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Founding Documents

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are your natural rights according to Enlightenment thinker, Locke?

a)

Life, Liberty, Property

b)

Freedom, Taxes, Happiness

c)

Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness

d)

Liberty, Insurance, Low Prices

2.

This document was created to establish a weak federal government with powerful state governments

a)

Northwest Ordinance

b)

Articles of Confederation

c)

Constitution of the United States

d)

Declaration of Independence

3.

This document was created to explain how the King of England violated the rights of the colonists and established a free United States

a)

Constitution of the United States

b)

Articles of Confederation

c)

Bill of Rights

d)

Declaration of Independence

4.

This was required by the Anti-Federalists for ratification of the Constitution

a)

Banning slavery

b)

Federalist papers

c)

Bill of Rights

d)

Representation based on population

5.

This document created the rules for admitting new states into the Union (country)

a)

Articles of Confederation

b)

Bill of Rights

c)

Northwest Ordinance

d)

Constitution of the United States

6.

This document establishes 3 branches of government, checks & balances, and a system of fair representation

a)

Articles of Confederation

b)

Constitution of the United States

c)

Declaration of Independence

d)

Bill of Rights

7.

This document in 1787, outlawed slavery in the territory that eventually becomes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin

a)

Northwest Ordinance

b)

Bill of Rights

c)

Articles of Confederation

d)

Constitution of the United States

8.

Which of the following was NOT a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

a)

No power to collect taxes

b)

No power to enforce laws

c)

No power to coin money

d)

No power to establish new states

9.

What effect did the Enlightenment have on political though in the colonies?

a)

Adoption of a state sponsored church

b)

Questioning authority of the monarchy

c)

Colonists shouldn't have to pay any taxes

d)

Britain was too far away to run the colonies effectively

10.

Anti-Federalists believed that the Constitution would...

a)

Create a government like the British

b)

Give the States too much power

c)

Give the federal government too much power

d)

Balance power well between the federal and state government

11.

Which one of these is NOT a part of the Declaration of Independence?

a)

List of Grievances

b)

Preamble

c)

Bill of Rights

d)

56 Signatures

12.

Rights that cannot be taken away are called...

a)

unalienable

b)

unbreakable

c)

social contract

d)

permanent

13.

The protests from 1786-1787 by American farmers angered by unfair taxation are referred to as...

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Shays' Rebellion

d)

Farmers Revolt

14.

Which amendment gives people the protection from unreasonable searches and seizures?

a)

1st

b)

2nd

c)

3rd

d)

4th

15.

Which amendments protects the people from excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishment?

a)

6th

b)

7th

c)

8th

d)

9th

16.

Which amendment protects you from having to house troops?

a)

1st

b)

2nd

c)

3rd

d)

4th

17.

Which amendment grants the people to have any rights not explicitly written in the Constitution?

a)

7th

b)

8th

c)

9th

d)

10th

18.

Which amendment gives you the freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly and petition?

a)

1st

b)

2nd

c)

3rd

d)

4th