WorksheetsRoots of American Democracy Practice Quiz
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
The American system of government most closely resembles that of which ancient culture?
Athenians
Romans
Egyptians
Inca
What document first established limited government in 1215?
Mayflower Compact
Hammurabi's Code
Declaration of Independence
Magna Carta
The Magna Carta guaranteed:
Protection from illegal imprisonment
Equal treatment under the law
Limits on taxation
All of the above
Which document transferred a large portion of British monarchical authority to Parliament?
The Constitution
The Petition of Right
The English Bill of Rights
The Mayflower Compact
What right is guaranteed by the English Bill of Rights?
The right to a fair bail
The right to due process of law
The right to petition the king
All of the above
What is the term for the European cultural movement that attempted to apply logic and reason to critically analyze and improve social, political, and cultural ideas?
Industrial Revolution
Enlightenment
Dark Ages
Glorious Revolution
What is the term for the hypothetical agreement between a citizenry and its government whereby the individual exchanges freedoms for protection?
Liberty agreement
Social contract
Ipso facto laws
Freedom compact
Which Enlightenment thinker is credited with having first posited the "natural" rights of life, liberty, and property?
Voltaire
Thomas Hobbes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Locke
Which Enlightenment thinker famously advocated the separation of a government's powers?
Thomas Hobbes
Baron de Montesquieu
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Francois-Marie Arouet
Francois-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, advocated for which freedom?
Speech
Religion
Trade
All of the above
Which is considered the first representative government in the Thirteen Colonies?
Habeas corpus
Mayflower Compact
House of Burgesses
American federal system
The Mayflower Compact established what form of government?
Representative democracy
Direct democracy
Dictatorship
Oligarchy
Which of the Thirteen Colonies was first to establish a written constitution?
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
Virginia
How did the British government rule in its North American colonies?
Parliament passed laws to control trade.
Parliament appointed governors.
British military personnel were quartered in the Thirteen Colonies.
All of the above
What was the main complaint from the Thirteen Colonies about British rule?
Although many colonies had democratic institutions, they seldom served the interests of the citizens.
Colonists were not represented in British Parliament.
The king was a tyrant.
Colonists were not kept informed of events in England.
The British government raised taxes in the Thirteen Colonies during the 1760s and 1770s in order to:
Pay off debt accumulated during the Seven Years' War.
Suppress a colonial revolt.
Exert pressure on the colonies to disband.
Abolish taxation on English citizens.
How did the Thirteen Colonies respond to the Royal Proclamation of 1763 that forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains?
Colonists were appreciative for the extra protection from the Native Americans to the west.
Colonists were uninterested.
Colonists were upset by restrictions on new settlements.
None of the above
How did colonists resist British (mis)rule?
Boycotts of British goods
Written protests
Willful disobedience of British laws
All of the above
What name was given to colonists who remained loyal to the British government despite rising discontentment?
Rebels
Union Jacks
Loyalists
Kingsmen
What was the goal of the First Continental Congress?
Establish laws for the united Thirteen Colonies
Coordinate a colonial response to the British government's unfair policies
Draft the Declaration of Independence
Discuss separation from Great Britain
What was an accomplishment of the Second Continental Congress?
Established the Continental Army as a defense against British aggression
Drafted and adopted the Declaration of Independence
Debated and adopted the Articles of Confederation
All of the above
The Articles of Confederation placed the majority of governing power:
In the hands of the federal government
In the hands of the state governments
In the hands of the people through a direct democracy
Balanced equally between the state governments and the confederation government
What political group favored a strong, national government over a collection of strong, individual state governments?
Democrats
Republicans
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Which document replaced the Articles of Confederation as the law of the land in America in March of 1789?
The United States Bill of Rights
The United States Declaration of Independence
The United States Congress
None of the above
Which part of the Constitution was added largely as a concession to the Anti-Federalists, who were wary of a strong national government?
The Preamble
Articles I-IV
The Bill of Rights
All of the above
