Civics and Government: Unit 1

Which of the following is true about the 14th amendment?

• Protects the rights to freedom of speech, religion, and press.

• Guarantees the right to bear arms.

• Grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States

• All of the Above

Which of the following is something every state has?

• Population

• Territory

• Sovereignty

• Government

• All of the Above

Countries have the right to do what it wants in its own country, without other countries interfering because they have...

• Sovereignty

• A Strong Civil Society

• Respect

• Self-Determination

The United States of America can be classified as the following because it has political boundaries, a government, and is diverse.

• Nation

• State

• Nation-State

• Confederacy

What important theory of government did Thomas Hobbes and John Locke develop?

• Evolution Theory

• Force Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

What do individuals give up and gain according to Social Contract Theory (first response what they lose; second response what they gain)

• Freedom; Security

• Security; Freedom

• Security; Sovereignty

• Freedom; Sovereignty

What structure of government features a system where the central government sometimes creates local governments to carry out national policy. Local governments have no sovereignty.

• Unitary

• Federal

• Confederate

• Democracy

What structure of government features a system where the central government can only act when each of the states approve of the idea. In this system the flow of power goes from the states to the central government because the states dictate what the central government can do.

• Unitary

• Federal

• Confederate

• Democracy

Which of the following was NOT one of Aristotle's classifications of government:

• Autocracy: Rule by one individual

• Theocracy: Rule dominated by religion

• Oligarchy: Rule by a few

• Democracy: Rule by many

Which of the following is NOT true about the economic systems?

• Capitalism: developed by Adam Smith, based on law of supply and demand and Laissez-Faire.

• Socialism: System that attempts to redistribute wealth evenly and the government regulates and sometimes owns businesses.

• Communism: developed by Karl Marx's book "The Communist Manifesto." Government actively controls the economy. There is no private ownership. The end goal is a classless society.

• Mixed Economy: Most countries are purely capitalist, socialist, or communist. There are very few mixed economies.