US Government CH 2 Review

A government in which people elect delegates to make laws for them and to conduct the operations of government is called a

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Government

• Limited Government

Leaders such as Thomas Jefferson formed committees of correspondence that

• began writing a national constitution

• established colonial legislatures

• sent soldiers to fight in the French and Indian War

• urged resistance to the British.

After considerable discussion, the First Continental Congress

•  decided to go to war against the British.

• established a central government and chose John Hancock as its president

• imposed an embargo on Britain.

•  instructed the colonies to create written constitutions.

The Declaration of Independence states that governments

• can establish standing armies without the consent of the legislatures.

• derive their powers from the consent of the governed.

• do not have the right to tax those they govern.

• have divine rights that set them above the people they govern.

In 1776, states began creating written constitutions because they

• knew that once they were independent, they needed orderly governments.

• realized they needed British protection in order to survive.

• wanted the states to be united under a single national government.

• wanted to increase the amount of goods they were trading with Britain.

The colonists used word-of-mouth and printing to share the events leading to the Declaration of Independence; today we could use technologies such as e-mail to accomplish this task.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Shays’s Rebellion forced leaders to realize that the Articles were too weak.

• TRUE

• FALSE

An important accomplishment of the Articles of Confederation was that it

• created fair policies for settling lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• developed a national court system.

• stopped the ability of states to charge tariffs on goods imported from other states.

• strengthened the national government’s ability to levy and collect taxes

A major reason for Shays’s Rebellion was that

• citizens were upset about farm foreclosures (banks seizing their property)

• Congress wanted more power over the states

• legislators thought the central government should provide better security

• states could not agree on how western lands should be settled.

New Jersey delegates did not support the Virginia Plan because they thought

•  the judicial branch would not be independent.

•  the legislature would be able to control the executive branch.

• the number of votes a state had in the legislature should be based on population

• it gave too much power to the large states.