Exam 1: An Historical Overview

As a result of the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament restricted town meetings in American colonies to one a year and required British troops to be housed in private homes.

The Articles of Confederation established a Congress to conduct the necessary tasks of a central government.

In the Supremacy Clause, the______________________________ declared itself to be the supreme law of the land.

The_______________ was established vertically, through the separation of power between the federal government and the states, and laterally, through the three branches of government.

Those colonists who bought British goods against the boycott were branded:

How do you think the omission of slavery from the United States Constitution impacted the history of the United States?

The_______________  Amendment prohibits the government from housing soldiers in private homes in peacetime without the owners' consent.

Which of the following permits the U. S. Supreme Court to become the ultimate decision-maker in whether the laws and actions of government circumvent the Constitution and, if so, whether to invalidate them?

While the opening paragraph of the Declaration of Independence was issued to break political ties with Great Britain, the second paragraph declares that a government's right to rule is based on:

According to Article 1 of the Constitution, which branch of government is authorized to declare war?"

Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton are the only two Presidents of the United States to be:

The men who signed the Declaration of Independence were the elite of their colonies, men of wealth and social standing.

Formal ties between Great Britain and the United States were severed when:

Colonists who supported the boycott of British goods in the colonies were known as _________, because they vowed allegiance to America rather than to the British monarchy.

Explain the role of the Magna Carta in framing the U.S. Constitution.

The First Continental Congress met in Trenton, New Jersey, on December 19, 1771-one of the coldest winters on record.

The Constitution established the U.S. government as a(n) ____________, not a democracy.

The issue of ____________ was omitted during the Constitutional debates, because the framers knew the document would not be ratified by the Southern states if they dealt with the slavery issue.

Opponents of the death penalty most frequently cite the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment in the:

A union of independent states, in which each state maintains sovereignty, is known as: