Roots of Representative Government chap 4

When the British govenment relaxed enforcement of strict laws and regulations on the American Colonies, this was known as...

• compact

• salutary neglect

• bicameral

• indigo nation

All of the following are true about the Magna Carta except...

• No trial without witnesses would occur

• A trial by jury would now happen

• Taxation would happen with consent (permission) by a council

• Property rights of free men were not protected

In 1620, the ______________ was signed in Plymouth, Massachusetts. This document helped establish the idea of self-government and majority rule.

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• American Bill of Rights

England's law making body is known as _____________. It has a bicameral legislature known as the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

• Congress

• Big Ben

• Parliment

• the legislature

In the colonies, Colonists started Colonial Assemblies, like the House of Burgesses, to make laws within their colonies.

• true

• false

How were colonial assemblies limited? (pick 2)

• The governor who was appointed by the king had to approve the laws.

• The governor apppointed all the members of the colonial assembly

• The governor could dismiss the colonial assembly

• The governor conducted all the trials in the colony and could influence the jury's verdict.

Which law prohibited the colonies from trading with other countries, except England?

• The Stamp Act

• The Nautical Act

• The Navigation Acts

• The Coercive Acts

What do the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, and the Mayflower Compact have in Common?

• All were created to expand the power of the King of England

• All were laws created by the English Parliament

• They all served as models for our American Bill of Rights

• They were all laws that were written in the 1600's

How did England's policies toward the colonies change after the Glorious Revolution?

• England gave the colonies more representation in Parliament.

• The new monarchs strengthened the rights of all citizens.

• Catholicism became the official religion in the colonies

• England put King James II back in power

ministers George Whitefield and Johathan Edwards started religious revivals known as...

• The Great Awakening

• The Enlightenment

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Glorious Revolution