Civics Chapter 2

Question 1

. What major influence of the new American government would limit the power of the monarch by guaranteeing that no body would be above the law?

Answer 1

Magna Carta

Question 2

What is the name of the theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys?

Answer 2

Mercantilism

Question 3

What type of government could the Mayflower Compact be best known as?

Answer 3

Direct Democracy

Question 4

Which policy forced the American colonies to sell raw materials to England for cheap prices and forced them to buy back at higher prices?

Answer 4

British Mercantilism

Question 5

What levied taxes on goods imported to the colonies?

Answer 5

Townshend Acts of 1767

Question 6

What event caused Parliament to pass the Intolerable Act?

Answer 6

The Boston Tea Party

Question 7

Who was responsible for writing the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 7

Delegates at the Second Continental Congress

Question 8

What was a large weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 8

It did not give National Government enough power

Question 9

What is the name of the pamphlet where Thomas Paine argues for complete independence from England?

Answer 9

Common Sense

Question 10

US’s first official government could be best described as what?

Answer 10

Confederation

Question 11

What was main complaint of early American colonists.

Answer 11

No taxation without representation

Question 12

Virginia House of Burgesses can be known as the first of what?

Answer 12

Representative assembly

Question 13

Thomas Jefferson was the main author of what?

Answer 13

Declaration of Independence

Question 14

What could not be amended without an agreement of all 13 states?

Answer 14

Articles of confederation

Question 15

What incident resulted in the realization of the failings of the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 15

Shay’s rebellion

Question 16

Boycotting British goods was a colonist protest in response to what?

Answer 16

Stamp Act of 1765

Question 17

State government ultimately head political power under what?

Answer 17

Articles of Confederation

Question 18

How many states would it require to pass a law under the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 18

9 states

Question 19

Common law often deals with what?

Answer 19

Property, contracts and personal injury

Question 20

When Parliament allowed the British East India Company to import tea with no taxes the colonists considered this a violation of what?

Answer 20

Equity law

Question 21

Constitutional law is known as America what?

Answer 21

Bedrock

Question 22

What is the name of the event where England parliament became more powerful than the king.

Answer 22

The Glorious revolution

Question 23

What was the purpose of the snake cartoon created by Benjamin franklin?

Answer 23

To unite the colonies