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Civics EOC Practice Test

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  • 1. Multiple Choice
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    SS.7.C.1.1
    Why did the Founding Fathers separate the power to make, enforce, and interpret laws between
    different branches of government?
    to prevent one branch of government from becoming too powerful
    to make the national government more efficient
    to increase the power of the presidency
    to ensure that Congress would act according to the will of the people
  • 2. Multiple Choice
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    1 pt
    SS.7.C.1.2
    What pamphlet denounced British rule and fanned the flames of revolution?
    Magna Carta
    Two Treatises of Government
    Compact
    Common Sense
  • 3. Multiple Choice
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    SS.7.C.1.3
    Use the quotation to answer the question.
    “THE HORRID MASSACRE IN BOSTON, Perpetrated in the evening of the fifth day of March, 1770, by soldiers of the Twenty-ninth Regiment, which with the Fourteenth Regiment were then quartered there; with some observations on the state of things prior to that catastrophe.” —anonymous account, A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, 1770
    Who most likely wrote this passage and for what reason?
    a Redcoat, to describe the risks faced by soldiers
    a Patriot, to raise fears about the British army in the colonies
    a Loyalist, to gain support for quartering British troops
    an eyewitness, to promote nonviolent protest
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