United StatesQuestion 12 (2025 list) · Principles of American government

What is the economic system of the United States?

  1. aCapitalismCorrect answer
  2. bCommunism
  3. cSocialism
  4. dFeudalism

Why?

The United States has a capitalist, or free market, economy. Most businesses are privately owned, and prices are mostly set by buying and selling. You could also say “free market economy.”

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Questions and answers: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), 128 Civics Questions and Answers (2025 version), M-1778, and Civics Questions and Answers (2008 version), rev. 08/21 — public domain. USCIS accepts other answers too; we show one of them. The wrong options and the explanations are ours. Not affiliated with or endorsed by USCIS.

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