Review Topic 2 Test

The colonists built their governments based on customs and ideas borrowed from England and early civilizations, including unwritten, judge-made law developed over centuries. This type of law is known as

• constitutionalism
• common law
• Hammurabi's Code
• the rule of law

Which of the following is MOST directly related to the idea that government should be restricted in what it can do?

• representative government
• ordered government
• limited government
• colonial government

The Magna Carta established the idea that

• a monarch's power was not absolute.
• privileged classes were entitled to more rights.
• monarchs had the right to make arbitrary laws.
• a subject's right to trial by jury was not guaranteed.

Use this excerpt from the English Bill of Rights to answer the question. "...that the pretended power of suspending the laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, without consent of Parliament is illegal...that levying money for or to the use of the Crown... without grant of Parliament...is illegal...that it is the right of the subjects to petition the king... and that prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal..." —English Bill of Rights Which of the following ideas is embodied in this excerpt?

• The king needed the consent of Parliament to appoint advisors and ministers.
• The king had the right to prosecute illegal petitions protesting royal laws.
• The king had the power to suspend laws without Parliament's consent.
• The king needed the consent of Parliament in order to tax people.

Which of the following was another way the colonists protested against British policies?

• Declaration of Rights and Grievances
• First Continental Congress
• Albany Congress
• Boston Massacre

Which of the following was one compromise related to the Declaration of Independence that was agreed to by the delegates to the Second Continental Congress?

• Language condemning the slave trade was removed.
• Language criticizing the English people was strengthened.
• A list of grievances against the king was removed.
• A list of grievances against tax collectors was strengthened.

Why were the Articles of Confederation considered too weak?

Early on, the Constitutional Convention adopted the following proposal. “Resolved...that a national government ought to be established consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary.” What debate among the delegates to the Convention was solved by this resolution?

• whether the Articles of Confederation should be revised or replaced
• whether or not the new government should include an executive branch
• whether the government should be national or federal in form
• Option 5

What was the compromise’s other main feature?

• In the Senate, the States would be represented equally. In the House, the States would be represented based on size of territory.
• In the Senate, the States would be represented based on territory. In the House, the States would be represented equally.
• In the Senate, the States would be represented equally. In the House, the States would be represented based on population.
• In the Senate, the States would be represented based on population. In the House, the States would be represented based on the size of their economies.

In deciding the population of a State for purposes of representation, a disagreement arose as to whether enslaved persons should be counted. Study the map. Which statement is consistent with what the map shows?

• Northern States would likely benefit from counting enslaved persons as part of their populations.
• Georgia was most likely against including its enslaved persons in its total population count.
• Connecticut would be likely to benefit more than Virginia from counting enslaved persons in its population.
• North and South Carolina probably favored counting enslaved persons as part of their populations.