civics test #2

Parliament first limited the power of the Crown under the...

• English Bill of Rights
• Petition of Right
• Intolerable Acts
• Stamp Act of 1765

A major objective of both the Annapolis Convention and the Philadelphia Convention was to...

• recommend a federal plan for regulating interstate trade
• determine how the States should be represented in Congress
• limit the growing power of the National Government
• raise an army for quelling incidents like Shay's Rebellion.

Which feature did the State constitution and the Articles of Confederation have in common?

• a strong executive elected by popular vote
• royal govenors
• principle of popular sovereignty
• bill of rights

Which was an achievement of the Second Continental Congress?

• raising an American army
• preparing a Declaration of Rights
• establishing a strong central government
• passing the Intolerable Acts

The first State constitutions, adopted after independence...

• provided for lengthy terms for elective offices
• placed most authority with the State governors
• extended voting rights to all adult State residents
• placed most authority with the State legislatures

Much of the Declaration of Independence consists of...

• omplaints of the wrongs done to the colonists
• threats of revenge for English mistreatment
• statements of the desire to separate from England
• lists of the rights of all people

After the Revolutionary War, the National Government...

• proved too weak to deal with growing economic and political problems
• refused to repay the war debt it owed to the States
• permitted the States to make agreements with foreign governments
• began imposing harsh tax policies on property owners and merchants

The idea that the people have the right to abolish an abusive and unresponsive government was FIRST formally expressed by Americans in the...

• Petition of Right
• Declaration of Rights
• Declaration of Independence
• Constitution

Which idea is NOT included in the Declaration of Independence?

• God gives certain people the right to govern
• People have certain natural rights
• The people may change or abolish the government
• Government can exist only with the people's permission

The success of which plan led to the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

• Albany Plan of Union
• compromise reached between the Virginia and New Jersey plans
• Second Continental Congress's "plan of confederation"
• interstate plan for regulating trade between Virginia and Maryland