Ch 4 Lesson 1: Influences on American Colonial Government

In a direct democracy, people vote on issues themselves, rather than electing representatives to decide for them.

• True

• False

The ancient Greek city-state of Athens created the world’s first republic.

• True

• False

The Magna Carta had little effect on the monarchs that ruled after King John.

• True

• False

In Thomas Hobbes’s idea of a social contract, people agree to give up all freedoms in exchange for the order provided by government rule.

• True

• False

The Mayflower Compact established a direct democracy, meaning the colony of Plymouth directly elected representatives who would govern them.

• True

• False

A legislature is

• an agreement among the people in a society.

• an assembly of judges.

• a lawmaking body.

• the principle that a ruler or government is not all powerful.

The Magna Carta is important for establishing which of the following?

• an agreement for governing the colony of Plymouth

• the principle of limited government

• the scientific discoveries of the Enlightenment

• the Virginia Company

The colony of Jamestown chose an assembly of representatives known as

• the House of Burgesses

• the Magna Carta.

• the Mayflower Compact.

• Parliament