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Unit 3 & 5 Review: Individual Freedoms & Economic Systems

Total questions: 47

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the term for the right to vote?

a)

Abolition

b)

Double Jeopardy

c)

Suffrage

d)

Inflation

2.

What type of speech is defined as communication of ideas through thoughts or actions?

a)

Free Exercise Speech

b)

Establishment Speech

c)

Symbolic Speech

d)

Abolition Speech

3.

What person or group has the final say regarding the interpretation of the meaning of the Constitution?

a)

President

b)

Senate

c)

House of Representatives

d)

Supreme Court

4.

What is considered the main purpose of the Bill of Rights?

a)

Maintain Order

b)

Create a System of Laws

c)

Protect Individual Freedoms

d)

Organize the National Government

5.

What type of economy is most commonly associated with Communism?

a)

Market Economy

b)

Traditional Economy

c)

Command Economy

d)

Mixed Economy

6.

Things that are necessary for survival are most commonly referred to as what?

a)

Needs

b)

Wants

c)

Scarcity

d)

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

7.

The desires that can be satisfied by consuming a good or service is called what?

a)

Needs

b)

Wants

c)

Scarcity

d)

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

8.

These five freedoms (speech, press, assembly, petition, and religion) are aspects of which amendment?

a)

First

b)

Second

c)

Third

d)

Fourth

9.

The right to bear arms is which amendment?

a)

Second

b)

Third

c)

Fifth

d)

Sixteenth

10.

The third amendment prevents military and government encroachment on civil liberties by prohibiting the housing of soldiers in citizen homes.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

What amendment protects citizens from illegal searches and seizures, requires a search warrant, sometimes referred to as the privacy amendment?

a)

Fourth

b)

Sixth

c)

Eighth

d)

Tenth

12.

What amendment protects the rights of citizens accused of a crime, states that you cannot be put on trial without first being indicted, protects against double jeopardy, guarantees that you can’t be forced to testify against yourself (right to remain silent), guarantees due process of law, forbids government from taking property without payment?

a)

Third

b)

Fifth

c)

Eleventh

d)

Seventeenth

13.

What amendment guarantees the right to fair trial, must be told what you are being charged with, guaranteed a speedy, public trial by impartial jury, states that you are entitled to a lawyer?

a)

Fourth

b)

Sixth

c)

Twelfth

d)

Fourteenth

14.

The seventh amendment guarantees the right to trial by jury in civil cases if the amount of money is more than $20.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

The eighth amendment consists of protection from excessive bail as well as cruel and unusual punishment

a)

True

b)

False

16.

What amendment makes clear that the rights specifically spelled in the Constitution are not the only rights that are guaranteed?

a)

Seventh

b)

Eighth

c)

Ninth

d)

Tenth

17.

The tenth amendment gives all powers not specifically given to the United States government in the Constitution, to either the states or to the people.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

The three Civil War amendments are...

a)

2nd, 3rd, 4th

b)

11th, 12th, 13th

c)

16th, 17th, 18th

d)

13th, 14th, 15th

19.

Which amendment abolished slavery?

a)

11th

b)

12th

c)

13th

d)

14th

20.

Which amendment forbids states from denying any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

16th

21.

Which amendment guaranteed the right to vote to African Americans, prohibited denying the right to vote because of race, color or previous condition of servitude?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

16th

22.

The sixteenth amendment allowed for the collection of an income tax.

a)

True

b)

False

23.

The seventeenth amendment allowed for the direct election of U.S. senators.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

What are basic freedoms to think and to act that are protected and that all people have, usually pertain to individuals?

a)

Civil Rights

b)

Civil Liberties

25.

The incorporation doctrine is part of which amendment?

a)

18th

b)

14th

c)

21st

d)

24th

26.

Which part of the Bill of Rights guarantees each person the right to hold any religious belief they choose?

a)

Free Exercise Clause

b)

Establishment Clause

27.

What does the establishment clause of the First Amendment forbid?

a)

donations by individuals to churches

b)

private, non-governmental support for a particular religion

c)

prayer at any time in a public school

d)

government establishment or support of an official religion

28.

The value of the next best alternative or something that is given up to get something else that is wanted is called what?

a)

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

b)

Opportunity Cost

29.

Total dollar value of all final goods & services produced within the country in a year is known as what?

a)

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

b)

Opportunity Cost

30.

Single business with all of the power, controls all parts of an industry is called what?

a)

Monopoly

b)

Trust

31.

Group of several companies organized to benefit from high costs they all agree to charge is defined as what term?

a)

Monopoly

b)

Trust

32.

What court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine that legalized Jim Crow segregation?

a)

Brown vs. Board of Education

b)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

c)

Mapp vs. Ohio

d)

Miranda vs. Arizona

33.

What court case overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling and effectively made segregation illegal?

a)

Mapp vs. Ohio

b)

Miranda vs. Arizona

c)

Marbury vs. Madison

d)

Brown vs. Board of Education

34.

What type of political system is most often associated with a market economy?

a)

Communism

b)

Democracy

c)

Monarchy

d)

Dictatorship

35.

A maker of goods or a provider of services is called what?

a)

Consumer

b)

Producer

36.

A person who buys or uses goods or services is defined as what term?

a)

Consumer

b)

Producer

37.

General rise in the price level of goods & services, during the time when money loses its buying power is called what?

a)

Scarcity

b)

Inflation

c)

Factors of Production

d)

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

38.

The resources needed to produce goods and services is called what?

a)

Scarcity

b)

Inflation

c)

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

d)

Factors of Production

39.

Which amendment guaranteed the right vote regardless of sex, gave women the right to vote?

a)

16th

b)

17th

c)

18th

d)

19th

40.

The Twenty Fourth Amendment abolished the poll tax.

a)

True

b)

False

41.

The Twenty Sixth Amendment lowered the minimum voting age to 18 years old.

a)

True

b)

False

42.

Which of the following is an economic system in which people produce and distribute goods according to customs handed down from generation to generation?

a)

Command

b)

Market

c)

Traditional

d)

Mixed

43.

Which of the following is an economic system in which the government or a central authority makes all the economic decisions?

a)

Command

b)

Market

c)

Traditional

d)

Mixed

44.

A mixed economy is an economy that has elements of traditional, command, and market systems?

a)

True

b)

False

45.

The United States is considered a mixed economy.

a)

True

b)

False

46.

Which of the following is an economic system in which individual choice and voluntary exchange direct economic decisions?

a)

Traditional

b)

Market

c)

Mixed

d)

Command

47.

Laissez-faire comes from the French language generally meaning "let alone" or "let do."

a)

True

b)

False