Government WHS Unit 1 Review

​Government Unit 1 Test Review

By Julie Underwood

Montesquieu

​Articles I, II, III

The U.S. Constitution.

You can see Voltaire's Influence in :

​Amendment I: The U.S. Constitution

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

Influence of Rousseau

Preamble: The U.S. Constitution

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Influence of Locke

​The Declaration of Independence

When in 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 of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Multiple Choice

John Locke's ideas influenced ____________ _________ writing of the United States Declaration of Independence

• Thomas Jefferson
• King Lou

• Lord Ashely

Multiple Choice

Locke's ideas on what is simply that people enter into an agreement with their government to protect their unalienable rights to life, liberty and property.

• Liberty

• Natural Rights

• Social Contract

Multiple Choice

What was the first permanent settlement in the Middle Colonies

• New York

• Plymouth

• Charleston

• Jamestown

French and Indian War

"The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. The four acts were the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. The Quebec Act of 1774 is sometimes included as one of the Coercive Acts, although it was not related to the Boston Tea Party. These oppressive acts sparked strong colonial resistance, including the meeting of the First Continental Congress, which George Washington attended in September and October 1774."

Intolerable Acts

​Declaration of Independence

When the banks in Massachusetts began threatening families with seizure of the property and farms, men like Daniel Shays, who had served as a Captain in the army, refused to let them take their livelihood.

When petitions to the state legislature failed to change anything, Shays gathered together a group of angry farmers planning to use force to shut down the banks in 1786. The governor called together a militia of 1,200 and was successful in stopping Shays, but concern that the national government under the Articles of Confederation was not strong enough to handle the growing economic issues and that further insurrections could take place led to the re-evaluation of the AOC

​Carpenters' Hall In Philadelphia
First Continental Congress Meeting Place

Multiple Choice

What is depicted in the printing shown?

• The first battle of the American Revolution

• Paul Revere's Engraving of the Boston Massacre that rallied the patriot cause

• The Battle in New Your City

Multiple Choice

Which theory of a state detailed rulers or kings being destined by God to be rulers?

• Force

• Natural Law

• Divine Rights

• Social Contract

Multiple Choice

Social Contract theory : All legitimate governments are based upon the ________

• People

• The Rule of Law

• The King

• Socialism

Multiple Choice

The principle that all people possess a fundamental, moral worth that entitles them to fairness under the law is called

• Worth of an individual

• Compromise

• Minority Rights

• Sovereignty

Multiple Choice

this person believed everyone was born with equal worth, believed in freedom of religion, and believed the government needed structure

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Voltaire

Multiple Choice

Believed that human law is not to violate God's law, but to decide what is right - Human Law's are most effective tool for producing right conduct and preventing wrong conduct is sanctions and punishment.

• Baron de Montesquieu

• William Blackstone

• George Washington

Multiple Choice

"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such war, as if of every man , against every man."

Who does this quote belong to?

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

Multiple Choice

"All mankind being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."

Who does this quote belong to?

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

Multiple Choice

"Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments (...) But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go."

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Hobbes

• Rosseau