FCLE Broward College Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
What form does the U.S. government have? -
correct answer ✅Constitutional Federal Republic
What was one of the main reasons the English colonists came to
the New World? -
correct answer ✅Religious freedom, economic opportunities, and
political liberty
What rights are stated in the Declaration of Independence? -
correct answer ✅Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
What were the reason the colonists separated from England? -
correct answer ✅Taxation, British Control, Lack of Self-
Government
How did the French and Indian war (1763) affect the colonists? -
correct answer ✅The war provided Great Britain enormous
territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent
frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial
discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
,FCLE Broward College Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
What was the Virginia House of Burgesses? -
correct 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? -
correct answer ✅Legislative, Executive, Judicial
What is the system of checks and balances in the US government? -
correct answer ✅A system that allows each branch of government
to amend or veto acts of another branch to prevent one branch
from exerting too much power
What are the three levels of the US government? -
correct answer ✅federal, state, local
What are the powers of Congress? -
correct answer ✅Regulate trade, raise and support a military,
declare war, establish a post office.
What are the powers of the president? -
correct answer ✅Commander of military, nominate Federal
judges, ambassadors, and other high ranking officials, negotiate
, FCLE Broward College Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
treaties, Pardon citizens (forgive a crime), Represent the United
States for other countries
What are the powers of the Supreme Court? -
correct answer ✅Declare laws unconstitutional and declare
presidential acts unconstitutional
What was the Great Compromise? -
correct answer ✅Created a bicameral legislature (combined VA
and NJ plans to create Congress) one house based on
representation, one house has equal representation
How are the members of the House of Representatives and the
Senate chosen? -
correct answer ✅directly elected by the public
How are the members of the House of Representatives in the
Senate allocated? -
correct answer ✅Each state 2 senators and a house of
representatives based on population.
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
What form does the U.S. government have? -
correct answer ✅Constitutional Federal Republic
What was one of the main reasons the English colonists came to
the New World? -
correct answer ✅Religious freedom, economic opportunities, and
political liberty
What rights are stated in the Declaration of Independence? -
correct answer ✅Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
What were the reason the colonists separated from England? -
correct answer ✅Taxation, British Control, Lack of Self-
Government
How did the French and Indian war (1763) affect the colonists? -
correct answer ✅The war provided Great Britain enormous
territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent
frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial
discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
,FCLE Broward College Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
What was the Virginia House of Burgesses? -
correct 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? -
correct answer ✅Legislative, Executive, Judicial
What is the system of checks and balances in the US government? -
correct answer ✅A system that allows each branch of government
to amend or veto acts of another branch to prevent one branch
from exerting too much power
What are the three levels of the US government? -
correct answer ✅federal, state, local
What are the powers of Congress? -
correct answer ✅Regulate trade, raise and support a military,
declare war, establish a post office.
What are the powers of the president? -
correct answer ✅Commander of military, nominate Federal
judges, ambassadors, and other high ranking officials, negotiate
, FCLE Broward College Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
treaties, Pardon citizens (forgive a crime), Represent the United
States for other countries
What are the powers of the Supreme Court? -
correct answer ✅Declare laws unconstitutional and declare
presidential acts unconstitutional
What was the Great Compromise? -
correct answer ✅Created a bicameral legislature (combined VA
and NJ plans to create Congress) one house based on
representation, one house has equal representation
How are the members of the House of Representatives and the
Senate chosen? -
correct answer ✅directly elected by the public
How are the members of the House of Representatives in the
Senate allocated? -
correct answer ✅Each state 2 senators and a house of
representatives based on population.
