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Chapter 1 and 2
Questions from Ch 1 and 2 Test
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History
12th Grade
04/26/2014

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Today, the US federal income tax takes an average of what percent of taxpayers' income?

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21%

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Formal authority refers to a right to exercise power that is derived from a(n)

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governmental office

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The primary source of legitimate political authority in the United States is the 

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U.S. Constitution

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Which delegate to the Constitutional Convention was worried that the new government that he helped create might be too democratic?

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Alexander Hamilton

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Who was not an important source of theories explaining political elites?

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Sigmund Freud

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Marxists claim that, in modern society, the two major classes for power are the 

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capitalists and workers

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In Marxist ideology, the term bourgeoisie refers to 

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capitalists

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Max Weber and the pluralists would be  most likely to agree that

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No extra-governmental elite controls politics

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Who conceptualized the widest distribution of political power- or placed it in the largest number of hands?

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Max Weber

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Who conceptualized the narrowest distribution of political power- or placed it in the smallest number of hands? 

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Karl Marx

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Equality was the goal of the 

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French Revolution

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The principal goal of the American Revolution was

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liberty

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One of the basic liberties sought by the colonists through independence from Great Britain was

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Freedom from taxation without representation

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The liberties that the colonists fought to protect were based on

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Natural Rights

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What most accurately summarizes the aftermath of the American Revolution?

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Many cities were in ruin and the British were still a powerful presence

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Under the Articles of Confederation, delegates to the national legislature were

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chosen by the state legislatures

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Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government could

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run the Post Office

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Shays' Rebellion, an early test of the powers of the Articles of Confederation, took place in

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Massachusetts

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The Massachusetts constitution

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  • created a separation of powers 
  • established property qualifications
  • provided for an independent judiciary
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Among those who were conspicuously absent from the Constitutional Convention were

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Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry

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Madison dramatized his perspective in a Federalist paper by observing that "if men were _____, no government would be necessary."

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Angels

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Under the Virginia Plan, acts of the national legislature could have been revised by

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No one-- they would have been supreme

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The Virginia Plan would have granted the national legislature the power to veto state laws...

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any time it chose

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According to the Virginia Plan, proposed at the Constitutional Convention, all state laws should be...

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subject to veto by a national legislature

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Each state would have an equal number of votes in the

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New Jersey Plan

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The intent of the New Jersey Plan was to _______ the old Articles of Confederation

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amend

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The New Jersey Plan would have allotted votes in Congress to states on the basis of

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equality

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One indication of the degree of contention at the Convention might be found in Benjamin Franklin's suggestion that each day's meeting begin with

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prayer

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A majority of the thirteen states eligible to vote for the compromise plan submitted to the Constitutional Convention on July 5, 1787...

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were either absent or did not vote for the compromise

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The Great Compromise finally allocated representation on the basis of

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population in the House and statehood equality in the Senate

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Separation of power and federalism were two key principles in the framing of the U.S. Constitution. These two principles are related in that each...

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involves a systems of checks and balances in which power is dispersed.

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Dividing power between the states and the national government is referred to as

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federalism

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What is NOT a way in which Congress can check the federal courts?

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Overturning a court decision with a two-thirds vote in the Senate

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