History of Government Review Quiz

Ancient Rome functioned as a _______________________, where people elected others to represent them.

• Direct Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Representative Democracy

• Monarchy

This was a system of government used around Europe where power was based upon how much land you owned..

• Facism

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

• Feudalism

Famous document that King John was forced to sign, it was the first document to limit his power

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Constitution

This is the concept that government's power can be limited ON PAPER.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Divine Right

• Social Contract

• Limited Government

This is the concept that the people have the power to decide who gets to rule them.

• Limited Government

• Popular Sovereignty

• Divine Right

• Theocracy

This event demonstrated that power could be exchanged in a peaceful, nonviolent, manner

• Magna Carta

• Bubonic Plague

• Glorious Revolution

• English Civil War

This document likely inspired our own Bill of Rights, and included freedom of speech, right to a jury trial, right to bear arms, and more...

• Magna Carta

• Declaration of Independence

• English Bill of Rights

• Great Law of Peace

This is a system where individual countries join together in an alliance in order to accomplish a common goal/s

• Federacy

• Confederacy

• Monarchy

• State of Nature

In the Iriquois Confederacy how many nations had to agree in order to pass a unified law

• Majority (more than half)

• 2/3

• 1/2

• All (consensus)

Which founding father was particularly inspired by the Iroquois Confederacy and brought them up at the Albany Charter?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Ben Franklin

• George Washington

• Alexander Hamilton