2.03 Quiz American Government

Question: What set of ideas did the most to shape the American system of government?

Answer: Enlightened reason

Question: Which statement about Thomas Hobbes and John Locke is incorrect?

Answer: John Locke argued that, just as it is impossible for a large planet to orbit around a small moon, so too was it impossible for the large American colonies to forever remain in the orbit of the small nation of Great Britain.

Question: Which of the Enlightenment thinkers would agree with the idea that people are naturally good, but bad governments can corrupt them?

Answer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Question: What document includes the phrase “…to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”?

Answer: The Declaration of Independence.

Question: What was the relationship between John Locke and Thomas Jefferson?

Answer: Thomas Jefferson paraphrased John Locke in the Declaration of Independence.

Question: Which organization was created after the fighting broke out at Lexington and Concord, managing the early period of the American Revolution and then issuing the Declaration of Independence?

Answer: Second Continental Congress.

Question: What event from the American Revolution period occurred last?

Answer: The Declaration of Independence was written.

Question: What example shows the influence of Enlightenment ideas on state constitutions?

Answer: natural rights: most state constitutions had a bill of rights.

Question: Which statement about the interactions of the states under the Articles of Confederation is not true?

Answer: Large states dominated the actions of the national government.

Question: What event surrounding Shays’s Rebellion occurred first?

Answer: Massachusetts taxed land to pay its Revolutionary War debts.