2-1: Governments in Colonial America

English nobles forced the king to sign the Magna Carta because they were upset over...

• Having to fight in the kings army

• Poor roads and sewer systems

• the lack of good jobs in England

• unfair taxation and cruel treatment of prisioners

The English Bill of Rights was written and passed by...

• King James II

• Parliament

• the American Colonists

• English Nobles

A government in which people elect delegates to make laws for them and to conduct the operations of a government is called a..

• limited government

• constitutional monarchy

• representative government

• direct democracy

The intellectual movement of the 1600's and 1700's that had the biggest impact on American government was...

• the Industrial Revolution

• the Enlightenment

• socialism

• the Renaissance

Each of the 13 American colonies had...

• its own government

• complete control over its affairs

• its own powerful army

• equal voting for all colonists

Who had the right to vote in the early colonies?

• all land owning ment and women

• all white men

• all colonists regardless of race and gender

• white landowning men

The Mayflower Compact was...

• an early letter form the colonists to the king declaring their independence

• an agreement to share the Mayflower between colonies

• an early plan for self government

• an agreement between Pilgrims and Native Americans regarding the use of natural resources

In 1636 Massachusetts Bay Colony established the English colonies first...

• voting regulations

• systems of laws

• official church

• uniform farming practices

Political life in the colonies was dominated by...

• colonial legislatures

• the king and nobles of England

• the clergy who were appointed by the king

• one or two political leaders

The colonies need for roads, schools and courts led to the need for...

• large armies

• new laws

• bigger churches

• powerful leaders