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Semester 1 Final Prep

Total questions: 52

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following was the earliest known law code in history?

a)

Magna Carta

b)

Hammurabi's Code

c)

Iroquois Great Law of Peace

d)

English Bill of Rights

2.

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?

a)

Habeas Corpus

b)

No Bills of Attainder

c)

No Ex Post Facto Laws

d)

Separation of Powers

3.

What source limited the King of England's power for the first time?

a)

Magna Carta

b)

Hammurabi's Code

c)

Iroquois Great Law of Peace

d)

English Bill of Rights

4.

The idea of "an eye for an eye" originates from what source?

a)

The Magna Carta

b)

Iroquois Great Law of Peace

c)

English Bill of Rights

d)

Hammurabi's Code

5.

Which of the following is the oldest living participatory democracy?

a)

The United States Government

b)

The Iroquois Confederacy

c)

English Parliament

d)

Hammurabi's Codes

6.

What type of government does the United States have?

a)

Direct Democracy

b)

Oligarchy

c)

Republic

d)

Monarchy

7.

What type of government has citizens voting and majority rule determines laws/decisions?

a)

Direct Democracy

b)

Representative Democracy

c)

Oligarchy

d)

Constitutional Monarchy

8.

What type of government has people voting for representatives to make decisions for them and lead?

a)

Representative Democracy

b)

Direct Democracy

c)

Communism

d)

Oligarchy

9.

What is the philosophical movement where people used rational thoughts to question accepted beliefs and traditions?

a)

The Renaissance

b)

The Enlightenment

c)

Genocide

d)

The Jim Crow Era

10.

What key term best refers to the agreement between people and government to create laws and protect rights?

a)

Natural Rights

b)

The Constitution

c)

Sovereignty

d)

Social Contract

11.

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)

A Writ of Habeas Corpus

b)

Ex Post Facto

c)

Bill of Attainder

d)

Trial by Jury

12.

What is NOT one of the natural rights John Locke says men are born with?

a)

Property

b)

The Pursuit of Happiness

c)

Life

d)

Liberty

13.

Which Enlightenment thinker was one of the first to suggest the idea of checks and balances?

a)

Montesquieu

b)

Voltaire

c)

Locke

d)

Rousseau

14.

What was the main reason Britain put so many taxes on the colonists?

a)

To pay off previous war debts

b)

To pay for Lexington and Concord

c)

Out of spite

d)

To pay for the Revolutionary War

15.

Which of the following concepts was Rousseau most known for?

a)

Separation of Powers

b)

Justified Revolution

c)

Checks and Balances

d)

Natural Rights

16.

Which term means "dividing power between state and federal governments?"

a)

Checks and Balances

b)

Social Contract

c)

Popular Sovereignty

d)

Federalism

17.

Why did the founders want to get rid of the Articles of Confederation?

a)

The national government was too weak

b)

Each state had its own currency

c)

There was no national army

d)

All of the Above

18.

What type of legislative representation did the New Jersey Plan want?

a)

Equal (1 per state)

b)

Population based

c)

Equal in the senate, population based in the House of Representatives

d)

60% of the slave population counted towards representation

19.

What was considered the first constitution of the United States?

a)

The Declaration of Independence

b)

The Constitution

c)

The Bill of Rights

d)

The Articles of Confederation

20.

What type of legislative representation did the Virginia Plan want?

a)

Equal (1 per state)

b)

Population Based

c)

Population based in the House of Representatives, Equal in the Senate

d)

60% of all slaves counted for representation

21.

How did the delegates at the Constitutional Convention decide to elect the head of the Executive Branch?

a)

Directly through popular vote

b)

Indirectly through the Electoral College

c)

Chosen by state legislatures

d)

Chosen by one or both houses of Congress

22.

What is the main part of the Legislative Branch?

a)

The President

b)

The Supreme Court

c)

Congress (House of Representatives and Senate)

d)

Federal and State Governments

23.

Which group supported the new Constitution and wanted to ratify it?

a)

Anti-Federalists

b)

Federalists

c)

Democrats

d)

Republicans

24.

What group was less organized, popular with common folk, and wanted a Bill of Rights

a)

Democrat-Republicans

b)

Federalists

c)

Constitutionalists

d)

Anti-Federalists

25.

The citizens that a member of congress represents are called what?

a)

Census

b)

Civilians

c)

Constituents

d)

District

26.

What occurs every 10 years and allows districts to be redrawn?

a)

Presidential Elections

b)

House of Representatives Election

c)

Senate Election

d)

Census

27.

Each state is given two members in the House of Representatives. True or false?

a)

True

b)

False

28.

How many total members are there in the U.S. House of Representatives?

a)

100

b)

50

c)

435

d)

538

29.

What is it called when a Senator debates over or talks about a proposed piece of legislation to delay or prevent a vote?

a)

Cloture

b)

Pigeonhole

c)

Filibuster

d)

Veto

30.

What is the guideline for all future cases that is created after a judgement called?

a)

Judgement

b)

Precedent

c)

Law

d)

President

31.

What is it called when a court overturns a law that is in conflict with the Constitution?

a)

Precedent

b)

Judicial Review

c)

Judgement

d)

Amendment

32.

What major case established the concept of judicial review?

a)

Marbury v. Madison

b)

McCulloch v. Maryland

c)

Brown v. Board

d)

Dredd Scott v. Sandford

33.

Which amendment includes the five freedoms, one of which includes the freedom of petition.

a)

1st

b)

5th

c)

10th

d)

9th

34.

Which amendment says that no warrants will be issued without probable cause?

a)

4th

b)

5th

c)

6th

d)

8th

35.

Which amendment gives the powers that are not given to the U.S. in the Constitution to the States

a)

9th

b)

10th

c)

7th

d)

3rd

36.

Which amendment prevents excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishment?

a)

7th

b)

5th

c)

6th

d)

8th

37.

Which amendment prevents double jeopardy?

a)

4th

b)

5th

c)

6th

d)

7th

38.

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?

a)

Ex Post Facto Laws

b)

Habeas Corpus

c)

Bill of Attainder

d)

A violation of the 3rd amendment

39.

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.

a)

Yes

b)

No

40.

What document was signed at the end of World War I that led to the rise of Hitler?

a)

Truman Doctrine

b)

Wilson's 14 Points

c)

The Treaty of Versailles

d)

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

41.

What was the name of the trials that put Nazi leaders/German war criminals on trial?

a)

Nuremberg Laws

b)

Nuremberg Trials

c)

Universal Declarations of Human Rights

d)

The Nazi Trials

42.

What is the name of the document that was passed after the Holocaust to make sure a similar event would never happen?

a)

The Treaty of Versailles

b)

The Truman Doctrine

c)

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

d)

The Nuremberg Principles

43.

Who chaired the U.N. Human Rights Commission and helped create the UDHR?

a)

FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

Eleanor Roosevelt

d)

Harry S. Truman

44.

Which of the following genocides is still denied today by the perpetrators?

a)

The Holocaust

b)

The Rwandan Genocide

c)

The Armenian Genocide

d)

The Cambodian Genocide

45.

Which genocide is different because the U.S. and world powers knew about it the whole time it happened (From start to finish)?

a)

The Holocaust

b)

The Rwandan Genocide

c)

The Uyghur Cultural Genocide

d)

The Armenian Genocide

46.

The United States and U.N. both intervened IN RWANDA during the Rwandan Genocide. True or false.

a)

True

b)

False

47.

What is the idea that the government is created by and subject to the will of the people?

a)

State Sovereignty

b)

Popular Sovereignty

c)

Social Contract

d)

Codified Laws

48.

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?

a)

Initiative

b)

Referendum

c)

Recall

d)

Judicial Review

49.

What allows citizens to vote on a ballot on whether to uphold or repeal a new law passed at the state level?

a)

Initiative

b)

Referendum

c)

Recall

d)

Judicial Review

50.

Which amendment in the Bill of Rights promises due process (Fair treatment through the judicial system)?

a)

4th

b)

5th

c)

6th

d)

8th

51.

How did the South respond to African American freedom after the Civil War?

a)

Sharecropping and prison slave labor

b)

Black Codes

c)

Disenfranchisement of African Americans

d)

All of the Above

52.

What do we call the time period from the 1870's to 1960's (Specifically in the South)?

a)

Reconstruction Era

b)

Jim Crow Era

c)

Industrialization Era

d)

The Jump Jim Crow Times