WorksheetsAmerican Founding Documents
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
This document created a stronger national government with 3 branches.
Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
This document was written to help get the Constitution ratified by limiting the government’s powers
Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
This document declared our independence from Great Britain
Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
This document created our current government and set up a system of checks and balances
Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
This document protects the rights of citizens of the United States of America
Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
This document created the United States of America and supports equality for all
Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
The Bill of Rights was added to the U.S. Constitution primarily to
establish fair and impartial elections
protect individual rights
guarantee voting privileges to minorities
provide the President with power in times of emergency
What guarantees freedom of the press, of speech and of religion to individuals in the U.S.?
The U.S. Constitution
The Declaration of Independence
The Bill of Rights
The Articles of Confederation
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
... that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain ___?___
Unalienable rights
Equalities of opportunity
Repeated injuries and abuses
Duties and responsibilities
The term _________________ means to approve.
popular sovereignty
ratify
federalism
republicanism
The Founding Fathers protected freedom of the press in the Bill of Rights because they —
wanted to secure the authority of the federal government
so the government would be accountable to the people.
wanted the government would publish a national newspaper.
hoped that the government would establish public libraries.
unalienable rights of life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness acknowledge the importance of
the community
the individual
the government
the state
Popular sovereignty is an important characteristic of democratic government because
government cannot tell citizens what to do.
the three branches of government can check one another
citizens are able to vote and participate in government
citizens are given life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness
Which principle prevents one branch of the federal government from being too powerful?
Popular Sovereignty
Checks and Balances
Republican government
Judicial Review
Which excerpt from the Declaration of Independence describes the Enlightenment idea of natural rights?
"... all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with ... Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
"He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of people."
"We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and have conjured the by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations ..."
"... whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government ..."
The rights to alter or abolish the government was first proclaimed in what U.S. document?
Declaration of Independence
Northwest Ordinance
Articles of Confederation
Ohio Bill of Rights
According to the Declaration of Independence, where does government get its power?
From the Unite States Constitution
From elected representatives
From the consent of the governed (the people)
From the military leaders
The Declaration of Independence argued that:
Nations cannot be divided and a people must never secede from their mother nation.
People should revolt when they suffer deep injustices.
The British government was to blame for the evils experienced by the colonists.
Revolution is justifiable whenever people become angry with their government for any reason.
Inspiration for the Bill of Rights goes all the way back to medieval England, and the signing of this document by King John in 1215.
Declaration of Independence
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Magna Carta
Virginia Declaration of Rights
