Preamble
Limits on Government Power
Articles of Confederation
Founding Documents
Founding Principles
Founding Principles
Ancient Traditions
Forms and Systems of Government
100
"We the People" is an illustration of:
A. Due Process of Law
B. Natural Rights
C. Consent of the Governed
D. Religious Liberty
C. Consent of the Governed
100
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches are an example of this limit on government.
A. Separation of Powers
B. Individual Rights
C. Rule of Law
D. Due Process of Law
A. Separation of Powers
100
The postage stamp shows a committee of the Second Continental Congress drafting the Articles of the Confederation.
Why did this committee create a weak national government?
A. to encourage more trade between states
B. to preserve the powers of the individual states
C. to promote the nation's security against foreign attacks
D. to permit the taxation of citizens to pay the nation's debts
B. to preserve the powers of the individual states
100
This document guaranteed right to a fair jury trial, due process of law, and limiting the power of the king.
A. Magna Carta
B. Mayflower Compact
C. English Bill of Rights
D. Common Sense
A. Magna Carta
100
How are Ancient Rome and Thomas Paine’s views reflected in the U.S. political system?
A. The representatives are elected.
B. The representatives are appointed.
C. The monarchy supports self-government.
D. The monarchy creates limited government.
A. The representatives are elected.
100
This system of government has a strong Central/National government and weak regions/states.
A. Federal
B. Confederal
C. Unitary
D. Democracy
C. Unitary
200
The ______________ Revenue Act (1767), taxing things it knew the colonists couldn’t make for themselves: paint, glass, paper, lead, and tea. This Act also allowed British government workers to search people's’ houses and take items the homeowner hadn’t paid taxes for.
A. Townshend
B. Quartering
C. Sugar
D. Housing
A. Townshend
200
This limit on government ensures fair legal procedures in criminal trials.
A. Separation of Powers
B. Checks and Balances
C. Rule of Law
D. Due Process of Law
D. Due Process of Law
200
The Articles of Confederation created a President to lead the country.
True or False
False - There was no central leadership under the Articles of Confederation
200
A community agrees to obey the ruler and the ruler agrees to protect the community and individual rights comes from this idea?
A. Magna Carta
B. Mayflower Compact
C. Social Contract
D. English Bill of Rights
C. Social Contract
200
British Parliament passed laws taking away colonists' freedoms. Colonists viewed these violations of the social contract.
A. Separation of Powers
B. Limitations on Individual Rights
C. Due Process
D. Civic Participation
B. Limitations on Individual Rights
200
This form of government has characteristics of a Dictatorship or an Absolute Monarchy
A. Republic
B. Constitutional Monarchy
C. Autocracy
D. Oligarchy
C. Autocracy
300
Goals and purposes of U.S. Government peace in the United States:
A. More perfect Union
B. Establish Justice
C. Domestic Tranquility
D. Common Defense
C. Domestic Tranquility
300
The Social Contract is an agreement between citizens and the government. It is designed to protect
A. Separation of Powers
B. Checks and Balances
C. Individual Rights
D. Common Sense
C. Individual Rights
300
The Framers required only 9 out of 13 states to ratify the new U.S. Constitution under Article VII
True or False
True - The U.S. Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation requirement of Unanimous.
300
This document gave the Framers the idea of Self-Government and Consent of the governed.
A. Magna Carta
B. Mayflower Compact
C. English Bill of Rights
D. Common Sense
B. Mayflower Compact
300
Government where people elect others to make decisions and laws for them
A. Dictatorship
B. Monarchy
C. Oligarchy
D. Representative Self-Government
D. Representative Self-Government
300
This system of government has characteristics of the national government and state governments having concurrent powers.
A. Federal
B. Constitutional Monarchy
C. Autocracy
D. Oligarchy
A. Federal
400
Goals and purposes of U.S. Government provide a military for protection:
A. More perfect Union
B. Establish Justice
C. Common Defense
D. General Welfare
C. Common Defense
400
Identify Montesquieu's two (2) principles of limited government
Separation of Powers
Checks and Balances
400
Shays' Rebellion was attributed to these two weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
No Power to Tax
No National Armed Forces
400
This Enlightenment Thinker studied Natural Law, Natural Rights, and the Social Contract.
A. Thomas Paine
B. John Locke
C. Montesquieu
D. King George III
B. John Locke
400
They were being taxed without representation in the British Parliament; They could not choose where to live; Protested and boycotted British goods
British Policies or Colonial Concerns
Colonial Concerns
400
Identify four (4) Forms of Government
Democracy
Direct Democracy
Republic
Monarch
Constitutional Monarchy
Absolute Monarchy
Autocracy
Dictatorship
Oligarchy
Theocracy
500
Goals and purposes of U.S. Government to take care of U.S. citizens:
A. Establish Justice
B. Common Defense
C. General Welfare
D. Liberty for Ourselves and Our Posterity
C. General Welfare
500
How did Great Britain respond to colonists petitions and complains?
The British ignore colonist petitions and complaints
500
The United States Supreme Court was established because the Articles of Confederation lacked a:
National Court System (Judicial Branch)
500
This author and this document urged colonists to 'break free from Great Britain' in favor of a Representative Self-Government.
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
500
Identify the three ancient traditions studied during Civics semester one (1).
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Judeo-Traditions
500
Identify the Systems of Government
Unitary
Confederal
Federal