2.04 Quiz American Government Part 3

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 not correct?

Answer: Hobbes argued that because the “general will” of the people was for freedom, the people as a whole should force individual citizens to conform to the general will.

Question: Which of the Enlightenment thinkers would agree with the idea that government powers should be divided into three branches?

Answer: Montesquieu

Question: What document includes the phrase “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”?

Answer: the Declaration of Independence

Question: What was the single most important influence on Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer: John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government

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 first?

Answer: George III was crowned.

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

Answer: separation of powers; state constitutions had several branches of government

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 last?

Answer: Shays’s supporters were elected to the Massachusetts legislature. The Massachusetts legislature repealed the taxes and stopped paying its debts.