Foundations of American Government: Review

What BEST describes the Mayflower Compact?

• It created the idea of Freedom of Religion in America

• Document where colonists agreed to create AND follow the laws established

• Document explaining how the Pilgrims were going to get to America

Why was the Mayflower Compact important?

• Setup the idea in America of the social contract and consent of the governed

• Destroyed the idea of having a King or Queen as a leader

• It prohibited slavery in the 13 colonies of America

What BEST describes the House of Burgesses?

• It was the site of the signing of the Great Charter of Freedom in 1621

• It was the first representative government in British North America

• It was the location of the first meetings with Native Americans (Powhatan Tribe)

What was the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?

• It ordered all people in Connecticut to begin participating in government

• It was the first written constitution in America

• It was the location of the first slave auction in the English colonies

What is significant about the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut? (Select all that apply)

• It set an example for future written constitutions in America

• It was the first written constitution in America

• It limited the power of government

Which of these help explain why American Colonists relied on self-government? (Select all that apply)

• Geography- England is FAR AWAY

• England was too busy with events in Europe to control the American colonies

• Some colonies were created with a charter which allowed them to govern themselves

What was significant about the pamphlet Common Sense, by Thomas Paine?

• It argued that the Colonists should not be ruled by a King & should make their own nation

• It said that war was never good

• It argued that the Colonists should pay their taxes so their lives would be better

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Which of these explain why American Colonists declared independence? (Select all that apply)

• The Colonists had grown apart from their mother country

• To end slavery

• The colonists realized they would never be treated as equals

  with the British

• The American people had felt their rights were being violated (such as taxation without representation)

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...”  This quote is evidence that some of the basic ideas in the Declaration of Independence were:

• Ideas author Thomas Jefferson developed on his own without any help

• Borrowed from Ben Franklin and his book Life: How to be Free and Happy

• Reflections of the ideas of philosophers of the Enlightenment, such as John Locke

What are some Enlightenment ideas that inspired the American Revolution? (Select all that apply)

• People are born with natural rights, including life, liberty, & property

• Government should be of, by, and for the People

• No one group or person should have all of the power

• Women deserve equal rights