Civics Final Exam Review

How is the President of the United States elected?

• Popular Vote

• Primary Vote

• Electoral College

• The U.S. House and Senate vote

What was one reason for the creation of a bicameral legislature in the United States?

• It helped clarify the expressed powers of Government

• It balanced power of the people with the states

• Needed independent state governments

• The Articles of Confederation would fail without it.

True or False: Thomas Jefferson was a Federalist

• True

• False

What did Washington warn America about when he wrote his Farewell Address?

• The Threat of Democracy

• Establishing foreign relations with other countries

• The Division of Political Parties

• All of the Above

The group most likely to approve the Articles of Confederation would be:

• Those who feared a strong central government

• bankers, merchants, financiers

• The League of Friendship

• Former officers in the Continental Army

What is the significance of the 14th Amendment?

• Gave newly freed slaves the freedom to vote

• Abolished Slavery

• Granted newly freed slaves American Citizenship and equal rights

• It was an extension to the Emancipation Proclamation

The greatest achievement of the government under the Articles of Confederation was its establishment of

• A strong Central Government

• A general postwar prosperity

• A system for orderly settlement out West

• A termination date to end the Atlantic Slave Trade

Why did the Framers of the Constitution want the Separation of Powers?

• To elect a lot of people in power

• To make sure that citizens could be hear

• To make sure that no single branch of government had too much power

• to mode the U.S. government after England's government

Which Enlightenment thinker developed the concept of separation of powers?

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

• John Locke

In the Constitution, what is the "separation of powers?"

• Having 3 branches of government

• The Supreme Court to make sure there are good laws

• Having a weak executive branch

• having a president and vice president