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WorksheetsChapter 1 (GOV UPDATED)
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Most colonists supported King George's new tax acts and saw them as a way to improve the colonies infrastructure.
True
False
In a direct democracy, people vote on issues themselves rather than electing representatives to decide for them.
True
False
The Magna Carta is important because it established the principal of unlimited government.
True
False
In writing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson showed that he was greatly influenced by the ideas and writings of the Enlightenment thinker ____________ by writing about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Paine
Baron de Montesquieu
Voltaire
John Locke
Jean-Jacque Rousseau
How did the Second Continental Congress respond to British policies?
They started the French and Indian War
They chose a committee to write the Declaration of Independence explaining why the colonies should be free
They passed the Tea Act, allowing a British company to import tea to the colonies without paying taxes
They hired Thomas Paine to write Common Sense
Which of the following groups were responsible for the Declaration of Independence?
First Continental Congress
Second Continental Congress
Sons of Anarchy
House of Burgess
In Common Sense, Thomas Paine
begged colonists to show respect for King George
called for a religious movement similar to the Great Awakening
called for the colonists to rebel against the king
told colonists to use their common sense to see that the real problem for the colonies was France
What are natural rights?
Agreements amongst people relating to the government
Freedoms people possess relating to life, liberty, and property
Rights given to resources such as coal and oil
Rights reserved for monarchs
What laws were intended to punish Boston for resisting British rule?
The Tea Act
The Intolerable Acts
The Townshend Acts
The Stamp Act
One purpose of the First Continental Congress was to
write a letter to King George asking for respect of colonists rights
to declare war on Britain
to declare independence from Britain
to pass laws and govern the colonies
American colonists had
more rights than citizens of Britain
the same rights as the citizens of Britain
less rights than the citizens of Britain
none of the above
A government based on representative democracy is called
a city-state
a direct democracy
an empire
a republic
In a representative democracy
only men are considered citizens
monarchs have absolute power
government controls ever facet of life
people choose leaders to govern for them
The Magna Carta is important for establishing which of the following?
An agreement for governing the colony of Plymouth
The principal of limited government
The scientific discoveries of the Enlightenment
The principal of unlimited government
