4th Grade Civics Test Prep

The Constitution was created by the ______________.

• Framers

• colonists

• American people

• King George's army

A political scientists is someone who...

• studies government and politics

• studies economics and how money is spent

• studies people in our country

• studies student achievement

A written document that describes how a government is organized is a _____________________.

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

"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."

This is the __________________.

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• Preamble

• Declaration of Independence

The purpose of the Preamble was to...

• describe how the government would be organized

• describe how the government would run

• describe what the Framers felt the government should do for the people

• describe what people living in the country could do

The state government...

• provides safety and order to the whole country

• provides safety and order to the individual state

• provides safety and order for a community

• provides nothing, depends solely on the federal government

______________________ are beliefs and ideas that unite Americans.

• Core Democratic Values

• Bill of Rights

• The Preamble

• The Constitution

Which of the following describes the CDV of Pursuit of Happiness?

• All people should be treated fairly in getting advantages/disadvantages; no group/person is favored

• The government and citizens should not lie

• Each citizen can find happiness in his/her own way, so long as he/she does not step on the rights of others

• Differences in language, dress, food, where parents/grandparents were born, race, and religion are not allowed, but accepted as important

True or False: The federal government has complete control of our country.

• True

• False

True or False: Queen Bertha's country of Berwagana is a republic because she was given her position when her father died.

• True

• False