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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER 2
GOVERNMENT EXAM QUESTIONS
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-Guarantee passing score -108 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: The farmers decided to count a slave as 3/5th's of a person when determining the population of a state.
Answer:
Three-Fifths Compromise
Question 2: Was James Madison a Federalist or Anti-Federalist?
Answer:
Federalist Question 3: Self-government in the early days of the colonies was made possible by the great distance between North America and England.
Answer:
True
Question 4: Committees of Correspondence
Answer:
1772
Question 5: Which of the following limitations on the English King's power was NOT included in the Petition of Right of 1628?
Answer:
The king could not allow his child to follow him to the throne Question 6: On what two States did the success or failure of ratification depend?
Answer:
Virginia and New York
Question 7: How did the Magna Carta affect English government?
Answer:
Limited government fundamental rights of citizens, ect Question 8: The Intolerable Acts prompted colonists to call the First Continental Congress.
Answer:
True
Question 9: Document written in 1215 limiting the power of the English monarchy
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Magna Carta Question 10: Colonies immediately accepted Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan of the Union.
Answer:
False
Question 11: How were charter colonies governed?
Answer:
Governed by the colonists themselves through electory governors, advised by councils
Question 12: Need orderly regulation of relationships
Answer:
Ordered Government
Question 13: The votes in Virginia and New York brought the number of ratifying states to nine, the number that the constitution required for it to go into effect
Answer:
False
Question 14: A quorum is a majority
Answer:
True
Question 15: How ere royal colonies governed?
Answer:
Controlled by crown, run by appt. governors,advised
Question 16: The colonies were settled for all the following EXCEPT?
Answer:
To provide a homeland for Native Americans.
Question 17: New England Confederation
Answer:
1643
Question 18: Lexington Concord
Answer:
1775, April 19
Question 19: Type of state that benefited from the Connecticut Compromise?
Answer:
Big States
Question 20: Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware were?
Answer:
Proprietary Colonies
Question 21: Was Alexander Hamilton a Federalist or Anti- Federalist?
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Federalist Question 22: Three branches of governmental, bicameral legislature, "National Executive" and "National Judiciary"
Answer:
Virginia Plan
Question 23: Articles of Confederation
Answer:
1781, March 1
Question 24: The Articles set up three branches of government
Answer:
False
Question 25: Intolerable Acts
Answer:
1774, Spring
Question 26: Type of state that benefited from the Virginia Plan?
Answer:
Big States
Question 27: Written grant of authority from the king to establish a colony
Answer:
Charter
Question 28: Representatives from each of the 13 colonies
Answer:
Delegates