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Civics End of Course Practice Exam QUESTIONS
& ANSWERS VERIFIED 100% CORRECT!!
The statements below are from the Declaration of Independence.
A) All men...are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness...
B) He has..,obstruct[ed] the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners;
refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither...
C) Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed.
D) The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history...having
in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these
States.
Which statement reflects the Enlightenment ideas of natural law as expressed by
Locke? - (answer)A
What did many American colonists use Thomas Paine's Common Sense to justify?
- (answer)Declaring independence from Britain
The diagram describes a cause that led to the writing of the Declaration of
Independence.
, 2
1 British increase taxes on colonists.
2 Colonists reject taxes passed without representation.
3?
4 Declaration of Independence. - (answer)British ignore colonist grievances
The Declaration of Independence included these complaints:
• Taxation without representation
• Limiting judicial powers
• Quartering Troops
• Dissolving legislature
Which complaint should be added to this list? - (answer)Suspending trial by jury in
many cases
The passage below was written by John Locke in his Second Treatise of Civil
Government
Government being for the preservation of every
man's right and property, by preserving him from
the violence or injury of others, is for the good of the
governed.
Based on this passage, with which complaint in the Declaration of Independence
would John Locke agree? - (answer)He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most
wholesome and necessary for the public good
Civics End of Course Practice Exam QUESTIONS
& ANSWERS VERIFIED 100% CORRECT!!
The statements below are from the Declaration of Independence.
A) All men...are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness...
B) He has..,obstruct[ed] the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners;
refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither...
C) Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed.
D) The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history...having
in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these
States.
Which statement reflects the Enlightenment ideas of natural law as expressed by
Locke? - (answer)A
What did many American colonists use Thomas Paine's Common Sense to justify?
- (answer)Declaring independence from Britain
The diagram describes a cause that led to the writing of the Declaration of
Independence.
, 2
1 British increase taxes on colonists.
2 Colonists reject taxes passed without representation.
3?
4 Declaration of Independence. - (answer)British ignore colonist grievances
The Declaration of Independence included these complaints:
• Taxation without representation
• Limiting judicial powers
• Quartering Troops
• Dissolving legislature
Which complaint should be added to this list? - (answer)Suspending trial by jury in
many cases
The passage below was written by John Locke in his Second Treatise of Civil
Government
Government being for the preservation of every
man's right and property, by preserving him from
the violence or injury of others, is for the good of the
governed.
Based on this passage, with which complaint in the Declaration of Independence
would John Locke agree? - (answer)He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most
wholesome and necessary for the public good
