Unit 1 Exam:

Foundation of American Rights and Freedoms

Directions: Complete the following tasks in your notebook. You DO NOT need to write the question, just be sure to write the number and section.

Multiple Choice- answer the following questions

Standard 11.1.1

1. What did Enlightenment philosopher Baron de Montesquieu believe in? How did his ideas influence the Founding Fathers?

2. According to Locke, when do people have the right to rebel against or abolish their government?

3. Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

4. What effect did the Enlightenment have on political thought in the colonies?

5. According to John Locke when do people receive natural rights?

6. Whom do they get these rights from?

7. According to the Declaration of Independence, where does a government obtain its power from?

Standard 11.1.2

8. What promise caused the Constitution to be ratified?

9. Why did the Antifederalists oppose the Constitution?

10. What are the unalienable right listed in the Declaration of Independence?

11. What does the term unalienable rights mean?

12. Why did colonists opposed the Stamp Act?

13. How did colonists react to the Tea Act?

14. What was the Declaration of Independence?

15. What was the first constitution of the United States?

16. What were the effects of Shays’ Rebellion?

17. What were the arguments raised by those who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in 1787?

18. What important issues did the Great Compromise settle?

Standard 11.1.3

19. Why did the Founding Fathers create the system of checks and balances?

How does the Constitution limit the power of the federal government?

20. List some of the civil liberties included in the Bill of Rights.

21. According to the Constitution, who has the power to declare war?

22. What did the Anti- federalists believe?

23. What was the purpose of the Preamble of the Constitution?

Standard 11.1.4

24. What was the main goal of the Abolitionists?

25. What was the intent (purpose) of the Union war strategy known as the Anaconda Plan?

26. What is total war ? Why did Sherman employ this strategy?

27. What was the immediate effect of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863?

28. What was significant about the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863?

29. As a result of producing too many goods, what did the United States do?

30. What were the effects of the Civil War?

31. What were the provisions of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

32. What were the economic and geographic differences between the North and the South prior to the Civil War?

33. What did the Kansas- Nebraska Act give the people of those territories the right to decide? Through what means?

34. What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?

35. What did sharecropping and tenant farming have in common during Reconstruction?

36. What are Jim Crowe Laws?

37. Why was the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson important?

Short Answer: summarize the following in a 4-6 sentence paragraph

1. The Great Compromise

Fill in the Blank: define the following vocabulary

1.  ratification

2.  bicameral Legislature

3.  supremacy clause

4.  Bill of Rights

5.  13th

6.  14th

7.  15th Amendment

8.  segregation

9.  Plessy vs. Ferguson

10.  Jim Crow Laws

11.  amendment

12.  Emancipation Proclamation