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Florida CivicLiteracy Exam
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,What form of government does the US use? - Answer: Representative Democracy
What was one of the main reasons the English colonists came to the New World? - Answer: Land
Acquisition, religious persecution, political liberty, economic opportunity
What rights are stated in the Declaration of Independence? - Answer: life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness
What were the reasons the colonists separated from England? - Answer: Five reasons the American
colonists separated from Britain are the Proclamation of 1763, the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the
Townshend Acts, and the Quartering Act.
How did the French and Indian War (1763) affect the colonists? - Answer: changed the relationship
between England and its American colonies in that its outcome eliminated the colonies' need for the
British military and led to the Proclamation of 1763, the Quartering Act, and various taxes, all of which
angered the colonists and contributed to the American Revolution
What was the Virginia House of Burgesses? - Answer: The House of Burgesses was the first assembly of
elected representatives of English colonists in North America.
What are the three branches of the US government? - Answer: Executive, Legislative, Judicial
What is the system of checks and balance of the US government? - Answer: stops one branch of
government from becoming too powerful. This means that each branch can block, or threaten to block,
the actions of the other branches
What are the three levels of the US government? - Answer: local, state, federal
What are the powers of Congress? - Answer: 1. taxing
2. printing money
3. declaring war
, What are the powers of the president? - Answer: Commander of military, nominate Federal judges,
ambassadors, and other high ranking officials, negotiate treaties, Pardon citizens (forgive a crime),
Represent the United States for other countries
What are the powers of the Supreme Court? - Answer: Declare laws unconstitutional and declare
presidential acts unconstitutional, interpret the meaning of a law, to decide whether a law is relevant to
a particular set of facts, or to rule on how a law should be applied
What was the "Great Compromise"? - Answer: Small-state delegates demanded, with comparable
intensity, that all states be equally represented in both houses. Also called Connecticut Compromise of
1787
How are the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate chosen? - Answer: Directly
elected by the public
How are the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate allocated? - Answer: After
extensive debate, the framers of the Constitution agreed to create the House with representation based
on population and the Senate with equal representation. 2 Senators from each state and
Representatives based off of population
What is the process of Presidential succession? - Answer: If the President of the United States is
incapacitated, dies, resigns, is for any reason unable to hold his/her office, or is removed from office,
he/she will be replaced in the following order: Vice President. Speaker of the House. President Pro
Tempore of the Senate.
What is the Electoral College? - Answer: A body of electors who represent the people's vote in choosing
the president.
What is gerrymandering? - Answer: when a political group tries to change a voting district to create a
result that helps them or hurts the group who is against them. It is named after Elbridge Gerry (1744-
1814).
Proclamation of 1763 - Answer: A proclamation from the British government which forbade British
colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living
west of the mountains to move back east.
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