Chapter 2 Civics Review 1 Question Preview (ID: 36246)


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Like the English Parliament, the new state legislatures were
a) bicameral
b) wealthy
c) unbalanced
d) powerless

What was the legislative body that drew up the English Bill of Rights in 1689?
a) Parliament
b) the House of Burgesses
c) the First Continental Congress
d) the Second Continental Congress

When English judges were asked to try a case, they would look for a
a) common law
b) charter
c) precedent
d) compact

Which was the start of the 1st self-government?
a) Mayflower Compact
b) Boston Tea Party
c) House of Burgesses
d) First Continental Congress

Author of - Common Sense -
a) Thomas Jefferson
b) John Locke
c) Charles Thomson
d) Thomas Paine

Our inalienable rights are “Life, Liberty, and
a) independence from Tyranny
b) the pursuit of Happiness
c) freedom of Religion
d) the search for Prosperity

Which documents said Parliament had the right to tax and make decisions for the American colonies “in all cases.”
a) Declaratory Act
b) Tea Act
c) Magna Carta
d) Mayflower Compact

First constitution of the USA
a) Mayflower Compact
b) United States Constitution
c) Articles of Confederation
d) Declaration of Independence

The Coercive Acts are also known to the colonists as the
a) Tea Acts
b) Intolerable Acts
c) Townshend Acts
d) Declaratory Acts

Mayflower Compact was a ________ democracy.
a) representative
b) conderate
c) direct
d) charter

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