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box 4...What did the Mayflower Compact include?

• It was the first constitution in the colonies

• a CIVIL BODY POLITICK and a form of self-government

• in was the first elected legislative assembly in the colonies

• none of these

The distance from Great Britain led to

• the development of self-government/ representative government

• establishing a king for each colony

• increased shipbuilding for travel

• Parliament establishing new religious traditions in Great Britain

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• limited the power of the monarchy and allowed a trial by jury

• strengthened the power of the monarchy

• form of self-government

• 1st representative assembly in the colonies

box 4... The Mayflower Compact, House of Burgesses, and FundamentalOrders of Connecticut were important in the development of democracy because they --

• gave all colonists the right to vote.

• ensured religious freedom

• overrode the power of the English king

• focused on the importance of self-government.

*Distance from Great Britain
*Mayflower Compact
*Town hall meetings
The factors listed above contributed most to the

• creation of alliances between British settlers and American Indians
• election of British colonists to Parliament
• growth of representative government in the British colonies
• expansion of British trade in the Americas

Which phrase best represents the colonists main complaint against the British taxation?

• "We're going to build a wall and make the British pay for it."

• "Join or die!"

• "No taxation without representation"

• "America - I'm Lovin' It!"

box 13... British policy prohibited colonists from moving past the western boundary of Appalachian Mountains

• Proclamation of 1763

• Sugar Act, 1764

• Stamp Act, 1765

• Declaratory Act, 1766

• Townshend Acts, 1767

box 5... The New England Colonies (Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts) were founded primarily for

• Economic gain

• Religious Freedom

• Political Freedom

• Refuge for Catholics

box 10... What is one way that the King tries to get back money from the French and Indian War?

• Enforce the navigation acts

• stamp act(taxes)

• Sell the colonies to France

• Get a job

box 12...Thomas Jefferson is best remembered for writing the ______________.

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence