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WorksheetsUNIT 1 FOUNDATIONS OF GOV'T CH 1-2
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 21mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What replaced the Articles of Confederation?
a)
Articles of Confederation
b)
Declaration of Independence
c)
United States Constitution
d)
The President of the United States
2.
What type of government is based on the ideal that all citizens are equal before the law?
a)
autocracy
b)
democracy
c)
monarchy
d)
oligarchy
3.
Which type of government consists of a single, self-appointed ruler who controls an entire country?
a)
autocracy
b)
democracy
c)
oligarchy
d)
confederacy
4.
A country with a queen and formal laws that are overseen by a Parliament and a Prime Minister.
a)
an autocracy
b)
a dictatorship
c)
a federal republic
d)
a constitutional monarchy
5.
The "Rule of Law" states that
a)
there should be barriers to the right to vote.
b)
a just government derives its power from the governed.
c)
all people, including those who govern, must obey the law.
d)
a country's citizens are the source of a government's power.
6.
The Declaration of Independence and the "Social Contract Theory" both arose from which movement?
a)
Realism
b)
Humanism
c)
the Enlightenment
d)
Existentialism
7.
Locke said that if the government fails to protect natural rights, citizens have the right to
a)
divide the government into 3 separate parts.
b)
elect new government leaders to rule the country.
c)
overthrow the government and establish a new one.
d)
create a direct democracy and allow individuals to govern.
8.
Which European philosopher believed the purpose of government was to protect natural rights?
a)
John Locke
b)
Adam Smith
c)
Baron de Montesquieu
d)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
9.
Anti-Federalists argued that the Constitution would -
a)
create an elite upper class which would run the country.
b)
favor slaveholding states over non-slaveholding states.
c)
put too much power into individual states.
d)
place too much power in a central government.
10.
Which principle allows the national government and the states have their own criminal justice systems?
a)
Limited Government
b)
Checks and Balances
c)
Popular Sovereignty
d)
Federalism
11.
A president can only serve for two terms. What principle is this an example?
a)
Limited Government
b)
Checks and Balances
c)
Separation of Powers
d)
Federalism
12.
How many votes, from the 13 states, did it take to make a change (amendment) to the Articles of Confederation?
a)
1
b)
7
c)
9
d)
13
13.
Under the Articles of Confederation, how many votes did each state get when voting on a new law?
a)
Zero
b)
One
c)
Two
d)
Three
14.
How many branches of government were there under the Articles of Confederation?
a)
One
b)
Zero
c)
Two
d)
Three
15.
Which of the following was NOT a power of Congress under the Articles of Confederation?
a)
Create a plan for the Northwest Territory
b)
Negotiate treaties
c)
Levy taxes
d)
Declare war and peace
16.
Which plan for state representation did the small states support, and how was representation supposed to be based?
a)
The Virginia Plan; population
b)
The New Jersey Plan; equality
c)
The Virginia Plan; equality
d)
The Virginia Plan; population
17.
Which type of government uses censorship to limit what its citizens can see/do/read?
a)
Democracy
b)
Republic
c)
Autocracy
18.
What power structure involves the local governments having all control?
a)
Local
b)
Unitary
c)
Autocracy
d)
Confederation
19.
WHO WAS CALLED THE "FATHER OF THE CONSTITUTION"?
a)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
b)
GEORGE WASHINGTON
c)
THOMAS JEFFERSON
d)
JAMES MADISON
20.
America has a______ form of goveermnet?
a)
Republic
b)
communist
c)
socialist
d)
fascits
21.
The four types of economic systems are:
a)
Traditional, Command, Mixed, & Market
b)
Traditional, Command, Combined, & Market
c)
Communism, Capitalism, Free Market, and Macroeconomics
d)
Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Individual, and Traditional.
22.
Communist countries have what type of economic system?
a)
Market
b)
Mixed
c)
Command
d)
Traditional
23.
What type of economic system allows government and private businesses to make economic decisions?
a)
Market
b)
Mixed
c)
Traditional
d)
command
24.
The doctrine that government generally should not intervene in the marketplace:
a)
laissez faire
b)
self interest
c)
economic transition
d)
mixed economics
25.
Government owns some industries.
a)
Socialism
b)
Communism
c)
Capitalism
26.
Which was an effect of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
a)
American Revolution
b)
Giving states more power
c)
Shays' Rebellion
d)
Treaty of Paris 1783
27.
Under the Articles of Confederation, most of the power was where?
a)
Legislative branch
b)
the president
c)
the states
d)
national government
28.
Define The Legislative Branch
a)
the branch of government that executes, or carries out, the laws - the President
b)
the branch of government that makes the laws - US Congress
c)
the branch of government that interprets the laws and runs the court system - the judges
29.
Define House of Representatives
a)
the first ten amendments to the US Constitution
b)
people who opposed ratification of the Constitution
c)
official change, correction, or addition to a law or constitution
d)
one of the parts of the US Congress where the number of representatives for each state is has based on the state’s population
30.
Define Senate
a)
one of the parts of the US Congress where the number of representatives for each state is has based on the state’s population
b)
an agreement that was reached at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 which set up a two house legislative branch where each state would have equal representation in the Senate and representation in the House would be based on population
c)
one of the parts of the US Congress which has two representatives from each state
d)
to agree to
31.
Define Federalist
a)
the first ten amendments to the US Constitution
b)
- official change, correction, or addition to a law or constitution
c)
proposal by the small states to have one legislative body based on population
d)
people who supported ratification of the Constitution
32.
Which plan for state representation did the small states support?
a)
The Virginia Plan
b)
The New Jersey Plan
c)
The 3/5 Compromise
d)
The Good Plan
33.
Which states wanted to count enslaved people in the total population count?
a)
small states
b)
northern states
c)
western states
d)
southern states
34.
What was the name of Roger Sherman’s proposal that saved the convention by combining characteristics of the Virginia and New Jersey Plans?
a)
Great Compromise
b)
Three-Fifths Compromise
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Constitutional Compromise
35.
How much of their slave population would southern states be permitted to count?
a)
All of them
b)
Half
c)
Three out of every five
d)
None
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