Growth of Representative Government

Which of the following describes a representative government?

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

• A small group of religious clerics making key decisions

• One leader delegating specific tasks to assistants

• Keeping power in one family for centuries

What was the significance of the Mayflower Compact?

• Reprimanded disorderly travelers

• First document to create self-government in America

• Appointed the first president and elected legislature

• Abolished slavery in America

What is the significance of the Virginia House of Burgesses?

• Last evidence of English rule in the colonies

• Established the colony of Virginia

• First description of a free market system

• First representative legislature in the colonies

What is the significance of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?

• First representative legislature in the colonies

• First written Constitution that listed the rights of citizens

• First social contract written by the Pilgrims

Why did the colonies begin practicing self-government in the colonies?

• Because of their need for control and regulation

• Because they wanted anarchy in the colonies

• Because they believed that everyone was unequal

• Because they were so far away from the King in Great Britain (salutary neglect)

What is the significance of the Magna Carta?

• It appointed Benjamin Franklin as the first inventor in America.

• It promise certain rights to the citizens

• It forbid the king from being too powerful

• It created a group of people to make laws in the New World

What is the British Parliament?

• A group of elected officials who make laws

• A new religion to arise in the 1700s

• A department store in England

• A Civil Rights group

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the First Great Awakening?

• People asked forgiveness for their sins to go to heaven

• All people are created equal in God's eyes

• It meant that everyone had to wake up early in the morning to attend sunrise church services

• Preachers like Jonathan Edwards gave sermons to large crowds