Roots of Self-Government

Which is a right the Magna Carta gave English people?

• It established a Parliament with two houses.

• It guaranteed freemen the right to a trial by a jury of nobles.

• It required that witnesses had to be of the same social rank as the accused.

• It prevented the king or his officials from taking people's property.

Who angered northern colonists by ending representative assemblies and limiting town meetings?

• King James II

• Edmund Andros

• Increase Mather

• King Charles II

Which was guaranteed by the English Bill of Rights?

• Parliament would set fines and punishments, not the monarch.

• Elections had to be free and Parliament had to meet frequently.

• The monarch could impose taxes on merchants but not landowners.

• Parliament had the right to name who would be king or queen.

England's hands-off policy in the colonies was known as...

• salutary neglect.

• self-government.

• consent of Parliament.

• the rights of Englishmen.

How could a colonial assembly keep a royal governor from taking too much power?

• by appointing new people to his council

• by making laws that took away his powers

• by refusing to pay his salary

• by disbanding the assembly