13 Colonies and Representative Government

What was the 1st written constitution in the colonies?

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

What was the 1st representative legislature?

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• House of Blues

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Massachusetts House

What document promised certain rights to its citizens and limited the monarchy (king)?

• English Bill of Rights

• American Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

What document was the 1st example of limited government?

• American Carta

• Magna Carta

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• English Bill of Rights

This document was written aboard the Mayflower and served as an example of self government and consent of the governed.

• Mayflower Document

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• Virginia House of Burgesses

This document was written in 1215 in England.

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• English Constitution

• England Document

Under the English Bill of Rights, the monarchy was not allowed to do which of the following (choose 2)

• Collect taxes without consent of the Parliament

• Eat after 12pm

• Interfere with the right to free speech and debate in Parliament

• Create laws without discussing with the people

This document formed a confederation under the guidance of God

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Mayflower Compact

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Magna Carta

True or False: All freemen had voting rights under the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• True

• False

A legislature is...

• a group of people who have the power to make laws

• a group of people who work in the fields

• laws