Chapter 4 Quiz

Question 1

The mother country mainly influenced…

Answer 1

local government, legislative government, and limited government.

Question 2

terms such as grand jury, sheriff, bailiff, township, and county, all of which are rooted in…

Answer 2

English governance

Question 3

What and when was the first representative assembly in the New World

Answer 3

House Brugesses in 1619

Question 4

George III acceded the throne in 1760. (T/F)

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Stamp Act

Answer 5

1765; taxes and trade restrictions on the colonies that produced more resentment than revenue from America; violated the Petition of Right

Question 6

Petition of Rights

Answer 6

a document guaranteeing basic civil liberties to all British subjects

Question 7

an act of protest in which business is withheld or refused

Answer 7

boycott

Question 8

The First Continental Congress (1774) gathered in Philadelphia in September with representatives from every colony except Georgia. (T/F)

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Second Continental Congress (1775-89)

Answer 9

hots fired on Lexington Green had shattered the uneasy calm—the demand for complete independence was inevitable

Question 10

The basis for Declaration of Independence…

Answer 10

These United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states.

Question 11

First to sign the Declaration?

Answer 11

John Hancock

Question 12

The document resembled that of the Renaissance. (T/F)

Answer 12

False; Age of Enlightenment

Question 13

What influenced the Founding Father’s thought process

Answer 13

social contract

Question 14

What influenced the Founding Father’s thought process

Answer 14

social contract

Question 15

Regards God as something of a heavenly clockmaker who started the world in motion, established natural law, and then had little else to do with the affairs of humans.

Answer 15

Deism

Question 16

The Second Continental Congress set about to establish a central government based on the consent of the newly formed state governments: the result was…

Answer 16

Articles of Confederation

Question 17

When were the articles sent to the colonies for approval?

Answer 17

1777

Question 18

The ratification of the articles did not require unanimous consent. (T/F)

Answer 18

false

Question 19

Under the Articles, the national government consisted of a __________, or one-house, legislature without a national executive or judiciary.

Answer 19

unicameral

Question 20

George Washington’s home…

Answer 20

Mount Vernon

Question 21

The Annapolis Convention in 1786 was poorly attended. (T/F)

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Who led a small army of farmers to prevent farm foreclosures and debtor’s prison?

Answer 22

Daneil Shays

Question 23

What two events in 1760 brought about changes in British colonial rule that would eventually lead to American independence?

Answer 23

The French and Indian War ended, leaving Britain with a huge debt; George III acceded to the throne.

Question 24

What two significant factors during the War for Independence profoundly molded the nature of the United States government following the war?

Answer 24

a weak legislative central government and strongly independent state governments

Question 25

When did the constitutional convention begin?

Answer 25

1787

Question 26

Who headed the Convention

Answer 26

George Washington

Question 27

Father of the Constitution?

Answer 27

James Madison

Question 28

What is the Virginia plan and who proposed it?

Answer 28

introduced a bicameral congress, in which the number of representatives was based on state population or tax revenue; James Madison

Question 29

The states wanted the New Jersey Plan, which was...

Answer 29

a unicameral congress, maintaining the one-state, one-vote principles of the Confederation; presented by William Paterson

Question 30

The Connecticut Compromise/ Great Compromise

Answer 30

proposed that representation in the lower house be based on state population and that representation in the Senate be equal for all states regardless of size

Question 31

Three-Fifths Compromise.

Answer 31

three-fifths of a state’s slaves would count toward its representation in the House, but a slave state would also have to pay taxes on the slaves at the same rate

Question 32

The South was especially concerned that the new Congress might halt the slave trade and try to raise revenue through export duties that would hurt the Southern economy, which depended on the export of raw goods, such as cotton, timber, and indigo. (T/F)

Answer 32

True

Question 33

Electoral College

Answer 33

which gave direct power to neither the people nor Congress but to intermediate electors

Question 34

The president was given complete power to make treaties. (T/F)

Answer 34

false, the president could make them and they had to be approved by the Senate

Question 35

On September __, _____, after four months of exhausting work, the delegates gathered to sign the official engrossed copy of the Constitution.

Answer 35

17, 1787

Question 36

What two key procedural rules, established at the beginning of the Constitutional Convention, greatly facilitated the convention’s progress?

Answer 36

a rule of secrecy outside the convention hall; organization of the convention as a committee of the whole

Question 37

2. What major agreement did the Constitutional Convention reach after only five days of meetings?

Answer 37

new national government—restructured and redefined—with a supreme legislature, judiciary, and executive.

Question 38

What questions should a Christian legislator ask himself when asked to compromise?

Answer 38

Is this moral?

Question 39

the world’s first constitutional democracy was instituted during the spring of...

Answer 39

1789

Question 40

Who were the main leaders of the Anti-Federalists? Who were the main leaders of the Federalists?

Answer 40

Anti-Federalists: George Clinton, Patrick Henry, Edmund Randolph, and George Mason; Federalists: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay

Question 41

local government

Answer 41

organized government that provides order and leadership in local communities, such as counties, municipalities, towns, and cities

Question 42

legislative government

Answer 42

government by elected, representative assembly

Question 43

limited government

Answer 43

a constitutional principle that limits government to only those powers granted by law

Question 44

boycott

Answer 44

an act of protest in which individuals withhold their business or support