WorksheetsFounding Documents
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
What are your natural rights according to Enlightenment thinker, Locke?
Life, Liberty, Property
Freedom, Taxes, Happiness
Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness
Liberty, Insurance, Low Prices
This document was created to establish a weak federal government with powerful state governments
Northwest Ordinance
Articles of Confederation
Constitution of the United States
Declaration of Independence
This document was created to explain how the King of England violated the rights of the colonists and established a free United States
Constitution of the United States
Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
Declaration of Independence
This was required by the Anti-Federalists for ratification of the Constitution
Banning slavery
Federalist papers
Bill of Rights
Representation based on population
This document created the rules for admitting new states into the Union (country)
Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
Northwest Ordinance
Constitution of the United States
This document establishes 3 branches of government, checks & balances, and a system of fair representation
Articles of Confederation
Constitution of the United States
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights
This document in 1787, outlawed slavery in the territory that eventually becomes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin
Northwest Ordinance
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
Constitution of the United States
Which of the following was NOT a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
No power to collect taxes
No power to enforce laws
No power to coin money
No power to establish new states
What effect did the Enlightenment have on political though in the colonies?
Adoption of a state sponsored church
Questioning authority of the monarchy
Colonists shouldn't have to pay any taxes
Britain was too far away to run the colonies effectively
Anti-Federalists believed that the Constitution would...
Create a government like the British
Give the States too much power
Give the federal government too much power
Balance power well between the federal and state government
Which one of these is NOT a part of the Declaration of Independence?
List of Grievances
Preamble
Bill of Rights
56 Signatures
Rights that cannot be taken away are called...
unalienable
unbreakable
social contract
permanent
The protests from 1786-1787 by American farmers angered by unfair taxation are referred to as...
Boston Tea Party
Stamp Act
Shays' Rebellion
Farmers Revolt
Which amendment gives people the protection from unreasonable searches and seizures?
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Which amendments protects the people from excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishment?
6th
7th
8th
9th
Which amendment protects you from having to house troops?
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Which amendment grants the people to have any rights not explicitly written in the Constitution?
7th
8th
9th
10th
Which amendment gives you the freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly and petition?
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
