Government Test 1/26

Question 1

How long has America been independent?

Answer 1

239.5 years

Question 2

How was America founded?

Answer 2

On a Christian foundation, of the people by the people and for the people

Question 3

Facts about the flag

Answer 3

red represents courage, white purity, blue loyalty. Stripes are 13 original states (colonies), blue is the union and contains 50 white stars which are all states we now have

Question 4

Who wrote the pledge

Answer 4

Francis Bellamy, in God we trust added in 1956

Question 5

National anthem

Answer 5

Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key in War of 1812, adopted in 1931

Question 6

System of government in which God himself rules personally or through representatives

Answer 6

Theocracy

Question 7

Rule by one whose will is supreme

Answer 7

Autocracy

Question 8

People rule by popular vote o indirectly via elected representatives

Answer 8

Democracy

Question 9

System of government in which ruler has unlimited power, goes down family line

Answer 9

Absolute monarchy

Question 10

System of gov in which ruler’s power is limited by consititution and equal to a body of elected reps

Answer 10

Constitutional Monarchy

Question 11

System of government in which ruler acquires power

Answer 11

Dictatorship

Question 12

Ruler controls all aspects of society

Answer 12

Totalitarian

Question 13

System of government control over economy (not a form of government)

Answer 13

Socialism

Question 14

State or national socialism in which power is vested in dictator and/or his specific political party

Answer 14

Facism

Question 15

People rule directly by pop vote

Answer 15

Direct Democracy

Question 16

People rule indirectly through elected representatives

Answer 16

Democratic Republic

Question 17

People nd representatives are limited by constitutions

Answer 17

Constitutional Republic

Question 18

A totalitarian dictatorship by one or more persons that advocates the violent, revolutionary overthrowof the existing economy, political and social order and sets up a tyrannical state that dominates all things by force and terror

Answer 18

Communism

Question 19

Magna Carta

Answer 19

Part of England’s striving for liberty, included freedoms like no taxation without representation, trial by jury, habeas corpus, due process

Question 20

English and US Bill of Rights

Answer 20

Very similar, not as detailed

Question 21

Day of US Independence

Answer 21

July 4, 1776

Question 22

First and Second Continental Congress

Answer 22

1: pledged loyalty to crown but protests parliamentary interference with American rights
2: began to assume political power

Question 23

Types of charters

Answer 23

Proprietary: king grants land to a subject
Royal: King over
Self-Governing: ppl rule themselves (Rhode ISland and Connecticut)

Question 24

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Answer 24

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