Day 2 Quiz Government: Origins of American Government

What was established under the principle of limited government when King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215?

• representative government

• lassiez-faire economics

• the rule of law

• the English Bill of Rights

What 2 documents were examples of the principle of representative government in England?

• Petition of Right and Magna Carta

• Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights

• Petition of Right and the English Bill of Rights

• the Declaration of Independence and U. S. Constitution

Which type of colony in America did the King give to a group of people and was large self-governing?

• nudist colony

• royal

• proprietary

• corporate or charter

Why were the American colonies allowed to govern themselves for more than 150 years?

• because of their distance from England

• because the King George III wanted the colonies to be independent from England

• because the colonies paid for their own defense during the French and Indian War

• all of the above are correct

Why were the American colonist angry with the Stamp Act?

• because it was a tax on all paper goods

• because it was repealed and replaced with more taxes

• because the colonist felt it was taxation without representation

• none of the above are correct

What was important about the Battles of Lexington and Concord?

• 5 American colonist were killed by British troops

• it marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War with England

• delegates from almost all colonies sent petition protesting British taxes

• American colonist protested tea tax by throwing British tea into Boston harbor

What body of individuals acted as the 1st national government during the revolution?

• the First Continental Congress

• the Second Continental Congress

• the delegates to the Annapolis convention

• the 5 committee members who were to write a Declaration of Independence

Who was the philosopher that heavily influence the ideas that Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence?

• Thomas Hobbes

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Ben Franklin

• John Locke

Which of the following was not a main idea listed in the Declaration of Independence?

• declared the United States to be independent from France

• All human beings have “unalienable rights” that they’re born with and cannot be taken away

• Governments receive their powers from “the consent of the governed”

• If government fails to protect citizens’ natural rights, then the “people have the right to alter or abolish it and to institute new government"

What was the main weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• no executive to enforce laws

• no power to tax

• no power to regulate trade

• all 13 States were needed to amend or change the Articles