SOL Review Game 2

What document establishes the current structure of the United States government?

• Virginia Constitution

• United States Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

What document establishes the idea that all people are equal under the law?

• Virginia Constitution

• United States Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

What document stated the rights of Englishmen were guaranteed to the colonists?

• Magna Carta

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

What document granted freedom of religious beliefs and opinions and became the model for one of the freedoms in the 1st amendment to the US?

• Articles of Confederation

• United States Constitution

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

What document served as a model for the 1st ten amendments of the US Constitution?

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

What document established the first form of national government for the independent states?

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London

• Articles of Confederation

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• United States Constitution

What document guarantees equality under the law with majority rule and the rights of the minority protected?

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• United States Constitution

What document stated grievances against the king of Great Britain and declared the colonies independence from Great Britain?

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• United States Constitution

What document "affirmed certain unalienable rights" (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness).

• Declaration of Independence

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• United States Constitution

We, the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union... - Constitution of the United States, 1787

The excerpt above refers to the...

• failed policies made by foreign officials

• grievances in the Declaration of Independence

• national problems causes by outdated laws

• weaknesses within the Articles of Confederation