CIVICS UNIT ONE TEST
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Term
Definition
a. The right or privilege of voting.
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Quorum
Impeachment
Suffrage
Ex post Facto
Habeas Corpus
Confederation
Civil Discourse
Shay’s Rebellion
b. This term means that you cannot be held
against your will without just cause, or jailed if
there are no charges against you.
c. The number of members required to be
present for business to be legally conducted.
d. Reasoned discussion as opposed to emotional
display.
e. A form of political organization in which the
sovereign states combine for certain specified
purposes such as mutual defense.
f. A proceeding by the legislature for the removal
from office of a public official charged with
misconduct in office.
g. An armed revolt by Massachusetts farmers
seeking relief from debt and mortgage
foreclosures.
h. A Latin term meaning formulated, enacted, or
operating retroactively.
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Multiple Choice
• Who WAS NOT a part of Bacon’s militia during
the rebellion?
• a. Indentured Servants
b. Nobility
• c. Trappers
d. Slaves
Multiple Choice
• This act passed by British Parliament banned
colonists from settling West of the Appalachian
Mountains, which was meant to make Native
American allies of the British happy, and repay
them for their help in the French and Indian Wars
(Seven Years War)
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a. Stamp Act
b. Sugar Act
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c. Proclamation Act
d. Land Act
Multiple Choice
• This philosopher and Founding Father
endorsed the idea of the U. S. being a
representative republic.
a. Thomas Jefferson b. James Madison
c. John Adams d. Alexander Hamilton
Multiple choice
• Baron de Montesquieu developed the idea of:
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d.
Natural rights
Three branches of government
Representative republic
President must be 35 to take office
Multiple Choice
• While writing the Declaration of Independence,
Thomas Jefferson declared we have three natural
rights. What are these rights?
a. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of a good time
b. Liberty, freedom, and the right to bring
grievances before the President
c. Property, life, and liberty
d. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Multiple Choice
• The Declaration of Independence was written
to this person:
a. George Washington
b. King George III
c. Thomas Jefferson
d. King Louis XVI
Multiple Choice
• This Article of the Constitution discusses the
rights and requirements of the Executive branch
of the government.
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a. Article I
b. Article II
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c. Article III
c. Article IV
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Tips for multiple choice
• Preview the test: Maybe the answer to the question is
somewhere else in the test.
• Cover the stem of the question and try to answer
without the options.
• Read the stem with each of the options. Which is the
“most true?”
• Eliminate the options that you know are incorrect.
• Question options totally unfamiliar to you.
• Question options that contain negative or absolute
words (never, always, etc.)
Tips for essay questions
• Make sure you are answering all parts of the
essay question.
• If you don’t know an exact date make a
generalization like, “At the turn of the 20th
century,” or “in the early 1900s,” for example.
• If the question is open-ended, discuss the part
of the question you know the best.