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Unit 1 Test Review

Unit 1 Test Review

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Social Studies

12th Grade

Hard

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Rachel Miller

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Unit 1 Test Review

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Format of test

  • 30 questions

  • 4 questions are matching

  • 26 questions are multiple choice

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Multiple Choice

This is the institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies.

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Sovereignty

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Government

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Dictatorship

4

Democracy

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What are the four characteristics of a state?

  • Population

  • Territory

  • Sovereignty

  • Government

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Four theories on the origin of state

  • Force - single person or small group taking over and making all in the area submit to their rule

  • Evolutionary - the state developed from the early family

  • Divine Right - God gave those of royal birth the right to rule

  • Social Contract - the state came out of the voluntary act of free people

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Multiple Choice

What states the main purposes of the US Government?

1

Emancipation Proclamation

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Preamble

3

Declaration of Independence

4

Article I of the Constitution

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a way governments can be classified?

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Who can participate

2

Relationship between Executive and Legislative Branches

3

Geographic distribution of governmental power

4

How many people they have in office

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Multiple Choice

In what type of government does supreme political authority rest with the people?

1

Dictatorship

2

Oligarchy

3

Democracy

4

Fascism

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Types of Democracy

  • Direct - people make the laws themselves

  • Indirect - representatives are elected to make the laws for the people <- this is what we have in the United States

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Types of Dictatorships

  • Autocracy - single person holds unlimited power

  • Oligarchy - power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite

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Multiple Choice

Which form of government has all powers held by a single, central agency?

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Confederation

2

Unitary system

3

Direct democracy

4

Federal system

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Multiple Choice

A federal government is

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a government which has power split between a central government and several local governments.

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a state government.

3

an alliance of independent states.

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a government which has all power held by a single central agency.

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Relationship between Legislative and Executive

  • Presidential Government - people elect both the legislative and executive branches, the branches are separate and coequal

  • Parliamentary Government - people elect the legislative branch and then the legislative branch chooses an executive from their body

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Basic notions US government is built on

  • A recognition of the fundamental worth and dignity of every person

  • A respect for the equality of all persons

  • A faith in majority rule and an insistence upon minority rights

  • An acceptance of the necessity of compromise

  • An insistence upon the widest possible degree of individual freedom

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Free Enterprise System

an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods; investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state control; and determined in a free market.

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Multiple Choice

An economy in which private enterprise exists in combination with a considerable amount of government regulation and promotion is called

1

a free enterprise system

2

a mixed economy

3

communism

4

socialism

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Duties and Responsibilities

  • Duties

    •Serving on a jury or as a witness

    •Attending school

    •Paying taxes

    •Obeying laws


  • Responsibilties

    •Voting, volunteering, understanding the workings of gov’t

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Multiple Choice

The English Colonists brought all of the following concepts of government to America, EXCEPT

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Need for government

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Following the leader of a country without question

3

Representative government

4

Limited government

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Multiple Choice

All of the following documents influenced the Bill of Rights, EXCEPT

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Virginia Bill of Rights

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English Bill of Rights

3

Declaration of Independence

4

Magna Carta

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Multiple Choice

All of the following are types of colonies in North America EXCEPT

1

charter

2

royal

3

free

4

proprietary

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Multiple Choice

Until the mid-1700s, the colonies were allowed a great deal of freedom in their governments by the English monarchy.

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True

2

False

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The Albany Plan

  • Created by Benjamin Franklin

  • Annual congress of delegates

  • Ahead of its time

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First Continental Congress

  • Sent Declaration of Rights and Grievances to King George III

  • Urged colonists to stop trading with England


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Declaration of Independence

July 4, 1776

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT a common feature of state constitutions?

1

Popular sovereignty

2

Civil rights and liberties

3

Limited government

4

Unitary systems

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Multiple Choice

Under the Articles of Confederation Congress was given the power to do all of the following EXCEPT

1

deal with national finance issues

2

declare war

3

tax

4

settle disputes among the States

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

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No executive branch to enforce the acts of Congress

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All states had to agree to pass laws

3

No national court system

4

Congress could not tax

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