Chapter 2 Test

Colonist valued limited government because they...

• believed monarchs should have absolute power over their people

• did not accept the concept of a representative government

• thought people should be protected from punishment by an unjust government

• thought that order could be maintained without a government

What document stated that monarchs could not interfere with parliamentary elections?

• the English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• the New Testament

• the Old Testament

Which of John Locke's beliefs had a major influence on the colonists?

• All people have certain "natural" or inalienable rights such as the right to liberty

• Monarchs are appointed by God and should have supreme power

• people need government to maintain order and prevent conflict

• The powers of government must be separated

Leaders such as Thomas Jefferson formed committees of correspondence that...

• began writing a national constitution

• established colonial legislatures

• sent soldiers to fight in the French and Indian War

• urged resistance to Britain

After considerable discussion, the First Continental Congress...

• decided to go to war against Britain

• established a central government and chose John Hancock as its president

• imposed an embargo on Britain

• instructed the colonies to create written constitutions

The Declaration of Independence states that governments...

• can establish standing armies without the consent of the legislatures

• derive their powers form the consent of the governed

• do not have the right to tax those they govern

• have divine rights that set them above the people they govern

As the Articles of Confederation were written, a major debate centered around whether ...

• slavery should be legal

• the government should have both an executive and a legislative branch

• the national government or state and local governments should be stronger

• there should be an army under the control of the national government

A serious problem following the revolutionary war was...

• many states refused to help pay off the extensive war debt

• the national government could not regulate affairs with Native Americans

• the national government was unable to coin money

• the states refused to give the central government the right to make treaties

An important accomplishment of the Articles of Confederation was that it...

• created fair policies for settling lands West of the Appalachian Mountains

• developed a national court system

• stopped the ability of states to charge tariffs on goods imported from other states

• strengthened the national government's ability to levy and collect taxes

A major reason for Shay's Rebellion was that...

• citizens were upset about farm foreclosures

• Congress wanted more power over the states

• Legislators thought the central government should provide better security

• states could not agree on how western lands should be settled