Political Science EXAM 2025 NEWEST
EXAM ALL QUESTIONS AND
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A constitution - Answer- presents the fundamental principles of a government and
establishes the basic structures and procedures by which the government operates to
fulfill those principles. May be written or unwritten.
Unwritten Constitution - Answer- collection of written laws approved by a legislative
body and unwritten common laws established by judges, based on custom, culture,
habit, and previous judicial decisions.
Written Constitution - Answer- one specific document supplemented by judicial
interpretations that clarify its meaning
Typically, constitutions begin with.... - Answer- a description of the mission, the long
term goals of the government as envisioned by its founders.
Three foundational government bodies that the U. S. Constitution describes - Answer-
legislative, executive, and judicial branches
Constitution also details .... - Answer- essential operating procedures, including those
used to select national government officials, to make laws, and to amend the
Constitution, as well as the process by which the Constitution was to be ratified
Unlike British subjects living in England in the period before the War for Independence
(1775-1783), - Answer- the colonists, who also regarded themselves as British subjects,
were largely shut out of participating in the political processes.
Eventually, the colonists' private and public conversations about the British
government's damaging treatment of them - Answer- coalesced around the principles of
government by the people (popular sovereignty) and for the people (government
established to protect the people's liberties).
In the 1600s, - Answer- waves of Europeans made the dangerous sea voyage to
America to start new lives.
indentured servants - Answer- voyagers who came to work for a number of years for a
master who paid for their passage.
, By the early eighteenth century... - Answer- a two-tier system of governing the American
colonies had evolved, with governance split between the colonies and Britain
Between 1756 and 1763, - Answer- Britain and France were engaged in the Seven
Years' War, a military conflict that involved all the major European powers of the era
To help pay the towering costs of waging the Seven Years' War and the French and
Indian War, and postwar costs of maintaining peace in America as westward-moving
colonists encroached on Indian lands, - Answer- the British Parliament turned to the
colonists for increased revenues.
The first new tariff imposed after the end of the war was - Answer- The Sugar Act
(1764)
Stamp Act (1765) - Answer- taxed the paper used for all legal documents, bills of sale,
deeds, advertisements, newspapers, and even playing cards
Quartering Act (1765) - Answer- directed each colonial assembly to provide supplies to
meet the basic needs of the British soldiers stationed within its colony ...expanded law
in 1766 to require the assemblies to ensure housing for the soldiers
Declaratory Act - Answer- after repealing the Stamp Act in 1766, this law gave
Parliament the blanket power to assert control over colonies "in any way whatsoever"
Townshend Duties Act of 1767 - Answer- not only expanded the list of imported goods
that would be taxed but also stated that Parliament had unilateral power to impose
taxes as a way of raising revenue and that the colonists had no right to object
By 1770, - Answer- more than 4,000 British soldiers were quartered in the homes of the
16,000 civilians living in Boston
On March 5, 1770, - Answer- an angry mob of nearly 1,800 struggling colonists clashed
with the British soldiers, who shot into the crowd, leaving five dead and six wounded.
"the Boston Massacre"
Tea Act (1773) - Answer- gave the East India Tea Company a monopoly on tea
imported into the colonies
On December 16, 1773, - Answer- fifty colonists, dressed as Mohawk Indians, boarded
the three ships, broke open hundred of crates, and dumped thousands of pounds of tea
into the harbor.
Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) - Answer- closed the port of Boston and kept it closed
until the colonists paid for the lost tea.
EXAM ALL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS|ALREADY
GRADED A+
A constitution - Answer- presents the fundamental principles of a government and
establishes the basic structures and procedures by which the government operates to
fulfill those principles. May be written or unwritten.
Unwritten Constitution - Answer- collection of written laws approved by a legislative
body and unwritten common laws established by judges, based on custom, culture,
habit, and previous judicial decisions.
Written Constitution - Answer- one specific document supplemented by judicial
interpretations that clarify its meaning
Typically, constitutions begin with.... - Answer- a description of the mission, the long
term goals of the government as envisioned by its founders.
Three foundational government bodies that the U. S. Constitution describes - Answer-
legislative, executive, and judicial branches
Constitution also details .... - Answer- essential operating procedures, including those
used to select national government officials, to make laws, and to amend the
Constitution, as well as the process by which the Constitution was to be ratified
Unlike British subjects living in England in the period before the War for Independence
(1775-1783), - Answer- the colonists, who also regarded themselves as British subjects,
were largely shut out of participating in the political processes.
Eventually, the colonists' private and public conversations about the British
government's damaging treatment of them - Answer- coalesced around the principles of
government by the people (popular sovereignty) and for the people (government
established to protect the people's liberties).
In the 1600s, - Answer- waves of Europeans made the dangerous sea voyage to
America to start new lives.
indentured servants - Answer- voyagers who came to work for a number of years for a
master who paid for their passage.
, By the early eighteenth century... - Answer- a two-tier system of governing the American
colonies had evolved, with governance split between the colonies and Britain
Between 1756 and 1763, - Answer- Britain and France were engaged in the Seven
Years' War, a military conflict that involved all the major European powers of the era
To help pay the towering costs of waging the Seven Years' War and the French and
Indian War, and postwar costs of maintaining peace in America as westward-moving
colonists encroached on Indian lands, - Answer- the British Parliament turned to the
colonists for increased revenues.
The first new tariff imposed after the end of the war was - Answer- The Sugar Act
(1764)
Stamp Act (1765) - Answer- taxed the paper used for all legal documents, bills of sale,
deeds, advertisements, newspapers, and even playing cards
Quartering Act (1765) - Answer- directed each colonial assembly to provide supplies to
meet the basic needs of the British soldiers stationed within its colony ...expanded law
in 1766 to require the assemblies to ensure housing for the soldiers
Declaratory Act - Answer- after repealing the Stamp Act in 1766, this law gave
Parliament the blanket power to assert control over colonies "in any way whatsoever"
Townshend Duties Act of 1767 - Answer- not only expanded the list of imported goods
that would be taxed but also stated that Parliament had unilateral power to impose
taxes as a way of raising revenue and that the colonists had no right to object
By 1770, - Answer- more than 4,000 British soldiers were quartered in the homes of the
16,000 civilians living in Boston
On March 5, 1770, - Answer- an angry mob of nearly 1,800 struggling colonists clashed
with the British soldiers, who shot into the crowd, leaving five dead and six wounded.
"the Boston Massacre"
Tea Act (1773) - Answer- gave the East India Tea Company a monopoly on tea
imported into the colonies
On December 16, 1773, - Answer- fifty colonists, dressed as Mohawk Indians, boarded
the three ships, broke open hundred of crates, and dumped thousands of pounds of tea
into the harbor.
Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) - Answer- closed the port of Boston and kept it closed
until the colonists paid for the lost tea.
