Foundation of the American Government Part 1

Foundations of the American Government

Multiple Choice

What document represents the birth of the United States?

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• US Constitution

• Magna Carta

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How long had the American colonist been practicing forms of self government before the Declaration of Independence?

• About 75 years

• About 10 years

• About 200 years

• About 150 years

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What philosopher believed life, liberty, and property should be protected by the government?

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

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Power is...

• the supreme and ultimate power or authority within a territory.

• the right to rule.

• the ability to get people to behave in certain ways, even when they do not want to.

• a society's belief that their ruler or government has the right to rule.

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What prompted a call for a new type of government with a constitution and liberty?

• The Enlightenment

• American Revolution

• Protestant Reformation

• Religious Freedom

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Which one of these is NOT a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• trade regulation

• checks and balances

• no common currency

• no chief executive

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Choose the correct statement...

• Anti-federalists believed in a strong national government.

• Federalists believed in a strong national government.

• Federalists believed in a strong state government.

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What article provides a method to add amendments to the Constitution?

• IV

• X

• VII

• V

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1. What is the supreme law of the land?

• The U.S. Constitution

• The Supreme Court

• The Bill of Rights

• The Declaration of independence

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3. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?

• Liberty for all

• We the citizens

• Justice for all

• We the people

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4. What is an amendment?

• It's the process by which Supreme Court Justices are chosen

• It's a vote in Congress

• It's a change to the Constitution

• It's part of the Electoral College.

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

• The Bill of Rights

• The Ten Commandments

• The List of Ten

• The Bill of Lading

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7. How many amendments does the Constitution have?

• 10

• 27

• 33

• 51

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11. What is the economic system in the United States?

• Socialist, Communist

• Black market

• Underground railroad

• Capitalist, Free Market

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13. Which are the three branches of government?

• Judicial, Congress, Senate

• Legislative, Executive, Judicial

• Supreme Court, President, Senate

• Federal, State, Local

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

• The President

• Martial Law

• The U. S. Military

• Checks and Balances

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15. Who is in charge of the Executive Branch?

• The Supreme Court

• The Commerce Secretary

• Secretary of Defense

• The President

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

• President, Supreme Court

• FBI, CIA

• Department of Justice, Department of Education

• Senate, House of Representatives

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

• 100

• 435

• 50

• 2

Multiple Choice

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

• 8

• 2

• 4

• 6

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21. The House of Representatives has how many voting members?*

• 9

• 12

• 435

• 100

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

• 2

• 4

• 6

• 8

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24. Who does a U.S. Senator represent?

• the people of his Senate district

• All of the people of the state

• all of the people of the country

• half of the people of the state

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

• because of the land area of the state

• because of the state's population

• because of the state's wealth

• because of the state's influence