Come find your Edusoft bubble sheet
on the front table. Pick up a test
packet as well.
For each section (Books Timeline, Fill
in the Blank, etc.), write how many
points each question is worth.
1st
2nd
a. Civics in Practice
b. Common Sense
c. English Bill of Rights
3rd
d. Magna Carta
4th
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
a. American Revolution
ends
b. Enlightment begins
c. George Washington
becomes President
d. Puritans come to
America
1. Mr. Deutsch wrote the wrong student’s name on a referral for
Saturday School. When he was called to the office, he was not given
Saturday School because of Montesquieu’s ideas on __________.
(a) inspiration
(b) self-government
(c) separation of powers
(d) social contract
2. Signed by King John in 1215, the __________ guaranteed that free
people could not be arrested, imprisoned, or exiled without a trial by
jury.
(a) Common Sense
(b) English Bill of Rights
(c) Magna Carta
(d) Mayflower Compact
3. The __________ prevented taxation without representation and cruel
punishments while protecting the freedom of speech and right to
bear arms in 1689.
(a) Common Sense
(b) English Bill of Rights
(c) Magna Carta
(d) Mayflower Compact
4. After the Puritans landed far away from where they were supposed to
land, they wrote and signed the __________ to give themselves the
rights to self-government.
(a) Common Sense
(b) English Bill of Rights
(c) Magna Carta
(d) Mayflower Compact
5. __________ was as popular as The Hunger Games and used every day
language instead of fancy talk to convince the people of the
American colonies that splitting up with England was the only way
the fighting with Britain would end.
(a) Common Sense
(b) English Bill of Rights
(c) Magna Carta
(d) Mayflower Compact
6. Most of the grievances of the Declaration of Independence seemed
to be an issue of __________.
(a) liberty
(b) life
(c) property
(d) pursuit of happiness
7. “We hold these truths to be self-__________, that all men are created
__________...
(a) equal, evident
(b) evident, equal
(c) consent, controlled
(d) controlled, consenting
8. To help pay for their soldiers, England passed the __________ Act,
which forced the colonists to put expensive tax stamps on all legal
documents, as well as newspapers, calendars, and almanacs.
(a) Declaratory
(b) Stamp
(c) Townshend Revenue
(d) Quartering
9. After the Boston Tea Party, England wanted to place more
restrictions on the colonies, so they passed the Coercive Acts. These
laws tried to force the Massachusetts to follow British rule. Colonists
called these acts the __________ Acts.
(a) Absurd
(b) Evil
(c) Intolerable
(d) Overkill
10. American colonists organized a __________ in response to the
Stamp Act. They stopped buying British goods as a form of protest.
After one year, Britain was forced to repeal the Stamp Act.
(a) boycott
(b) protest
(c) riot
(d) quorum
1. B
2. G
3. A
4. F
5. D
6. H
7. C
8. E
despotism
liberty
property
monarchy
unalienable
life
republic
natural
a. John Locke said that our rights include life,
liberty, and ________.
b. One person rules because he or she is the
strongest.
c. People choose the leaders
d. Rights that can NEVER be taken away
e. Rights that you have just for being born
f. Rule by someone who says a god told him or
her to be in charge
g. The right to be free to say what you want
and worship as you wish
h. The right to live without fear of being killed
or hurt by others
1. F The men who wrote our constitution are known today
2.
T
3. F
4. F
5.
6.
T
F
as our Rebellious Fathers.
The English Bill of Rights has a guarantee that
prevents cruel punishments, just like our 8th
amendment in the American Bill of Rights.
Common Sense was written in fancy language so that
everyone could understand it.
The main idea of the Magna Carta is that the King is
above the law.
The Mayflower Compact was an example of selfgovernment in the colonies, meaning that the Puritans
could make their own laws and select their own
leaders.
Our textbook this year is called “CIVICS”.
a. A leader who ruled his domain because he
said a god said he was in charge
1. B George Washington b. A leader who ruled his domain because he
2. G Jean Jacques
Rousseau
3. D John Locke
4. F Montesquieu
5. A King George III
6. H Thomas Jefferson
7. C Mr. Deutsch
8. E Thomas Paine
was elected President
c. A leader who rules his domain because he
says he is in charge
d. Wrote about the idea of natural rights: Life,
liberty, and property
e. Wrote Common Sense, which told people to
break away from England
f. Wrote that a separation of powers
guarantees freedom and liberty
g. Wrote the book Social Contract, which told
people that they make an unspoken
agreement to be ruled
h. Wrote the Declaration of Independence,
which announced that America’s break up
with England
Add up your points, divide by 124, and
multiply by 100. This is your test grade.
Bring the green test packet to the front bin.
Prepare a new paper for Cornell notes. Head your
paper and title it “Directions for Democracy”.
Please take notes on what I am about to read to
you.
On the back of that paper, you will need to copy
down the Preamble of the Constitution.
I will read and reread the Preamble.
When you are done writing, read the Preamble out
loud until everyone is reciting it.
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9.
We the People of the United States,
in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,
provide for the common defense,
promote the general Welfare,
and secure the Blessings of Liberty
to ourselves and our Posterity,
do ordain and establish
this Constitution for the United States of America.
We the People of the United States, in Order to
form a more perfect Union,
not the king, because this is a democracy
better than before
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,
create a fair legal system
keep things peaceful at home
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,
create a fair legal system
keep things peaceful at home
provide for the common defense, promote the
general Welfare,
join together to defend against attacks
help keep the people safe and healthy
provide for the common defense, promote the
general Welfare,
join together to defend against attacks
help keep the people safe and healthy
and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves
and our Posterity,
make sure that freedom and liberty is around today
for our descendants
and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and
our Posterity,
make sure that freedom and liberty is around today
for our descendants
do ordain and establish this Constitution for the
United States of America.
The people have created and agreed to follow this new
plan of government, the Constitution.