - ေျမာကပငး မာရယားနားကၽြနးစ - Guam - ဂ၀မ

92. Name one state that borders Canada.

Canada tawh kigamgi pyine min khat gen in. ကေနဒါႏငငႏငထစပေနေသာ ျပညနယတစခ၏အမညကေဖၚျပပါ။ - Maine - မနး - Minnesota - မငနဆးတား - New Hampshire - နယးဟမ႐ႈငးယား - North Dakota - ေျမာကဒါကတာ - Vermont - ဗားေမာက - Montana - မြနတားနား - New York - နယးေယာက - Idaho - အငဒါဟ - Pennsylvania - ပငဆယလေဗးနးယား - Washington - ၀ါရငတန - Ohio - အဟငးအး - Alaska - အလကစကား - Michigan - မခဂန

93. Name one state that borders Mexico. Mexico gam tawh kigamgi pyine min khat gen in. မကဆကႏငငႏင နယနမတထစပေနေသာ ျပညနယတစခ အမညက ေဖၚျပပါ။ - California - ကယလဖးနးယား - Arizona - အာရဇးနား - New Mexico - နယးမကဆက - Texas - တကဆပ

94. * What is the capital of the United States?

United States ii gam-ukna khuapi min bang hiam? အေမရကနႏငင၏ၿမ႕ေတာအမညဟာဘာလ? - Washington, D.C. - ၀ါရငတန ဒစ



95. * Where is the Statue of Liberty? Suahtakna milimpi koi ah om hiam? လြတလပေရး႐ပတသည မညသညေနရာတြင ရပါသနညး? - New York (Harbor) - New York (Tembaw kholna ah) - နယးေယာက(ဆပကမး)

- Liberty Island

[Also acceptable are New Jersey, near New York City and on the Hudson (River).]

- Liberty Tuikulh tungah

[New Jersey, New York khuapi kiang leh Hudson gun tungah zong kici thei hi.

- ေလဘာတကၽြနး

[နယးဂာဆ၊ နယးေယာကစးတးအနး ဟတဆင(ျမစ)ေပၚတြင ဟ၍လညးေျဖဆႏငပါသည။]



B: B: B: B: SymbolsSymbolsSymbolsSymbols Ciaptehna limCiaptehna limCiaptehna limCiaptehna lim ကယစားျပ သေကၤတမားကယစားျပ သေကၤတမားကယစားျပ သေကၤတမားကယစားျပ သေကၤတမား

96. Why does the flag have 13 stripes? Banghang in US alan ah agial 13 om hiam? အလေတာတြင အဘယေၾကာင အစငးေၾကာငး ၁၃ ခ ရရပါသလ? - Because there were 13 original colonies - Akipatcil in pyine 13 tawh kipan ahih hang - အဘယေၾကာငဆေသာ မလ ၌ နယပယေဒသ ၁၃ ခရခေသာေၾကာငျဖစသည။

- Because the stripes represent the original colonies - A gial te in zong pyine khatta taang a ding lahna hi - အစငးေၾကာငးမားသည မလနယပယေဒသမားက ကယစားျပေသာေၾကာင၊

97. * Why does the flag have 50 stars?

Banghang in US alan ah aksi 50 tuang hiam? အလေတာတြင အဘယေၾကာင ၾကယ အလး ၅၀ ရရပါသနညး? - Because there is one star for each state - Aksi khat ciang Pyine khat taang a ding - ၾကယတစလးသည ျပညနယတစခစအတြက ျဖစေသာေၾကာင၊

- Because each star represents a state - Aksi khat in Pyine khat taang suak - ၾကယတစလးစသည ျပညနယတစခစက ကယစားျပေသာေၾကာင၊ - Because there are 50 states - Pyine 50 a om hang - ျပညနယ ၅၀ ရေသာေၾကာင၊

98. What is the name of the national anthem?

Gam Lapi min bang hiam? ႏငငေတာသခငးအမညဟာဘာလ? - The Star Spangled Banner - Aksi Tediamdiam Dialkhai - စတားစပငဂယလ ဘနနာ/ၾကယစ



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99. * When do we celebrate Independence Day? Cikni in Suahtakni kibawl hiam? လြတလပေရးေန႔က ဘယအခနကငးပပါသလ? - July 4 - ဂလငလ ၄ ရက

100. Name two national U.S.holidays. U.S. ah tawlngakni nih gen in. ႏငငေတာအားလပရက ႏစရက က ေဖၚျပပါ။ - New Year’s Day - Kumthak Ni - ႏစသစကးေန႔ - Martin Luther King,Jr.Day - Martin Luther King, Jr. Ni - မာတငလသာကငးေန႔ - Presidents’ Day - President te Ni - သမၼတမားေန႔ - Memorial Day - Daihawh Ni - စစသညေတာအထမးအမတေန႔ - Independence Day - Suahtak Ni - လြတလပေရးေန႔ - Labor Day - Nasemte Ni - အလပသမားေန႔ - Columbus Day - Columbus Ni - ကလဘတေန႔ - Veterans Day - Galkapluite Ni - စစမႈထမးေဟာငးမားေန႔ - Thanksgiving Day - Lungdamkoh Ni - ေကးဇးေတာခးမြမးေန႔ - Christmas - Lungdambawl Ni - ခရစေတာေမြးေန႔ေတာ



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2009 and is registered with the State of Oregon. Registry Number: 593147-90. EIN: 26-4574969 (04-01-

2009). Zomi Association of United States vision is to help build Zomi community in Portland and connect

with other Zomi in the United States and network with Zomi associations worldwide. Associate with other

communities on issues of mutual interest, regardless of their ethnic background or national origin. The

mission of the Zomi Association USA is strengthening Zomi immigrants and refugees through community

development and advocacy for human rights. Its mission is to serve the Zomi community and assist

families and individuals to achieve self-sufficiency. Zomi have been coming to United States of America

primarily in the last five years from Burma due to religious and racial persecution by the military ruling

junta. Many have come from refugee camps in Thailand, Malaysia and India, and are seeking a new life in

the United State, EU countries and Australia.

1. March 6 2009 ni-in Oregon State Portland khuapi-ah ZAUS ki phuankhia hi. April 8, 2009 ni-in

Oregon State ah registry number 593147-90 ki ngah hi.

2. May 9, 2009 ni-in ZAUS makaite Oregon State zumpi omna Salam khuapi-ah vapai-in Oregon

State Governor Ted Kulongoski leh legislators (senate & house legislative) te tawh kimuhkhopna ki

nei hi. Governor-pa tungah ZOMIte US ah minam khat-in hong ki ciapteh nading thusunna lai ki

pia hi.

3. July 8, 2009 ni-in Portland khua Mayor Sam Adam leh City Council te mai-ah ZAUS Chairman leh

Secretary-te in Zomite minam khat-in ciaptehna ih ngah nadingin thusunna leh lai ki pia hi.



4. Saturday August 8, 2009 ni-in Portland khua aa om Kawlgam miteng in “8888” phawkna ki bawl hi,

ZAUS members-te va kihel-in ZAUS chairman in thugenna nei hi.

5. August 12, 2009 UN Secretary General, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC),

India Embassy in U.S. te tungah lai ki at hi. A thulu pen:

1.To release Aung San Suu Kyi, Kam Lian Khup ZNC, Khun Htun Oo Shan and political prisoners.

2. ZAUS’s concerned about the illegal production of poppy and drugs in Cikha Township in India –

Myanmar boarder area and

3.Indian Meitei militants tortured and executed of Mr. Kam Sang Muan son of Mr. Khaat Kam of

Tongciin village.

6. August 28, 2009 ni-in World Association of Non-Government Organization (WANGO) in

member-in hong sang hi.

7. September 9, 2009 ni-in Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tungah Kawlgam Naingangyi vai tawh

kisai-in lai ki khak hi.

(a). Aung San Suu Kyi, Kam Lian Khup ZNC, Khun Htoon Oo Shan leh thongkia gam makaite

thong pan khahkhiat nading vai,

(b).Meitei-te in gamkek-in Cikha gamah beng (poppy) kung ciinna vai-te leh,

(c) Meitei galkapte in Tongciin khuami Pu Khaat Kam tapa Tg. Kam Sang Muan a thahna vai-te

ahi hi.

8. October 3, 2009 ni-in Rev. Dr. JM Ngul Khan Pau, Pastor Zam King Mang, Prof. Pu Dr. C Thang

Za Tuan leh Pu G.Thang Khan Mung-te ki hel-in “ZOMI DIASPORAS” cih thulu tawh Portland

khuapi-ah Khuado leh khawmpi khat kibawl hi.

9. October 27, 2009 ni-in ZAUS min tawh Kurt M Campbell, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East

Asian and Pacific Affairs tungah “Ethnic minorities affairs human rights violations and Democracy

in Burma” tawh kisai lai kipia. Mr. Campbell pen November 3-4,2009 ni Kawlgam a zin sungin

General Thein Sein, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, U Cin Sian Thang (ZNC) le United Nationalities'

Alliance (UNA) mi 12 tawh kimuh khopna nei hi.

10. November 21, 2009 ni-in ZOLAI hong bawlsak American Baptist Mission Sangmang Dr. J H Cope

phawkna kum 99 cin’ pawipi Portland khuapi-ah ki bawl-in Rev. Dr. Gin Khan Nang in thu genna

hong neih baan-ah, a manpha Cope Topa laibu bawl masak original-te lahna zong hong nei hi.

11. December 17, 2009 ni-in United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-

DESA) ah ZAUS ki sang hi. USA ah a ki phuankhia Zomi kipawlnate lak pan UN-DESA ah a lut

masa pen ahi hi.



12. December 30, 2009 ni-in “Zomi Teennamun Zon-olna USA 2009” (ZOMI DIRECTORY USA 2009)

online pan et theih dingin ki bawlkhia hi.

13. January 27, 2010 ni-in US Census 2010 form sungah dotna number 9, race acihna-ah ZOMI in

gelh ciat nading hanthotna leh taangkona Zomi email group-te tungah zaksakna lai ki khak hi.

February 18 ni-in US Census bureau Local Office Manager Richard Lightfoot leh zum nasem

officers-te tawh community partnership sepzia ding meeting ki nei hi.

14. February 1,2010 ZRA Salpha Comrade Thang Khan Suan (Cingmun Khua) leh Salpha Comrade

Thang Khan Dal (Kang Kap Khua)-te siatvatna dingin US$ 365 March 1,2010 ni-in ki khak hi.

15. April 14, 2010 ni-in ZAUS makaipi Pu Zam King Mang leh Pu Nang Khan Kam-te Portland

Mayor Sam Adam, City Council members-te leh mipi mai-ah US gambup aa teeng ZOMIte

zattheih dingin, “Zolai Sinna Laibu” kizo ta cih thu pulakna ki nei hi.

16. April 14, 2010Portland khua aa om kumpi zum ahi DHS zum, IRCO, zato sang leh zum

tuamtuamte-ah Zopau tawh kamphen ki ngah ta hi cih thu Portland City Council meeting-ah

pulakna ki nei hi.

17. June 14-15, 2010 sung in United Nations Headquarters, New York “UN General Assembly

Informal Interactive Hearings” kikhopna-ah ZAUS taangmite kihel thei ta hi, a kah ding palaite

New York aa teeng Pu Do Khan Khup, Pu Kham Khen Do, Pu Khup Lam Thang leh Tg. Pum Lam

Thang.

18. June 17, 2010 ni-in “ Zomi Lainatpih Campaign” Portland-ah kipan-in $755. ki ngah hi. Zomite

Unrepresented Nations and People Organization (UNPO)-ah member-in lut zawh nading leh non-

profit 501 c 3 ngah nading ngimna tawh Zomi a lainatpih mi khat in kha sim- in $1 ta piak ding

(kum khat a dingin $12) sum donna hi.

June 26 – 30 sung Chicago, Washington DC leh New York khuapite-ah ZAUS makaipi pu Zam

King Mang-te nupa campaign-in va zin uh aa, Zomi akua mahpeuh thangah-in ki lawp mahmah

hi.

19. June 28, 2010 ni-in Washington DC Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) zum-ah Zominam vai leh

gambel thu kikum dingin Pu Zam King Mang, Pi Cin Lun Niang, Rev. Zam Khai, Rev. Cin Do

Thawng, Pu Cin Do Khup-te va pai uh hi.

20. July 13, 2010 ni-in US Census 2010 Seattle Region-Oregon State zum panin ZAUS te “Certificate

of participation in the Complete Count Committee” award pia hi.



21. Wednesday September 8, 2010 ni-in U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) tawh ZAUS makaipi Pu

Zam King Mang-te ki muhna nei uh hi. Tua banah Eric Schwartz Assistant Secretary U.S.

Department of State, Barbara J. Day Domestic Resettlement Section Chief Bureau of Population-

te tawh Portland Community Leaders-teng in gambel vai-in Roundtable discussion ki nei hi.

22. November 6, 2010 ni-in ZAUS in “Cope Topa Kumza Cinna” Metro East Studio-ah ki bawl hi.

23. Zomi Humanitarian Award. Cope Topa Kumza Cinna muakna-in ZAUS min in, “Zomi

Humanitarian Award” ki pia hi. Pu Zam King Mang in pahtawina $100 ta (Akigawm $1100.) pia hi.

1. Rev. Dr. Kam Khaw Thang. 2. Pu S.T. Hau Go ZBC founder (pi Luan Za Cing). 3. Pu Dr. Gin En

Cin. 4. Pu Pum Za Kap ZNC founder (Pi Ciin). 5. Pu Cin Sian Thang (ZNC President) .6

Lungvakna Journal. 7. ZCLS. 8. ZRDP (Pu Vum Nang). 9. Rev. Job Thawngno. 10. Pu Kam Khen

leh Pu Thawng Mung.

24. November 2010 in ZAUS makaipi Malaysia KL va hawhin ZAM makaiteng tawh thu kikupna ki nei

hi.

25. January 9, 2011 in Zomi Association of Thailand ki phuan hi.

26. March 15, 2011 ni in Yangon ah Pu Zam King Mang leh Pu Cin Sian Thang, Pu Gin Kam Lian, (Pu

Tual Khaw Mang (Mangtal). Pu Dal Do Lian (Chin State NLD). Prof. Dr. C Thang Za Tuan, Pu

Hung Mang-te tawh gam leh minam vai holimna neikhawm uh hi.

27. March 17, 2011 ni, Pu Zam King Mang Thailand gamgi Maelah leh Umphian Refugee camps-te ah

hawhin Zomite leh Zomi Association Thailand makaite tawh kimuhna nei hi.

28. April 12, 2011 ni-in ZAUS 2nd Annual Meeting-ah Re. Dr. JM Ngul Khan Pau in thu gen hi. ZAUS

mai lam kum 10 sung nasep ding gelna ki nei hi (10 year plan). U.S. Census 2020 ciang ading

gelkholhna leh Zomite pumpi taksa lam leh kha lam khantoh nading gelna vai tuamtuam ki nei hi.

29. Friday April 22, 2011.The Zomi Association of USA (ZAUS) was awarded 'Exemplary Community

Volunteer Effort’ by the Asian Reporter Foundation for its outstanding contribution to community

activities.

30. August 16, 2011 ZAUS in Mercy Corps-te kiangah Tedimgam adingin, “Emergency aids for natural

disaster and long term assistance” ngetna ki neihsak hi.

31. November 21, 2011 ni-in Hillary Rodham Clinton U.S. Secretary of State tungah lai kikhak hi.

Kawlgam-ah December 1-2, 2011 sung ahawh ciangin gamvai aa thongkia-teng a kikhah nading

leh mualmite deihna ahi federal democracy ki-ukna vaite ki gen hi.

32. August 11, 2011 ni-in Zomi Association of Japan ki phuan hi.



33. Leitung gam tuamtuam-a om Zomi Associations-teng: 1. ZA Malaysia 2. ZA Australia 3. ZAUS 4.

ZA Japan 5. ZA Thailand 6. ZA European Union.

34. December 6, 2011 ni-in “Open Letter to President Obama” petition letter suaikhaihna lai ki khak hi.

ZAUS in US gam-a om politics akin kipawlna tuamtuamte i.e. 8888 generation-te tawh kipawl-in

Kawlgam democracy, human rights vai leh Panlong bulphuh federal kumpi neih ding vai ki gen hi.

35. December 30, 2011 ni-in Asian Family Center zum-ah Pei-ru Wang tawh meeting ki nei-in, East

Portland Action Plan (EPAP) vai-ah na sepkhop dingin thu kikupna ki nei hi.

36. January 8, 2012 ni-in Mr. Kosei OTSUKA Ph.D (Thang Hau Lian), Tokyo University of Foreign

Studies Researcher, pan-in “A grammar of Zomi language” research bawl-in Ph.D ngahna

pahtawina ki pia hi.

37. Portland khua-a om Zomite in Kachin galtaite huhna sum (KRRF) $600 ki dongin WZC tungah ki

khak hi. WZC in Zomite taang dingin Kachin galtaite huhna a kigawm-in $13013.95 pia hi.

38. January 30, 2012 ni-in CNF’s in Tedim-Tonzang gam-ah liaison zum honloh nading khamna lai ki

khak hi. CNF’s Supreme Council makai Dr. Za Hlei Thang in February 23, 2012 ni-in lai ong

thukkik hi, “ZAUS-te laikhak tungtawnin ahi zong, Tedim-Tonzang mipite deihloh thute ki vaihawm

lo ding hi” ci hi.

39. February 3, 2012 ni-in Oregon State Governor John Kitzhaber tungah, Zomite minam khat-in U.S.

kumpi in ong ciamteh nadingin lai ki piakik hi.

40. February 3, 2012 ni mah-in APANO-te tawh kop-in Oregon Legislative-te tawh kimuhna ki nei-in

gambelte huhna sum leh TANF-te ong ki piakbeh nadingin thusunna ki nei hi.

41. March 3, 2012 ni-in Portland khua-a om Kawlgammi khempeuh ki muhkhopna khawmpi khat a ki

bawl zawh nadingin thu kikupna Lutheran Community Services zum-ah ki nei hi.

42. Saturday April 21, 2012 ni in ZAM co-founder Pu Neng Hau Kim, Pu Mang Suan Pau, Pu Khai

Pian leh state tuamtuam pan-a ZAM makai sem ngeiteng online panin thu kikupna ki nei-in ZAUS

phungvuh dingin ki thukim hi.

43. Saturday April 28, 2012 ni-in ZAUS Kum thum cinna Khawmpi Asian Family Center ah picing takin

ki bawl hi. AFC panin Pei-ru Wang leh Teresa Lavagnino in thapiakna thu ong gen hi. EPAP fund

panin nek leh dawn teng ong sik-in, lungdamna ki ciamteh hi.



44. Saturday May 19, 2012 ni-in ZAUS Board Members leh states tuamtuam panin palai ki teel hi.

President: Pu Zam King Mang (OR),

Vice President: Pu Tual Khan Lian (OK),

Secretary: SB Langhno ( OR),

Assistant Secretary: Tg. David Khai (NY),

Treasurer: Pa Khai Pian Thang (OR),

Accountant: Tg. Zam Langh (TX)

EC Members:- (1). Kam Mang (DC) (6). Paul Mang Pau (OR) (11). Thang Cin (OR)

(2). Pau Mung (OK) (7). Neng Hau Kim (NC) (12). Thang Khawm Pau (KY)

(3). Cin Pau (OK) (8). William Kim (OR) (13). Nang Khan Kam (OR)

(4). Cin S. Mung (GA) (9). Lum L. Thang (OR) (14). Lian Lam Thang (OR)

(5). Lian M. Vung (WI) (10). Cin Ngaih Suan(OR) (15). Thawng Mung (OR)

45. Kawlkumpi Kitelna Zum panin, “Kawlgamah Zomi omlo” ci-in ZNC party register ong piakloh

huhhau-in Zomibup ki lungkim lo hi. Pu T. Zo Khai makai-in Zomi Association Australia (ZAA)-te in

Canberra Kawlgam Embassy mai-ah lungphona nei hi.

46. May 30, 2012 ZAUS in President U Thein Sein tungah Kawlgamah Zomi om hi cih thu lai kikhak

hi.

47. ZAUS in WZC-te makaihna tawh Lungphona neih ding vaihawm san laitakin Kawlgam Kitelna zum

panin Zomi om hi, party register bawl kik un ci-in ZNC pu Cin Sian Thang tungah zasakkik hi.

48. July 6-7, 2012 Tulsa-ah ZIUSA Kumcin Khawmpi-ah zin mangpi dingin ZNC president pu Cin Sian

Thang ong pai thei hi. ZAUS palai dingin meeting kah dingin Pu G.Thang Khan Mung, Pu Khawm

Pau, Pu Cin Sian, Pu Khai Pian leh Pu Tual-te ki seh hi.

49. September 15, 2012 ZAUS meeting thu khensatna tawh Piantit paite (French Labor Corp)

phawkna mualsuang Tedim-ah phuh ding vai leh “Zogam Landmarks” a kibawl zawh nadingin

ZAUS makai in Zomi kipawlna tuamtuamte tawh sepkhop dingin ki vaihawm hi.

50. September 15, 2012 Portland Public School-ah Zolai sin theih dingin ZAUS in ki vaihawm hi.

Makai dingin Lum L. Thang, Khai Pian leh Pau L. Khup-te ki seh hi.

51. September 22, 2012 Bishop Felix Lian Khen Thang pahtawina-in “Zomi Leadership Award” ki pia

hi.

52. "Zomi Patriotic Award" ZAUS in Pu Cin Sian Thang leh Pu Dr. C. Thang Za Tuan ki pia hi.

Kawlkumpi Kitelna zum (Election Commission) panin, "Zomi nam omlo" ong cih ciangin, "Zominam

I om lam athu kicing takin evidence tawh lahtheih nadingin Zomite taangthu kigelhna laibute a

kaikhawm Tedim Association President Pu Dr. C. Thang Za Tuan leh ZNC President Pu Cin Sian

Thang-te vaihawmna tawh Zomi Congress for Democracy (ZCD) in register ngah kik hi.



53. November 7, 2012 ZAUS Education Department makai Lum L.Thang vaihawm-in United States,

Oregon State, Portland High School te-ah Zolai zong Second Language khat-in hong ki sang hi.

November 17, 2012 ni-in Centennial High School ah sang naupangte credit ngah theih nadingin

test ki bawl hi.

54. December 1, 2012 meeting panin Kawlgamah ZAUS zum (branch) hon dingin thu ki khensat hi.

Taangmi ong sepsak dingin Pu On Za Suan ki seh hi.

55. Portland High School Zolai sinna-ah zat dingin:- 1. ZAUS pan ki bawl - "Zolai Sinna" 2. Pu T.

Zokhai bawl "Gualbaan Zolai Sinbu" 3. ZAM bawl Dr. Dal Lian Haukip New English Zolai

Dictionary. 4. Khaipi bawl ZoDictonary.com 5. ZOLUS magazine te. 6. ZAUS in Articles tuamtuam

kaikhawm-in Zolai buthak bawl ding.

56. December 20, 2012 US Citizenship laivuanna-ah kidong thu 100 te Zolai-in online ah ki khah hi.

57. December 27, 2012 East Portland Action Plan panin grant $7000. Tawh thupi nam li ki sem hi.

A. U.S. Citizenship test 100 questions te Mang lai, Zolai, Kawllai in online leh laibu-in ki bawl hi.

B. Leadership and civic engagement and advocacy thusinna.

C. Rental rights and responsibilities vai thusinna.

D. Child and Family, the Law and Crime Prevention vai thusinna ki nei hi.

58. February 10, 2013 ZAUS Culture Development Department vaihawmna tawh, Portland khua Zomi

teng in $1200. Tawh Kachin Refugee te huhna ki pia hi.

59. February 16, 2013 Zomi Innkuan Portland vaihawmna tawh Kum 65 Cinna Zomi Namni ki bawl-in,

ZAUS President Pu Zam King Mang in a thugenna-ah Zominam Ni maban dingin:-

1. Pinglong agreement thukimna zui-in Kawlgamah federal democracy ki ukna a om nadingin

Mualmiteng leh democracy a deih Kawlmiteng in maapang khawm ding.

2. Kawlgamah minam khat leh khat gal kikapna Tualgal a beinading leh kilemna leh daihna a

omnading-in gambup kilemna 'National reconciliation' bawl ding.

3. Zomiteng ki lungtuakin, EU gamte bangin Zogam Union khat-in ih dintheih nadingin Burma,

Bangladesh, India kumpite tungah thudam tawh ngen ding. (Sengam, Thailand gamgi aa teeng

mualmite suakta takin kizin, kikawm thei khin uh hi.) Note. Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar leh India

gam aa teeng mualtungmi teng Zomi hi hang.

4. Pasian thuzui Zomite in Pasian muangin thagum hatna tawh hi lo, Khasiangtho tha muangin,

Pasian thupha sang Zomite ihih nadingin thuman-in citak ding. (Late 33:12).

60. February 20, 2013 Zomi Re-unification Organization (ZRO) phalna tawh ZAUS in Zominam

dialkhai (Zomi national flag) ki bawl hi. Hih dialkhai pen 1993 kum-in ZRO innteekna tawh ki

bawl ahi hi, Zomi Council inzong Zominam dialkhai dingin pompih uh hi.

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