Q1 Review - Civics

Which of the following was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• The government did not have a separate judicial branch

• The central government had too much power

• The president was able to collect taxes freely

• The government could easily make new laws and enforce them

How did the U.S. Constitution address the problem under the Articles of Confederation that Congress had no power to ensure its laws were followed by the states?

• Added the Judicial branch

• Ask another country for assistance

• Wrote more laws asking states to follow the laws

• Added an Executive branch

To change the Articles of Confederation, all 13 states needed to agree. In the Constitution we only need _/_

• 3/4

• 2/3

• 1/13

• 5/6

Which event was important because it made leaders, like George Washington, realize that the Articles of Confederation needed to be replaced with a strong central government?

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Civil War

• Stamp Act

• Shay's Rebellion

What did many American colonists use Thomas Paine's Common Sense to justify?

• Attack on Britain

• Loyalty to the King

• Separation from Britain

• Attacks on British Merchants

The Federalist were a group who favored a ______.

• weak central government

• no government at all

• strong central government

• staying loyal to the English

The Anti-federalist wanted to change the Articles of Confederation because they feared a strong central government. What did they ask to be added to the Constitution?

• 14th Amendment

• Bill of Rights

• The Executive branch

• They had no request that mattered

A set of published articles and essays written by leaders like James Madison to support ratification of the Constitution were called?

• Anti-federalist papers

• Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

• Federalist papers

The Declaration of Independence included these complaints EXCEPT (which one does not belong)

• Taxation without representation

• Quartering Troops

• Suspending trial by jury

• Allowing the wealthy to avoid local laws

"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights." Thomas Jefferson was influenced to write this from which Enlightenment thinker?

• Montesquieu

• Benjamin Franklin

• Rosseau

• John Locke