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American GOVT Unit 1

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The USA is a ___________.

a)

Representative Democracy

b)

Direct Democracy

c)

Totalitarian Dictatorship

d)

Authoritarian Dictatorship

2.

A government with both a King/Queen and a Parliament is called a _____________.

a)

Constitutional Monarchy

b)

Republic

c)

Autocracy

d)

Theocracy

3.

Which Form of Government has a religious leader as the head of government?

a)

Oligarchy

b)

Anarchy

c)

Theocracy

d)

Republic

4.

Who founded Capitalism?

a)

Adam Smith

b)

John Locke

c)

Thomas Hobbes

d)

Karl Marx

5.

Who founded Socialism ?

a)

Adam Smith

b)

John Locke

c)

Thomas Hobbes

d)

Karl Marx

6.

Which is an example of a Authoritarian Dictatorship?

a)

Syria

b)

Japan

c)

South Korea

d)

North Korea

7.

Which is an example of a Totalitarian Dictatorship?

a)

Syria

b)

Japan

c)

South Korea

d)

North Korea

8.

Which Form of Government has a non-elected group as the head of government?

a)

Oligarchy

b)

Anarchy

c)

Theocracy

d)

Republic

9.

The Ancient Greece is a ___________.

a)

Representative Democracy

b)

Direct Democracy

c)

Totalitarian Dictatorship

d)

Authoritarian Dictatorship

10.

The India is an___________.

a)

Representative Democracy

b)

Oligarchy

c)

Totalitarian Dictatorship

d)

Authoritarian Dictatorship

11.
king that led England into civil war; wouldn't allow Parliament to meet for 10 years
a)
Charles II
b)
James I
c)
Charles I
d)
George I
12.
One of the Enlightenment's best known philosophers was __
a)
Hobbes
b)
Voltaire
c)
Locke
d)
Rosseau
13.
believed there should be separate branches of government
a)
Locke
b)
Montesquieu
c)
Rosseau
d)
Voltaire
14.

John Locke, Jean Rousseau, and Voltaire all lived during what was called the:

a)

Dark Ages

b)

Middle Ages

c)

Enlightenment

d)

Depression

15.
An agreement between people and the government to give up some rights for safety and protection
a)
Philosophers
b)
Democracy
c)
Social Contract
d)
Divine Right of Kings
16.
Enlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property.
a)
John Locke
b)
Montesquieu
c)
Rousseau
d)
Voltaire
17.
Wrote the book, Leviathan, during the English Civil War
a)
Hobbes
b)
Rousseau
c)
Montesquieu
d)
Locke
18.
Which series of Acts punished the town of Boston for the Boston Tea Party
a)
Intolerable Acts
b)
Quartering Acts
c)
Stamp Act
d)
Sugar Act
19.
Trained soldiers that were prepared to fire at a minutes notice were which of the following?
a)
Redcoats
b)
British soldiers
c)
Minutemen
d)
None of the above
20.
_______ was when the Sons of Liberty dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
a)
Tea Act
b)
Boston Tea Party
c)
Quartering Act
d)
Boston Massacre
21.
_______ taxed all legal documents such as books, pamphlets, newspapers, and deck of cards
a)
Stamp Act
b)
Boston Tea Party
c)
Quartering Act
d)
Boston Massacre
22.
_______ was an incident where British soldiers panicked and shot and killed five colonists in Boston.
a)
Stamp Act
b)
Boston Tea Party
c)
Quartering Act
d)
Boston Massacre
23.
Why did King George III tax the colonists so heavily?
a)
He hated the colonist
b)
He wanted more money for himself
c)
The national debt increase from the French and Indian War
d)
To make money for the colonies
24.
What 2 countries were fighting in the French and Indian War?
a)
America and France
b)
France and Britain
c)
Britain and Germany
d)
France and Spain
25.

What treaty ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years War?

a)

Treaty of Versailles of 1763

b)

Treaty of French and Indians of 1763

c)

Treaty of Paris of 1763

d)

Treaty of Spanish and Americans of 1763

26.

Who was put in charge of the Continental Army?

a)

Thomas Paine

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

George Mason

d)

George Washington

27.

What year did the Second Continental Congress meet?

a)

1492

b)

1776

c)

1215

d)

1996

28.

What big thing did the Second Continental Congress declare?

a)

bankrupcy

b)

null and void

c)

independence

d)

hunger

29.
Why was the Declaration of Independence written?
a)
To stop taxes from the British Empire.
b)
To make a United States army.
c)
To gain independence from the British Empire
d)
To install their own king in America
30.

A "Social Contract" is an agreement between a ruler and who?

a)

Monarchy

b)

Dictator

c)

Citizens

d)

Aliens

31.

This man wrote the book titled Leviathan

a)

Voltaire

b)

John Locke

c)

Jean Jaque Rousseau

d)

Thomas Hobbs

32.

John Locke inspired the writing of this important document by Thomas Jefferson

a)

US Constitution

b)

The Magna Carta

c)

The Declaration of Independence

d)

English Bill of Rights

33.

Why were the colonists being taxed so heavily?

a)

To pay for the French and Indian War

b)

Because the King felt like it

c)

Because they wanted a revolution

d)

They owed a lot of money to China

34.

The French and Indian war was...

a)

French/Native Americans fought the British colonists for land

b)

French and Native Americans fought each other for land

c)

British colonists fought the Native Americans for food

d)

French/Native Americans fought British colonists for tea

35.
This Act taxed documents that required an English stamp such as marriage licences, divorce decrees, bill of laden for trading, receipts, land documents and additionally to curb gambling in the colonies dice and cards 
a)
Tea Act
b)
Stamp Act
c)
Intolerable Act
d)
Quartering Act
36.
1.  Where were the first shots of the Revolutionary War fired?
a)
Lexington and Concord
b)
Boston
c)
Saratoga
d)
Yorktown

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