Standard 2 Quiz Review

Citizens choose or vote on a smaller group to represent them, make laws, and govern on their behalf

• direct democracy
• representative democracy
• theocracy
• oligarchy

What 3 levels of government exist in the United States?

• National, state, local
• Federal, National, state
• local, municipal, community
• kingdom, country, town

English political thinker who believed that human beings naturally compete for territory, resources, and power. He believed government was necessary for a quality life.

• JEAN JACQUES-ROUSSEAU
• BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
• THOMAS HOBBES
• THOMAS PAINE

What is majority rule?

• decisions based on what most people want
• decisions made on what the smallest group of people want
• laws affecting only certain people
• laws that we do not have to follow

What British legislation (law) pushed colonists to hold the First Continental Congress?

• Stamp Act
• Magna Carta
• Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
• Declaration of Independence

What was the first written constitution of the United States?

• Constitution of the United States
• Mayflower Compact
• Articles of Confederation
• English Bill of Rights

The Articles of Confederation set up a one house legislature where each state had one vote

• True
• False

Daniel Shays led a rebellion called "Shays' Rebellion" because farmers like himself were going into debt because of high state taxes.

• True
• False

Shays' Rebellion proved that the Articles of Confederation worked and the United States did not need a stronger government

• True
• False