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Civics Quarter 1 PMA Review

Total questions: 38

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which amendment defines citizenship?
a)
11th
b)
12th
c)
13th
d)
14th
2.
The idea that your citizenship is based upon your parents no matter where you are born.
a)
Law of Blood
b)
Law of Soil
3.
It is the idea that citizenship is based upon where you are born. 
a)
Law of Blood
b)
Law of Soil
4.

Define immigrant

a)

someone from a different country that visits another

b)

someone from a different country who comes here permanently

c)

someone from a different country who declines citizenship

d)

someone from a different country who is here for schooling

5.
Individuals consent to surrender some of their freedoms and submit to the authority of the ruler in exchange for protection of their rights.
a)
Popular Sovereignty
b)
Common Good
c)
Civilzation
d)
Social Contract
6.

Obligations or Duties are things you

a)

should do

b)

must do

7.

Responsibilities are something you

a)

should do

b)

must do

8.
The process that someone can become an American citizen after going through a process to achieve citizenship.
a)
Immigration
b)
Naturalization
c)
Propagation
d)
Materilization
9.

What is an agreement between people and the government?

a)

valar morghulis

b)

Natural Rights

c)

Social Contract

d)

Voting

10.
Enlightenment philosopher who believed that people had the right to life, liberty, and property
a)
Voltaire
b)
Jean Jacques Rousseau 
c)
John Locke 
d)
Baron de Montesquieu 
11.
Enlightenment philosopher who came up with the idea of separation of powers
a)
Baron de Montesquieu 
b)
John Locke
c)
Voltaire 
d)
Jean Jacques Rousseau
12.
Means that nobody is above the law. 
a)
Separation of Powers
b)
Rights of the Minority
c)
Constitution
d)
Rule of Law
13.

The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.

a)

English Bill of Rights

b)

Mayflower Compact

c)

The Civics Compact of 2019 created by First of His Name Todaro of Anthony

d)

Natural Rights

14.

Makes sure no one part of government gets too much control

a)

Rights of the Minority

b)

Consent of the Governed

c)

Rule of Law

d)

Separation of Powers

e)

Constitution

15.

Why did nobles make King John sign the Magna Carta?

a)

THey wanted to give the king unlimited power.

b)

They wanted to separate the church and state.

c)

They wanted to replace him with a different ruler.

d)

They wanted to limit the king's power.

16.

Which document created the world's first limited government?

a)

Magna Carta

b)

Declaration of Independence

c)

Treaty of Versailles

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

17.

What did the English Bill of Rights declare?

a)

bills for freedom

b)

rights of companies and services

c)

freedom to travel for kings

d)

rights and liberties of people

18.

The right of people to rule themselves independently

a)

Separation of Powers

b)

Self Government

c)

Common Sense

d)

The Mother of Children & Dragons Mrs. M-C Hammer

19.

Which document encouraged colonists to rebel against the king?

a)

The Magna Carta

b)

The English Bill of Rights

c)

The Mayflower Compact

d)

Common Sense

20.

An incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were teasing and taunting them; five colonists were killed.

a)

Preamble

b)

Coercive Acts

c)

Boston Tea Party

d)

Boston Massacre

21.

American colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty, disguised as Mohawk Native Americans, boarded three British ships and dumped British tea into the Boston harbor.

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

The Boston Massacre

c)

The Orlando Rage

d)

Coercive Acts

22.

The British levied punishments against the the colonist after the Boston Tea what were these punishments called

a)

The Townshend Acts

b)

The Tea Act

c)

The Punitive Acts

d)

The Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts

23.

When was the Declaration adopted?

a)

June 4th, 1776

b)

July 4th, 1776

c)

August 4th, 1777

d)

September 4th, 1777

24.

The fundamental document establishing the US as an independent nation, adopted on July 4, 1776. It declared the 13 colonies independent from Britain, offered reasons for the separation laid out the principles for which the Revolution was fought

a)

Olive Branch Petition

b)

Declaration of Independence

c)

Stamp Act of 1765

d)

The Mighty Joe Young Act

25.

Last colonial offering of peace; King George III ruled colonies in rebellion

a)

Olive Branch Petition

b)

Quartering Act of 1765

c)

Operation B.L.A.C.K.S.A.N.T.A. (Bringing Licorice, Apples, Cake, Kfc, Snaple After Nap Time Adjournment)

d)

Loyalists

26.
This was a tax on all printed materials in the 13 Colonies.
a)
Stamp Act
b)
Sugar Act
c)
Tea Act
d)
Townshend Act
27.
This type of American Colonist was in support of the British parliament.
a)
Patriot
b)
Loyalist
c)
Yes man
d)
Neutral
28.

Act forcing colonists to house and supply British forces in the colonies

a)

Quartering Act of 1765

b)

Patriots

c)

Stamp Act of 1765

d)

United States Act of 1776

29.

Colonists who wanted independence from Britain

a)

Patriots

b)

Federalists

c)

Anti-Federalists

d)

Loyalists

30.

Proposed and supported the Constitution

a)

Anti-federalist

b)

Federalist

31.

Opposed constitution until the Bill of Rights were included

a)

Anti-federalist

b)

Federalist

32.

First American constitution that established the United States as a loose confederation of states under a weak national Congress, which was not granted the power to regulate commerce or collect taxes.

a)

Shays' Rebellion

b)

Federalism

c)

confederal system

d)

Articles of Confederation (1781)

33.

Uprising in Massachusetts in an effort to prevent courts from foreclosing on the farms of those who could not pay the taxes

a)

Feudalism

b)

Shays' Rebellion

c)

Buddhism

d)

Boston Massacre

34.

A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments

a)

Federalism

b)

Civics

c)

Limited Government

d)

Anti-Government

35.

A form of government in which independent states unite to accomplish common goals.

a)

Popular Sovereignty

b)

confederal system

c)

Convention

d)

Avengers 4: End Game

36.

A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitution

a)

Federalism

b)

Civics

c)

Constitutional Convention

d)

popular sovereignty

37.

The study of the rights and duties of citizens

a)

Government

b)

History

c)

Shay's Rebellion

d)

Civics

38.

the notion that power lies with the people

a)

Constitutional Convention

b)

confederal system

c)

Popular sovereignty

d)

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