2.04 Lesson Assessment: American Government

This organization was created after the fighting broke out at Lexington and Concord. It managed the early period of the American Revolution and then issued the Declaration of Independence. answer choices: 1.Second Continental Congress 2.Continental Congress 3.Committees of Correspondence 4.shadow governments

answer : 1. Second Continental Congress

Which of the following did not make the national government weak under the Articles of Confederation? answer choices: 1. the inability to regulate trade 2 .the limit on passing a law unless 9 of the 13 states agreed 3. arrangements for the admission of new states 4. allowing each state one vote in Congress

answer : 3. arrangements for the admission of new states

Which of the Enlightenment thinkers would agree with the idea that people have natural rights that the government should protect? answer choices: 1.John Locke 2.Descartes 3.Montesquieu 4. Emmerich de Vattel

answer: 1. john locke

What did the Declaration of Independence have in common with most state constitutions? answer choices : 1. It included the Magna Carta's famous line about the rights of Englishmen. 2.It quoted the ideas of John Locke. 3.It referred to the Greek tradition of direct democracy and included a few lines in Greek. 4.It claimed to be creating a better, all-powerful government, just as Hobbes recommended in his Leviathan.

answer: 2. It quoted the ideas of John Locke.

Which is a good example of the influence of Enlightenment ideas on state constitutions? answer choices: 1. religious freedom; state constitutions all dismantled the state churches that had existed during the colonial era 2. separation of powers; state constitutions had several branches of government 3.popular sovereignty; the states all copied New Jersey's constitution and gave women the right to vote 4. judicial review; the state constitutions all created special boards of censors to review and reject bad laws

answer: 2. separation of powers; state constitutions had several branches of government

What document includes the phrase "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal ..."? answer choices: 1.the English Bill of Rights 2. the Declaration of Independence 3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract 4.Aristotle's Politics

answer: 2. the Declaration of Independence

What event surrounding Shays's Rebellion occurred first? answer choices: 1. Congress agreed to call a meeting "for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation." 2. Shays's supporters were elected to the Massachusetts legislature. The Massachusetts legislature repealed the taxes and stopped paying its debts. 3. the American Revolution left states deeply in debt 4. The national government was unable to raise forces to put down Shays's Rebellion.

answer: 3. the American Revolution left states deeply in debt

what was the most important influence on the american founders ? answer choices: 1. ancient Egypt hierarchies 2. Native American federations 3. African dual governance 4. European Enlightenment

answer: 4. European Enlightenment

Which statement about Thomas Hobbes and John Locke is not correct? answer choices: 1 .Both Thomas Hobbes and John Locke wrote about contract theories of government. 2.Thomas Hobbes defended powerful government and John Locke thought the power of government should be limited. 3. Both Thomas Hobbes and John Locke imagined what life was like in a state of nature. Correct Response //// 4. Hobbes argued that because the "general will" of the people was for freedom, the people as a whole should force individual citizens to conform to the general will.

answer: 4. Hobbes argued that because the "general will" of the people was for freedom, the people as a whole should force individual citizens to conform to the general will.

What event from the American Revolution period occurred first? answer choices: 1.The Declaration of Independence was written. 2.The Boston Massacre occurred. 3.The Intolerable Acts were passed. 4.The Sugar and Stamp Acts were passed.

answer: 4. The Sugar and Stamp Acts were passed.