Colonization Part 3 Warmup

Which of the following describes a representative government?

• A small group of religious clerics making key decisions

• One leader delegating specific tasks to assistants

• A government made up of people chosen by their towns to represent them

• Keeping power in one family for centuries

Which choice is NOT an example of the growth of Representative Government in America?

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• England’s Constitution

• Virginia House of Burgesses

What was the significance of the Mayflower Compact?

• Appointed the first president

• Reprimanded disorderly travelers

• First document to create self-government in America

• Abolished slavery

What did the Virginia House of Burgesses accomplish?

• First representative legislature(law making) in the colonies

• First description of a free market system

• Last evidence of English rule in the colonies

• Established the colony of Virginia

This is from the beginning of your Unit 2 notes: (Who was the first anti-slavery group?)

• William Penn and the Quakers in Pennsylvania

• Salem witches

• Pilgrims

• Mormans