Colonial Experience and Influences of Gov

Colonists had to obey ________ and King George III and all the laws that were made by them.

• Parliament
• Congress
• Queen Elizabeth
• Founding Fathers

Colonists were used to having _____________ because of the distance of England and England was too busy fighting wars to think about the colonists.

• a dictatorship
• oligarchy
• self-government
• anarchy

Citizens in the colonies elected representatives to the  _______ .

• Legislature
• Parliament
• Monarchy
• Secret Club

____________, group of people who make laws.

• Oligarchy
• Monarchy
• Legislature
• Dictatorship

______________, abuse of power. Colonists felt the King and Royal Governors were becoming this.

• Democracy
• Free
• Tyranny
• Not powerful enough

American colonists were influenced by the ancient Athenians for their ________________.

• Direct Democracy
• Republic
• Magna Carta
• Constitution

American colonists were influenced by the Romans for their _________ because it showed the government should have elected representatives.

• Direct Democracy
• Republic
• Oligarchy
• Dictatorship

_____________: •Concept that all members of the government, even the leader, must follow the law.

• Constitutional Monarchy
• Absolute Monarchy
• Dictatorship
• Rule of Law

_______ _________ gave American colonists the ideas of rule of law and that the leader's power should be limited.

• Declaration of Independence
• Roman Republic
• Direct Democracy
• Magna Carta

____________ situation where there is no government.

• Monarchy
• Anarchy
• Direct Democracy
• Republic