Colonies and their Governments

This region of the colonies was rich in natural resources such as lumber, metals, and natural harbors.

• Middle Colonies

• New England Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Western Colonies

Wealthy, powerful plantation owners dominated this region's government and economy.

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Western Colonies

__________ believed that people were born with certain God-given rights such as the right to life, liberty and ____________. The writer of the Declaration of Independence was clearly influenced by his ideas.

• Locke/happiness

• Voltaire/happiness

• Locke/property

• Voltaire/property

Locke believed that a ___________ existed between the people and the government where people agreed to give up some rights and in return received protection from the government

• social contract
• public treaty
• citizen agreement
• government contract

Niccolo Machiavelli wrote that rulers should be

• kind and compassionate
• feared and not loved

• honest and fair
• weak and indecisive

Baron Montesquieu advocated the ____________ so that no single branch of government could become too powerful.

• centralization of powers
• concentration of powers
• fusion of powers
• separation of powers

What were 4 documents that influenced American Government?

• Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, Mayflower Compact, Thomas Paine's Common Sense

• The Bible, The Quran, The Torah, The Vedas
• The Articles of Confederation, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, The 20th Amendment

• Magna Carta, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Articles of Confederation

The Magna Carta limited the monarch's power and established the ____________.

• absolute monarchy
• divine right of kings
• tyranny
• rule of law

The Mayflower Compact established _____________ and a direct democracy in colonial America.

• monarchy
• oligarchy
• self-government
• dictatorship

___________used the ideas of John Locke in Common Sense.

• Thomas Paine
• Alexander Hamilton
• George Washington
• Benjamin Franklin