Quiz Me! - Era: Creation of the Constitution Test your knowledge about the Creation of the Constitution era. 1 / 10 Who is the author of Leviathan? Baron Charles de Montesquieu Thomas Hobbes William Blackstone John Locke 2 / 10 What is a major influence of the English Petition of Right on the American government? The document influenced America’s right to petition and right to due process of law. America borrowed the idea of state’s rights from the English Petition of Right. The entire U.S. Bill of Rights is taken from the English Petition of Right. It modeled how to get a monarchy to listen to the rights of people. 3 / 10 What did the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom accomplish? Citizens could practice religious freedom as long as they claimed a Christian religion. It was the first document to disestablish a state religion and protect religious freedom. It required all teachers to be a member of the Episcolpol church. It required all businesses to be closed on Sundays for religious services. 4 / 10 Which significant historical event is described above? Northwest Rebellion John Brown’s Rebellion Shays’ Rebellion Bacon’s Rebellion 5 / 10 Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a political philosopher who argued that man was essentially good, but degraded into cruelty without laws. This was referred to as being a what? A noble savage A caveman An aristocrat A human 6 / 10 How was Shays’ Rebellion similar to the colonists' rebellion against Britain? Soldiers were being quartered in private homes. The government was unable to keep the peace. The Americans refused to pay the tax on whiskey. Citizens rebelled over unfair taxation. 7 / 10 He rewrote the Preamble to the Constitution to read “We the People” instead of “We the States.” Gouverneur Morris Alexander Hamilton Thomas Jefferson George Mason 8 / 10 After the delegates signed the Constitution on September 17, what happened next? Protesters opposed the new Constitution because the document was created in secret. Rhode Island delegates refused to sign the new Constitution. Each state held a ratifying convention to approve or reject the Constitution. The Constitution became the official U.S. government when all states signed the document. 9 / 10 George Mason’s Virginia Declaration of Rights served as a template for what? The Magna Carta Preamble to the Constitution The Bill of Rights The Declaration of Independence 10 / 10 This French nobleman is said to be the most quoted political philosopher by the men at the Constitutional Convention. Marquis de Lafayette John Locke Baron de Montesquieu Thomas Hobbes Your score is Restart quiz
