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Chapter 12: Roots of Government in North Carolina

Self-Check Quizzes

1
In 1789 North Carolina delegates at a convention in Fayetteville ratified the _____.
A)U.S. Constitution
B)Charter of Carolina
C)Declaration of Independence
D)Nineteenth Amendment
2
The Constitution of North Carolina identifies the civil liberties and rights of citizens in _____.
A)The Mecklenburg Declaration
B)Article I, the Declaration of Rights
C)Klopfer v. North Carolina
D)Article II, Legislative
3
The principle of _____ means that the people are the ultimate source of the power of government .
A)separation of powers
B)checks and balances
C)popular sovereignty
D)judicial review
4
North Carolina's present constitution went into effect in _____.
A)1776
B)1835
C)1868
D)1971
5
After the Civil War, passage of the _____ extended voting rights to all male citizens regardless of "race, creed, color, or previous condition of servitude."
A)First Amendment
B)Fifth Amendment
C)Fifteenth Amendment
D)Nineteenth Amendment
6
The goal of the Equal Suffrage League was to _____.
A)set the voting age at 21
B)guarantee women the right to vote
C)extend the right to vote for African Americans
D)allow only citizens who owned property to vote
7
The U.S. Supreme Court decision In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) _____.
A)established the principle of judicial review
B)outlawed segregation in public schools
C)upheld the separate-but-equal doctrine
D)gave Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce
8
In the late 1800s, North Carolina and many other states enacted _____, or laws that required racial segregation in many public places.
A)prior restraints
B)Jim Crow laws
C)laissez-faire laws
D)congressional overrides
9
Federalism is a system of government in which power is _____.
A)divided among three branches of government
B)shared by the national and state governments
C)checked and balanced by the U.S. Constitution
D)shared by the state and local governments
10
The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution establishes the states' _____ powers.
A)expressed
B)enumerated
C)reserved
D)concurrent
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