American Government Unit 1 Test

Which is the process by which a society decides how government is run and how the leaders are chosen?

• divine right

• executive power

• politics

• judicial power

Who holds the governmental power in a dictatorship?

• the judicial branch of government

• the people's elected representatives

• the people themselves

• one person or small group of people

What is the main political unit in the world?

• the state

• the township

• the city

• the county

In which governmental system does the central government lack the power to make laws?

• autocracy

• unitary government

• confederate government

• federal government

What is the relationship between the legislative and the executive branches of a presidential government?

• the judicial branch has more power

• the legislative branch has more power

• the brances are separate but equal

• the executive branch has more power

What is one of the basic ideas of democracy

• the executive branch is the source of all power

• the government is more important than the individual

• property should be given to people according to their needs

• all people are equal under the law

Which important document was signed by King John in the 1200s granting certain rights to the English people and limiting the king’s power?

• Charter of English Rights

• Petition of Right

• English Bill of Rights

• Magan Carta

In 1765, which group of American colonists protested “taxation without representation” by sending a protest to the British King?

• Stamp Act Congress

• minutemen

• New Albany Patriots

• New England Confederation

Which group suggested that all American trade with Britain be stipped as a way of protesting the Intolerable Acts?

• US House of Rep

• American Parliament

• Second Continental Congress

• First Continental Congress

The meeting of delegates in Philadelphia in 1787, which later became known as the Constitutional Convention, was for the purpose of revising which document?

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Declaration of Rights

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Stamp Act of 1765