Our English Heritage and The Colonial Experience Review

Which Term? - A person of power in England who is likely a wealthy landowner. *Not Royalty

• Nobles

• Monarch

• Commoners

• Regulars

Which Term? - Royalty – Kings and Queens.

• Regulars

• Commoners

• Monarch

• Nobles

Which Term? - Any group of people that makes laws .

• Commoners

• Compacters

• Legislature

• Villagers

Which Term? - Britain’s legislature.

• Congress

• Parliament

• Federation

• Compact

Which Term? - Something that sets a standard for future events.

• Compact

• President

• Precedent

• Showdown

Something that is not known, experienced or done before is said to be _____________________.

• old

• unprecedented

• compact

• common law

Which Term? - An unwritten system of law based on precedent which the United States borrowed from Great Britain.

• Uncommon Law

• Common Law

• Compact Law

• Serial Law

What document signed by the King in England in 1215 demanded that the rights of the nobles be restored.

• Declaration of Independence

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• Burgesses Document

This event occurred in 1688 when the English Parliament overthrew the Monarchy. Ever since this event the Parliament has had more power than the Monarch.

• Great Charter

• Signing of the Mayflower Compact

• Glorious Revolution

• Signing of the Declaration of Forgivingness

This ____________________, which was written in 1689, established that the English Parliament had the sole power to make laws, raise taxes, and control the army.

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Declaration of Independence

• House of Burgesses Registry