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American Government Review 2

Branches

Question: How many branches are there under the Articles of Confederation?
Answer: One

Question: How many branches are there under the US Constitution?
Answer: Three

Question: What is the job of the executive branch?
Answer: To implement or put into action the laws passed by Congress

Question: Which branch is responsible for making laws?
Answer: Legislative

Question: Which branch decides if a law is unconstitutional?
Answer: Judicial

Historical Figures

Question: The people who helped lead the colonies to independence from Britain are called?
Answer: Founders

Question: This man said that when people live in a state of nature most likely it would be very chaotic as people would be fighting to protect their individual rights.
Answer: John Locke

Question: The author of the Declaration of Independence was
Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Question: This group of revolutionaries organized protests throughout the colonies against the unjust taxes from Britain.
Answer: Sons of Liberty

Question: Signed the Emancipation Proclamation and ended the Civil War
Answer: Lincoln

Forms of Government

Question: What is anarchy?
Answer: When there is no government.

Question: A form of government where the political leader is chosen based on birth.
Answer: Monarchy

Question: This form of government is when the political power is from the people/citizens
Answer: Democracy

Question: A direct democracy
Answer: is a form of government where the people vote on all the laws themselves.

Question: A form of government where the citizens elect representatives to work on their behalf is a
Answer: republic or representative democracy

Philosophy

Question: These are our natural rights
Answer: Life, Liberty and pursuit of happiness

Question: All citizens/people are born with these as they are given to us by God
Answer: natural rights

Question: An agreement to give up some of our freedom in exchange for protecting our natural rights is
Answer: social contract

Question: Citizens who put the common good above their own selfish interests demonstrate
Answer: civic virtue

Question: The belief that citizens should be represented in the government before taxes are created for them is also known as
Answer: Taxation without Representation

American Government

Question: A constitutional government usually has
Answer: a written constitution

Question: The system of dividing up the powers so no one group has all the power is known as
Answer: Separation of Powers

Question: The date Americans celebrate as their independence.
Answer: July 4, 1776

Question: This document was the formal explanation of the colonies desire to split from Britain.
Answer: Declaration of Independence

Question: According to Thomas Jefferson, governments are designed to
Answer: protect our natural rights