influential documents QUIZ GRADE

Which document was written by Thomas Paine? (#23)

• Social Contract

• Common Sense

• Mayflower Compact

• Declaration of Independence

Which one established self-government in the American colonies? (#21)

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Social Contract

• Mayflower Compact

Which one included free speech and the right to bear arms? (#21)

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• The Enlightenment

• Mayflower Compact

Which one established the idea of limited government? (#21)

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Social Contract

A pamphlet published by Thomas Paine in 1776 to convince the American colonists to support becoming independent from England. (#23)

• English Bill of Rights

• Common Sense

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

A government document that limited the power of the king of England and protected the rights of the nobility; written by the English Nobles in 1215. (#21)

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Common Sense

An agreement between individuals that created a government that would provide order and protect the rights of the colonists; written by a group of English Puritans in Massachusetts in 1620. (#21)

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• Cato's Letters

“Some people say that, because America has grown wealthy under Great Britain, the same will happen in the future. Nothing can be more false. . . . I answer that America would have become just as wealthy, and probably more, had no European power ever been involved.”

- Thomas Paine, 1776

The passage is taken from a pamphlet written in the 1700s. Which of these is the MOST LIKELY purpose of the pamphlet?

• to convince colonists to stay under British rule

• to convince colonists that taxes were okay

• to convince colonists to separate from (or to be independent from) Great Britain

• to convince colonists to move to Great Britain

Why was the Magna Carta important for the development of democracy? (#21)

• The Magna Carta limited the King's power and prevented absolutism from taking hold in England.

• Parliament became more powerful than the monarch.

• It guaranteed liberty to all.

• It outlawed slavery.

Why was the Declaration of Independence written? (#23)

• to explain why the colonies were separating from Great Britain

• the start the American Revolution

• to offer a peace settlement to Great Britain.

• to instruct how a county wins its freedom.