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Civics: Influential Documents

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the principle of the federal government that allows each branch to limit the power of the other branches?

a)

Checks and Balances

b)

Limited Government

c)

Tyranny

d)

Self-Government

2.

Which pamphlet published in 1776 aimed to convince American colonists to support becoming independent from England?

a)

Common Sense

b)

Mayflower Compact

c)

English Bill of Rights

d)

Magna Carta

3.

Which government document expanded the powers of the English Parliament and expanded the rights of the people, as well as further limited the rights of the king?

a)

Bill of Rights

b)

Magna Carta

c)

Mayflower Compact

d)

Common Sense

4.

What is the principle that the government has to provide a cause or reason for holding a person in jail?

a)

Habeas Corpus

b)

Limited Monarchy

c)

Consent of the Governed

d)

Common Law

5.

Which government document limited the power of the king of England and protected the rights of the nobility?

a)

Magna Carta

b)

English Bill of Rights

c)

Mayflower Compact

d)

Common Sense

6.

What agreement between individuals created a government that would provide order and protect the rights of the colonists?

a)

Mayflower Compact

b)

Common Sense

c)

English Bill of Rights

d)

Habeas Corpus

7.

What is the term for a popular or representative system where the people create and run their own government?

a)

Self-Government

b)

Limited Government

c)

Tyranny

d)

Common Law

8.

Which government document listed a variety of reasons why American colonists would be better off separated from British rule?

a)

Common Sense

b)

Mayflower Compact

c)

English Bill of Rights

d)

Magna Carta

9.

What was the agreement British rulers signed after the noble citizens demanded the monarchy give some of its rights to 'the people'?

a)

Mayflower Compact

b)

English Bill of Rights

c)

Magna Carta

d)

Common Sense

10.

What is common law?

a)

law based on customs and prior legal decisions; used in civil cases

b)

law based on limited government

c)

law based on rights of the property owner

d)

law based on sound ethics

11.

an agreement made by the people to establish a government and obey its laws

a)
constitution
b)

consent of the governed

c)
treaty
d)
agreement
12.

a government document that expanded the powers of the English Parliament and expanded the rights of the people, as well as further limited the rights of the king; written by the members of the English Parliament in 1689

a)
Bill of Rights
b)
Emancipation Proclamation
c)
Magna Carta
d)
Declaration of Independence
13.

the principle that the government has to provide a cause or reason for holding a person in jail

a)
plea bargain
b)
arraignment
c)
bail
d)
habeas corpus
14.

a system of government in which the king or queen shares authority with an elected legislature and agrees to be bound by a constitution or a set of laws, also known as a constitutional monarchy

a)
Absolute monarchy
b)

Constitutional or limited monarchy

c)
Dictatorship
d)
Anarchy
15.

a government document that limited the power of the king of England and protected the rights of the nobility; written by the English nobles in 1215

a)
Declaration of Independence
b)
Magna Carta
c)
Bill of Rights
d)
Articles of Confederation
16.

The _____________ was a list of rights the British citizens demanded the monarchy relinquish to "the people".

a)
Magna Carta
b)
Emancipation Proclamation
c)
Bill of Rights
d)
Declaration of Independence
17.

The American Bill of Rights was influenced by Britain's ______________.

a)
Magna Carta
b)

English Bill of Rights

c)
Parliament
d)
Constitution
18.

America's Declaration of Independence is similar to the British ______________, it the way that the people demand their own rights at risk to the supreme authority of the crowned ruler.

a)
Magna Carta
b)
Act of Settlement
c)
Bill of Rights
d)
Parliament Act
19.

The _____________ was created when British residents landed in the wrong area of the new world (America). They had to create rules by themselves for each of them to follow until they could make their way to the colony they intended to land on. Once they got to Jamestown, they agreed to follow the established rules there.

a)
Roanoke Compact
b)
Mayflower Compact
c)
Pilgrim Agreement
d)
Plymouth Rock