unit 1 chapter 2 social studies TEST

define self-government

• Self-government is the ability of people to rule themselves.

• Self-government is the rule of a single leader over a community.
• Self-government refers to the control of a community by an external authority.
• Self-government is the process of electing representatives from outside the community.

The _____ realized the importance of self government when the british government made policies that restricted their unalienable rights.

• colonists
• French allies
• Native Americans
• British government

A ______ can not do whatever it watns or whatever it thinks best.

• monarch

• federal government

• limited government

• full government

A ______ has only the powers that have been given to it.

• monarch

• federal government

• limited government

• full government

the ____ was an agreement among the states. The states agreed to give the national government a few powers byt they kep most power for themselves.

• Articles of Confederation
• Constitution
• Bill of Rights
• Federalist Papers

the ___ decided what state governments would look like after the revolutionary war.

• British Parliament
• ordinary people

• State Legislatures
• Local Town Councils

a weakness of the articles of confederation was that the ____ did not have much power.

• federal government
• judicial branch
• state governments
• local governments

the purpose of the ____ in May 1787 was to strengthen the articles of confederation.

• Continental Congress
• Bill of Rights
• Federalist Papers
• Constitutional Convention

according to ____ the purpose of the constitutional convention was to give congress more power.

• George Washington
• Alexander Hamilton
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison

to encourage the ____ to speak freely, the convention voted to keep all its discussions private.

• audience
• organizers
• participants
• speakers