Shaping the US Govt Quiz

Author is Thomas Jefferson

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

10 Rights of Americans are listed.

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

It sets up our government.

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

Guarantees us freedom of speech.

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

It replaced the weak Articles of Confederation.

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

A war with Britain followed this being written.

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

Which of the following documents stated grievances against the King of Great Britain and affirmed certain unalienable rights?

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London
• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
• Declaration of Independence
• US Constitution

Rights that cannot be taken away, rights we are born with......

• charter
• democracy
• unalienable
• constitution

Which is a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• Congress couldn't raise taxes

• Weak central government

• No control over trade

• All of the these

The protection of people’s rights and representative legislatures are two concepts in U.S. government that were borrowed from

• the Articles of Confederation and the Emancipation Proclamation.
• the First and Fifth Amendments.
• the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights.
• the French Constitution and the Mayflower Compact.