Colonial Government

___________ means to elect people who make decisions for the rest of the population.

• Indentured servitude

• Diversity

• Representative Government

• Colonial charter

The Magna Carta effected English government by

• limiting the power of the king

• permitting slavery across England

• forcing them to sign the Bill of Rights

• forcing the king to step down

What conclusion can be drawn from the fact that there are many similarities in the English Bill of Rights (1689) and the US Bill of Rights (1791)?

• They were written by the same person

• The English were influential on the American government

• Americans hated the British

• Americans had no Constitution

The Great Awakening represented

• a renewed interest in Science

• a religious revivial

• new ideas about freedom

• overwhelming patriotism for Britain

An economic theory by which one country builds wealth by forcing their colonies to trade with only them.

• barter

• supply and demand

• Marxism

• mercantilism

what document sets limits on the King's power?

• English Bill of Rights

• Bill of England

• Bill of Wrongs

• Bill of Laws

A document that protected English citizens from unfair treatment by the King was called?

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• Constitution of England

• Charter

To protest the Navigation Acts, what did the colonists begin to do?

• pay taxes

• pay fees

• smuggle goods

• shoot English soldiers

What were the laws that Parliament passed to control the colonist's trade with other countries?

• Import/Export Acts

• Stamp Act

• Navigation Acts

• Taxation of Colonies Act

What is the basis for mercantilism?

• to spend all of a country's money

• to import more

• to export less

• to build wealth and power