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WorksheetsAmerican Government - Chapter 2
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The concept that a government's power was not absolute
a)
Limited Government
b)
Representative Government
c)
Interstate Commerce
2.
A government in which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government?
a)
Representative Government
b)
Limited Government
c)
Direct Government
d)
Interstate Commerce
3.
An agreement prohibiting trade?
a)
Embargo
b)
Boycott
c)
Blockade
d)
Embankment
4.
Not to buy
a)
Boycott
b)
Embargo
c)
Interstate Commerce
d)
Limited Government
5.
Trade between the states
a)
Interstate Commerce
b)
Embargo
c)
Boycott
d)
Nice
6.
King John was forced to sign what famous document?
a)
Magna Carta
b)
Declaration of Independence
c)
Constitution
7.
What is one of the house of English Government?
a)
House of Lords
b)
Congress
c)
House of Representatives
d)
Senate
8.
Who believed that people need government to maintain order because they have not yet learned to live in groups without conflict?
a)
Thomas Hobbes
b)
John Locke
c)
Jean Jacques Rousseau
d)
Charles Louis de Montesquieu
9.
Who believed in "Natural Rights"?
a)
Thomas Hobbes
b)
John Locke
c)
Jean Jacques Rousseau
d)
Charles Louis de Montesquieu
10.
Who believed that people created a social contract that allowed them to preserve their rights while at the same time creating law and government?
a)
Jean Jacques Rousseau
b)
Thomas Hobbes
c)
John Locke
d)
Charles Louis de Montesquieu
11.
Who said the famous quote, "There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person?
a)
Thomas Hobbes
b)
John Locke
c)
Jean Jacques Rousseau
d)
Charles Louis de Montesquieu
12.
What document provided for people to choose their own leaders and to make their own laws?
a)
Mayflower Compact
b)
Magna Carta
c)
Declaration of Independence
d)
English Bill of Rights
13.
What document gave people the right to elect the governor, judges, and representatives to make laws.
a)
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
b)
Mayflower Compact
c)
Magna Carta
14.
What act was the first direct tax on the colonists?
a)
Stamp Act
b)
Coercive Act
c)
Sugar Act
d)
Townshend Act
15.
A group of colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians dumped 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor. What was this event called?
a)
Boston Tea Party
b)
Boston Massacre
c)
French and Indian War
d)
Hurricane Henry
16.
What act closed Boston Harbor?
a)
Stamp Act
b)
Coercive Act
c)
Sugar Act
17.
What leader formed the first Committee of Correspondence in Boston?
a)
Samuel Adams
b)
John Adams
c)
Johnny Appleseed
d)
George Washington
18.
Who as President of the 2nd Continental Congress?
a)
John Hancock
b)
George Washington
c)
Thomas Jefferson
d)
James Madison
19.
Who wrote Common Sense?
a)
Mr. Lura
b)
Thomas Paine
c)
Mark Twain
d)
John Hancock
20.
How many votes did each state have under the Articles of Confederation?
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
21.
The U.S. government owed how much money at the end of the French and Indian War?
a)
$30 million
b)
$40 million
c)
$50 million
d)
$60 million
22.
What allowed the government to survey and divide the NW Territory into townships of equal acreage?
a)
Land Ordinance of 1785
b)
NW Ordinance of 1787
c)
Shay's Rebellion
d)
New Jersey Plan
23.
What plan had a provision that stated once land areas reached certain population levels, they could appoint a governor and judges, elect legislators, and achieve state hood on an equal basis with the original 13 states?
a)
Land Ordinance of 1785
b)
NW Ordinance of 1787
c)
Shay's Rebellion
24.
What rebellion was led by Daniel Shays?
a)
Shay's Rebellion
b)
Shay's Revolution
c)
American Revolution
d)
Russian Revolution
25.
What was the name given to those people who favored the new constitution?
a)
Federalists
b)
Anti-Federalists
26.
The name given to those people who opposed the new constitution?
a)
Anti-Federalists
b)
Federalists
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