American Government EOC Review

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Based on the graph titled "Spending by Functions – Fiscal Year 2010", which statement is most accurate? Health received the least amount of federal funding. National defense received less federal funding than Medicare. Social Security received the greatest amount of federal funding. Transportation received more federal funding than veterans’ benefits and services.

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National defense received less federal funding than Medicare.

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Which statement best explains why a citizen would participate in an interest group rather than a political party?

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Interest groups focus on a specific political issue.

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Choose the correct document that goes with the quote provided:
"The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever."
Options: Constitution of the United States, Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence, Mayflower Compact

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Articles of Confederation

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Choose the correct document that goes with the quote provided: "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and Nature's God entitle them . . ."

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Declaration of Independence

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Choose the correct document that goes with the quote provided: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this [document]."

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Constitution of the United States

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Which of the documents was adopted or ratified at the earliest date? Declaration of Independence, United States Constitution, Articles of Confederation, Mayflower Compact

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Mayflower Compact

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Based on the quotation from Isaac Wilkins, which phrase best describes the writer?

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a loyalist

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Select the statement that best illustrates the major economic weakness of the Articles of Confederation.

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America had no uniform system of currency, which made trade between the states and with foreign entities much more difficult and less efficient.

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Based on the quotation from the Articles of Confederation: Article 6, Clause 2, '... nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.' Which weakness of the Articles of Confederation is described?

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difficulty making changes to government

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How does the quotation demonstrate Jefferson's beliefs about the importance of capitalism on the development of early American government?

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It explains that people are most happy and prosperous when free from government interference.