Unit 4 Government Test Review

a government that is run by the people

• The Preamble

• framers

• democracy

• The Founding Fathers

• civic responsibility

_____________________for a citizen include participating in government by obeying laws and voting

• The Preamble

• framers

• democracy

• The Founding Fathers

• civic responsibility

The introductory statement of The U.S. Constitution is called _________________ and includes the Constitution’s fundamental purposes and guiding principles.

• The Preamble

• framers

• democracy

• The Founding Fathers

• civic responsibility

The ____________ are those men at the Constitutional Convention who wrote the United States Constitution.

• framers

• The Preamble

• democracy

• The Founding Fathers

• civic responsibility

The political leaders and statesmen who signed the Declaration of Independence, took part in the Revolutionary War, and established the U.S. Constitution are known as _________________________.

• The Preamble

• framers

• democracy

• The Founding Fathers

• civic responsibility

The Supreme Court makes up which branch of the U.S. Government?

• Cabinet

• Executive

• Legislative

• Judicial

The Executive branch of the U.S. Government is made up of the President and ________________________.

• The Supreme Court and Senate

• The Cabinet and Vice President

• The Congress and the House

• The Judicial and Legislative Branch

The first government in place after the American Revolution was written in a document known as ______________.

• The Treaty of Paris

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Preamble

• The Northwest Ordinance

The Constitutional Convention was held in 1787 to improve the Articles of Confederation because ________________.

• The Founding Fathers couldn’t agree on a government

• The framers wanted to copy the Treaty of Paris

• The Articles of Confederation was too weak to keep order

• All of the above

The House of Representatives and the Senate make up the ______________.

• Executive branch

• Articles of Confederation

• Judicial branch

• Legislative branch