CIVICS 2.1-2.3

Question 0

A group of people chosen to make the laws

Answer 0

Legislature

Question 1

The traditions passed down to us from generation to generation

Answer 1

Heritage

Question 2

A document giving permission to create a government

Answer 2

Charter

Question 3

The abuse of power

Answer 3

Tyranny

Question 4

A form of government in which all laws are made directly by the citizens

Answer 4

Direct democracy

Question 5

A government in which representatives were elected

Answer 5

Republic

Question 6

Rights people are born with and no government can take away

Answer 6

Natural rights

Question 7

Dividing government power among legislative executive and judicial

Answer 7

Separation of powers

Question 8

A written agreement to make and obey the laws for the welfare of the group

Answer 8

Compact

Question 9

Approval

Answer 9

Ratification

Question 10

The colonists of Virginia elected representatives called

Answer 10

Burgesses

Question 11

What is Latin for Great charter

Answer 11

Magna Carta

Question 12

When did parliament pass the bill of rights

Answer 12

1689

Question 13

Who was allowed to vote and hold office in the 1600’s and 1700’s

Answer 13

White men with a certain amount of land where allowed to vote

Question 14

The Africans were legally considered what

Answer 14

Property

Question 15

What was closely tied to government

Answer 15

Religion

Question 16

Who was one of the first people to inspire the other colonists to fight for freedom of the press

Answer 16

John Peter Zenger

Question 17

Who created the first direct democracy

Answer 17

The Greeks

Question 18

Who was the first to make a republic

Answer 18

The Romans

Question 19

Who made king john sign the Magna Carta

Answer 19

The English nobles

Question 20

The rights in the Magna Carta applied only to the .

Answer 20

Nobles

Question 21

The English bill of rights listed the rights of who

Answer 21

All English citizens

Question 22

Who wrote that the government exists to serve the people rather than the other way around

Answer 22

John Locke

Question 23

Natural rights have three meanings

Answer 23

1. Life 2. Liberty 3. Property

Question 24

Who proposed the separation of powers

Answer 24

Montesquieu

Question 25

Who permitted the colonies to trade only with England

Answer 25

Parliament

Question 26

Who wanted the freedom to sell their products to any country

Answer 26

Colonists

Question 27

Parliament decided to pay off war debts by doing what

Answer 27

Enforcing more taxes on the colonies

Question 28

Name and explain three British acts

Answer 28

The stamp act of 1765 - a tax on all paper used for all official documents The declaratory act: England had the right to make all decisions for the colonies in all cases and also to pay tax The Townshend acts: A tax on goods imported into the colonies.

Question 29

When was the Boston massacre and who was the first african american martyr of the american revolution

Answer 29

Year 1770 and Crispus addicks

Question 30

When and what was the Boston tea party

Answer 30

december 16 1773 - when men dressed as mohawk Indians led by the sons of liberty boarded three ships of the british East Indian tea company.

Question 31

When (year) was the first continental congress

Answer 31

1774

Question 32

what were the first wars of the revolutionary war

Answer 32

The battle of lexington and concord

Question 33

Who were the three main people of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 33

Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson John Adams

Question 34

The five parts of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 34

1.Introduction 2. Contemporary American philosophy 3.Indictment against King GeorgeIII 4. Acceptance of Richard Henry lee's Resolution of Independence 5. signatures

Question 35

When and where do the British surrender

Answer 35

Yorktown in 1781

Question 36

What was the plan of the government that each state had.

Answer 36

the constitution

Question 37

Name six weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

Answer 37

No power to tax/No power to regulate commerce/No executive branch/No judicial branch/The passage of law required 9 out of 13 states/the passage of an amendment must be UNANIMOUS

Question 38

When and What was Shays rebellion

Answer 38

The fall of 1786 Former army captain and farmer, Daniel Shay led a rebellion in Massachusetts.

Question 39

what Shay upset about

Answer 39

the stance on debt collection