American Government Influences

Which of the following documents limited the power of the King of England?

• English Bill of Rights
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
• Magna Carta
• Mayflower Compact

Which of the following rights that Americans enjoy today was established in the Magna Carta?

• freedom of speech
• trial by jury
• freedom of religion
• freedom of the press

Which of the following provided the model for the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution?

• Mayflower Compact
• English Bill of Rights
• Magna Carta
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

The first document in England to take power from the King and give it to a representative body.

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Code of Hammurabi

• The Social Contract

In a direct democracy, people vote on issues themselves, rather than electing representatives to decide for them.

• True

• False

The Magna Carta had little effect on the monarchs that ruled after King John.

• True

• False

In Thomas Hobbes’s idea of a social contract, people agree to give up all freedoms in exchange for the order provided by government rule.

• True

• False

In a representative democracy

• all free men over 18 are considered citizens.

• monarchs have absolute rule over the people.

• a monarch represents the people.

• people choose leaders to govern for them.

The Magna Carta is important for establishing which of the following?

• an agreement for governing the colony of Plymouth

• the principle of limited government Choice

• the scientific discoveries of the Enlightenment Choice

• the Virginia Company

Which did Rome have that Greece did not?

• Small Territory

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy

• Monarchy