Unit 2 Foundations of Government Review

Which enlightenment thinker believed that a strong government, such as an absolute monarchy is needed to keep order?

• Thomas Hobbes

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

• John Locke

Both John Locke and Thomas Jefferson wrote about the natural rights of humans. In what document are these "unalienable rights" specifically mentioned?

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Preamble to the Constitution

• The English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

Choose the TWO most important audiences that the Declaration of Independence was intended to reach

• The Colonists

• Potential Foreign Allies

• The Media

• Potential Immigrants

All of the following are important documents that influenced British Government EXCEPT

• The English Bill of Rights

• The Petition of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Common Sense

Which statement below accurately summarizes the relationship of the British Colonist to the British Monarchy AFTER the French and Indian War

• The British provided economic freedom but little religious freedom

• The British paid little attention the colonist for all of the colonial period.

• The British began heavily taxing the colonist and regulating their lives.

• The British reduced taxes and regulations after the war.

The contract the Pilgrims made with each other to promise to work together was called the

• Mayflower Compact

• Plymouth Compromise

• Boston Charter

• Mayflower Constitution

8.15(D) Which government principle is illustrated in the diagram?

• Federalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Republicanism

• Separation of Powers

The idea that the power to rule comes from the people is known as

• right to rebel

• natural rights

• popular sovereignty

• Federalism 
• Checks and balances
• Popular sovereignty
• Individual rights

The US has a written constitution, this characteristic is one of a:

• Limited Government
• Unlimited Government