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Civics EOC Review Questions

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is John Locke?

a)

Enlightenment Thinker

b)

Founding Father

2.

What are natural rights?

a)

life, liberty, property

b)

freedom of expression

3.

Explain the idea of the social contract.

a)

Give up rights for government protection.

b)

self-government

4.

What is the difference between John Locke’s idea of natural rights and Thomas Jefferson?

a)

life, liberty, and property v. life, liberty, and unalienable rights

b)

representative democracy and consent of the governed

5.

Who is Montesquieu?

a)

Enlightenment Thinker

b)

Framer

6.

What is the constitutional principle of separation of powers?

a)

government divided into parts

b)

checks and balances

7.

How did the idea of separation of powers influence James Madison?

a)

3 branches

b)

limited government

8.

What was the Enlightenment?

a)

period of new ideas

b)

religious ideas

9.

Natural Law

a)

born with rights

b)

state of nature

10.

How did the Enlightenment ideas impact the founding father's beliefs on government?

a)

power to the people

b)

authoritarian

11.

What is the Magna Carta?

a)

limited government, rule of law, due process

b)

consent of governed

12.

What ideas were taken from the English Bill of Rights?

a)

1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th amendments

b)

natural rights

13.

Which document gave the founding fathers the idea of self-government?

a)

Mayflower Compact

b)

Magna Carta

14.

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense influenced the colonist to do what?

a)

support American independence

b)

support federalism

15.

Limited Monarchy

(a)  

16.

Self-government

a)

government for the people, by the people

b)

dictatorship

17.

How did earlier documents influence colonist view on government?

a)

people rule and power divided

b)

sovereign

18.

Which document declared independence from Great Britain?

a)

Declaration of Independence

b)

Common Sense