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WorksheetsSemester 1 Final Prep
Total questions: 52
Worksheet time: 26mins
Which of the following was the earliest known law code in history?
Magna Carta
Hammurabi's Code
Iroquois Great Law of Peace
English Bill of Rights
The president makes a law that says all people of a certain religion are to be arrested and receive the death penalty. This is unconstitutional because of what?
Habeas Corpus
No Bills of Attainder
No Ex Post Facto Laws
Separation of Powers
What source limited the King of England's power for the first time?
Magna Carta
Hammurabi's Code
Iroquois Great Law of Peace
English Bill of Rights
The idea of "an eye for an eye" originates from what source?
The Magna Carta
Iroquois Great Law of Peace
English Bill of Rights
Hammurabi's Code
Which of the following is the oldest living participatory democracy?
The United States Government
The Iroquois Confederacy
English Parliament
Hammurabi's Codes
What type of government does the United States have?
Direct Democracy
Oligarchy
Republic
Monarchy
What type of government has citizens voting and majority rule determines laws/decisions?
Direct Democracy
Representative Democracy
Oligarchy
Constitutional Monarchy
What type of government has people voting for representatives to make decisions for them and lead?
Representative Democracy
Direct Democracy
Communism
Oligarchy
What is the philosophical movement where people used rational thoughts to question accepted beliefs and traditions?
The Renaissance
The Enlightenment
Genocide
The Jim Crow Era
What key term best refers to the agreement between people and government to create laws and protect rights?
Natural Rights
The Constitution
Sovereignty
Social Contract
A person under arrest is asked to be brought before a judge for a trial because it is believed he is being unlawfully held. What is this an example of?
A Writ of Habeas Corpus
Ex Post Facto
Bill of Attainder
Trial by Jury
What is NOT one of the natural rights John Locke says men are born with?
Property
The Pursuit of Happiness
Life
Liberty
Which Enlightenment thinker was one of the first to suggest the idea of checks and balances?
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Locke
Rousseau
What was the main reason Britain put so many taxes on the colonists?
To pay off previous war debts
To pay for Lexington and Concord
Out of spite
To pay for the Revolutionary War
Which of the following concepts was Rousseau most known for?
Separation of Powers
Justified Revolution
Checks and Balances
Natural Rights
Which term means "dividing power between state and federal governments?"
Checks and Balances
Social Contract
Popular Sovereignty
Federalism
Why did the founders want to get rid of the Articles of Confederation?
The national government was too weak
Each state had its own currency
There was no national army
All of the Above
What type of legislative representation did the New Jersey Plan want?
Equal (1 per state)
Population based
Equal in the senate, population based in the House of Representatives
60% of the slave population counted towards representation
What was considered the first constitution of the United States?
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution
The Bill of Rights
The Articles of Confederation
What type of legislative representation did the Virginia Plan want?
Equal (1 per state)
Population Based
Population based in the House of Representatives, Equal in the Senate
60% of all slaves counted for representation
How did the delegates at the Constitutional Convention decide to elect the head of the Executive Branch?
Directly through popular vote
Indirectly through the Electoral College
Chosen by state legislatures
Chosen by one or both houses of Congress
What is the main part of the Legislative Branch?
The President
The Supreme Court
Congress (House of Representatives and Senate)
Federal and State Governments
Which group supported the new Constitution and wanted to ratify it?
Anti-Federalists
Federalists
Democrats
Republicans
What group was less organized, popular with common folk, and wanted a Bill of Rights
Democrat-Republicans
Federalists
Constitutionalists
Anti-Federalists
The citizens that a member of congress represents are called what?
Census
Civilians
Constituents
District
What occurs every 10 years and allows districts to be redrawn?
Presidential Elections
House of Representatives Election
Senate Election
Census
Each state is given two members in the House of Representatives. True or false?
True
False
How many total members are there in the U.S. House of Representatives?
100
50
435
538
What is it called when a Senator debates over or talks about a proposed piece of legislation to delay or prevent a vote?
Cloture
Pigeonhole
Filibuster
Veto
What is the guideline for all future cases that is created after a judgement called?
Judgement
Precedent
Law
President
What is it called when a court overturns a law that is in conflict with the Constitution?
Precedent
Judicial Review
Judgement
Amendment
What major case established the concept of judicial review?
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
Brown v. Board
Dredd Scott v. Sandford
Which amendment includes the five freedoms, one of which includes the freedom of petition.
1st
5th
10th
9th
Which amendment says that no warrants will be issued without probable cause?
4th
5th
6th
8th
Which amendment gives the powers that are not given to the U.S. in the Constitution to the States
9th
10th
7th
3rd
Which amendment prevents excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishment?
7th
5th
6th
8th
Which amendment prevents double jeopardy?
4th
5th
6th
7th
A person is arrested for wearing purple. It is not illegal YET, but the police officer arrested them because it will be illegal tomorrow. What is this an example of?
Ex Post Facto Laws
Habeas Corpus
Bill of Attainder
A violation of the 3rd amendment
If you live in the U.S. but are not a citizen, are you still entitled to the freedoms in the Bill of Rights? Yes or no.
Yes
No
What document was signed at the end of World War I that led to the rise of Hitler?
Truman Doctrine
Wilson's 14 Points
The Treaty of Versailles
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
What was the name of the trials that put Nazi leaders/German war criminals on trial?
Nuremberg Laws
Nuremberg Trials
Universal Declarations of Human Rights
The Nazi Trials
What is the name of the document that was passed after the Holocaust to make sure a similar event would never happen?
The Treaty of Versailles
The Truman Doctrine
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Nuremberg Principles
Who chaired the U.N. Human Rights Commission and helped create the UDHR?
FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Woodrow Wilson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Which of the following genocides is still denied today by the perpetrators?
The Holocaust
The Rwandan Genocide
The Armenian Genocide
The Cambodian Genocide
Which genocide is different because the U.S. and world powers knew about it the whole time it happened (From start to finish)?
The Holocaust
The Rwandan Genocide
The Uyghur Cultural Genocide
The Armenian Genocide
The United States and U.N. both intervened IN RWANDA during the Rwandan Genocide. True or false.
True
False
What is the idea that the government is created by and subject to the will of the people?
State Sovereignty
Popular Sovereignty
Social Contract
Codified Laws
A petition is signed by a large portion of the state in order to enact a law or hold a public vote. This is an example of what?
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Judicial Review
What allows citizens to vote on a ballot on whether to uphold or repeal a new law passed at the state level?
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Judicial Review
Which amendment in the Bill of Rights promises due process (Fair treatment through the judicial system)?
4th
5th
6th
8th
How did the South respond to African American freedom after the Civil War?
Sharecropping and prison slave labor
Black Codes
Disenfranchisement of African Americans
All of the Above
What do we call the time period from the 1870's to 1960's (Specifically in the South)?
Reconstruction Era
Jim Crow Era
Industrialization Era
The Jump Jim Crow Times
