Colonial Governments Review

The type of Government where the people control the governments through voting and elections is --

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Theocracy

• Monarchy

In most colonial governments, which group of people were allowed to vote?

• property-owning white males

• married men and women

• all men over the age of 20

• anyone over the age of 25

Which American colony was the first to have a government with elected representatives?

• Georgia

• Virginia

• New Jersey

• Pennsylvania

In a democratic government, who creates the laws?

• elected leaders

• judges

• the monarch

• the president

The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first American government to be

• allowed to own slaves

• run by a president.

• elected by the people.

• controlled by England.

Colonial assemblies (a group of lawmakers) were established in all 13 colonies.

• true

• false

In the Virginia Assembly of 1619, the word "burgess" meant

• king

• representative

• governor

• settler

Which of these documents set up the government in the Plymouth Colony?

• the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• the Mayflower Compact

• the Articles of Confederation

• the Magna Carta

Before the American Revolution, the colonists were under the control of Great Britain. Which form of government was used in Great Britain?

• oligarchy

• dictatorship

• theocracy

• monarchy

What was the name of Virginia's colonial assembly or legislature (group of makes the laws)?

• the House of Burgesses

• the Virginia Parliament

• the Governor's Court

• the Virginia Senate