Missouri EOC Review

Study the graph. Based on the chart, which statement is MOST accurate?

• Health received the least amount of federal funding.

• National defense received less federal funding than Medicare.

• Social Security received the greatest amount of federal funding.

• Transportation received more federal fudning than veterans' benefits and services.

Which statement BEST explains why a citizen would participate in an interest group rather than a political party?

• Political parties get less media coverage.

• Political parties are more expensive to join.

• Interest groups focus on a specific political issue.

• Interest groups have more members than political parties.

Match the following quote to the correct document: "The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for t heir common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever."

• Constitution of the United States

• Articles of Confederation

• Mayflower Compact

• Declaration of Independence

Match the quotation to the correct document: "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them...."

• Constitution of the United States

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• Mayflower Compact

Match each quotation to the correct document: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfection Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this...."

• Constitution of the United States

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• Mayflower Compact

Read the quotation of Isaac Wilkins, a member of the General Assembly of the New York colony. He wrote the address below before he left his home and family in New York for England. Based on the quotation, which phrase best describes the writer?

• patriot

• loyalist

• Federalist

• Anti-Federalist

Which underlined statement BEST illustrates the major economic weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• "the sole and exclusive right and power of regulation the alloy and value of coin struck"

• "Congress had the right to regulate all forms of American currency"

• "the national government could print money"

• "America had no uniform system of currency"

Study the map of the American colonies during the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Match each pan for representation in the Constitution to the state - New Jersey or Virginia - that would support the plan.

• New Jersey would support representation based on Population.

• New Jersey would support representation that was equal among states.

• Virginia would support representation based on population.

• Virginia would support representation that was equal among states.

Based on the quotation, which weakness of the Articles of Confederation is described?

• no power to tax citizens

• inability to control commerce

• lack of a strong central government

• difficulty making changes to government

Read the excerpt. Which ideas expressed in the excerpt are addressed in the United States Constitution? Select ALL that apply.

• judicial review

• right to assemble

• due process of law

• limited government

• divine right of kings