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Primavera U.S Government ACHECKPOINTS-EXAMS (2024)
What services did the Catholic Church provide to ease the burden of peasants serving
under feudalism?
Select all that apply. - answer- Health care
- Education
How did Pericles encourage Athenians to take responsibility in government? - answer
He advised them to write their own constitution.
Aristocracy - answer A government in which power is held by the most qualified
individuals who have no interest in monetary gain.
Oligarchy - answer A government consisting on a small group of people.
Timocracy - answer A government placed on principles of military glory; rulers include
military personnel.
Tyranny - answerA government established through one person coming to power in
order to maintain order but exercising power in an unjust matter.
Mobocracy - answerA government that replaced rulers who mistreated the masses and
became a system where the lower classes vote for how the government should be run.
Which statement best describes the role of the monarch under the British parliamentary
system? - answerThe power of the monarch is limited by the constitution.
How do Britain's proportional elections influence the government? - answerProportional
elections allow minority parties greater representation, but the larger number of
representatives may make it difficult for members of government to form coalitions.
What was the significance of the Law of the Twelve Tables? - answerThese laws were
easy to understand and made available to the citizens.
How did the Romans influence the creation of a representative government and written
law?
Select all that apply. - answer- writing down the law and making it available to the
public.
, - allowing elected leaders to speak for the citizens they represented.
Read the sentence.
Adam Smith believed that governments should not interfere in the economy. This
approach is known as _[blank]_ .
Which best completes the sentence? - answerlaissez faire.
Which statement is characteristic of a traditional economy? - answerMost people are
involved in agriculture.
What are some of the similarities between the Magna Carta and the United States
Constitution?
Select all that apply. - answer- Trial by jury of one's peers.
- Separation of church and state.
What led King John I to sign the Magna Carta? - answerHe wanted to maintain peace
with the nobles.
What is the upper house also referred to as? - answerSenate.
What governmental practices led to the writing of the English Bill of Rights?
Select all that apply. - answer- The Crown had tortured the accused to receive
confessions for crimes.
- James II created a standing army that killed hundreds of Protestants.
- James II had created laws restricting the right of Protestants to bear arms.
In which work did Rousseau state that surrendering individual rights for the good of all
would create equality for everyone? - answerThe Social Contract.
Why did the British Parliament create the English Bill of Rights? - answerto strengthen
the rights of citizens.
How did the Pilgrims influence the notion of representative democracy? -
answerGovernment officials were selected locally.
What did the Second Charter of Virginia provide to the colonists? - answerThe rights to
establish a representative government.
Why did Benjamin Franklin change Thomas Jefferson's original phase of "We hold
these truths to be sacred" to "We hold these truths to be self-evident"? - answerOnly
through reason could a new nation protect the rights of the people.
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