Unit 1- Review

“We the people of the United States” is a line from

• Declaration of Independence
  
• Constitution
  
• Articles of Confederation
  
• Continental Congress

The 3/5ths Compromise settled the question of

• how to count national population
  
• how land would be split up
  
• who should be allowed to vote
  
• how many votes are needed to pass a law

The United States has a __________________ type of government.

• Federal 
• Unitary 
• Confederate 
• Oligarchic 

The theory that people give up rights to the government for things the govt provides to them 

• Force Theory 
• Divine Right Theory 
• Social Contract Theory
• Evolution Theory 

Under which type of government does the state and federal gov't share powers? 

• Federal 
• Confederate
• Unitary 
• Dictatorship

The government of the United States is an example of 

• Direct Democracy 
• Autocracy 
• Indirect Democracy 
• Dictatorship

Under the Articles of Confederation,Congress had the power to do which of the following?

• control foreign and interstate commerce
  
• declare war
  
•  tax the people 
  
• enforce its own laws

What state was missing from the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

• Virginia
• Connecticut
• New York
• Rhode Island 

Shays’ Rebellion

• led to the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
  
• is an example of the failure of the elastic clause.
  
• proved  the Articles of Confederation were not working.
  
• Occurred in Virginia

When the people are the rulers we refer to this as

• an oligarchy. 
• popular sovereignty. 
• federalism. 
• limited government.