2.1 - Government in Colonial America

A government in which people elect delegates to make laws for them and to conduct the operations of government is called a

• limited government.

• constitutional monarchy.

• representative government.

• direct democracy.

The Mayflower Compact was

• an early letter from the colonists to the king declaring their independence.

• an agreement to share the Mayflower between colonies.

• an early plan for self-government.

• an agreement between Pilgrims and Native Americans regarding the use of natural resources.

In 1636 the Massachusetts Bay Colony established the English colonies' first

• voting regulations.

• system of laws.

• official church.

• uniform farming practices.

Political life in the colonies was dominated by

• colonial legislatures.

• the king and nobles of England.

• the clergy who were appointed by the king.

• one or two political leaders.

Each of the thirteen American colonies had

• its own government.

• complete control over its affairs.

• its own powerful army.

• equal voting rights for all colonists.

The colonies' need for roads, schools, and courts led to the need for

• large armies.

• new laws.

• bigger churches.

• powerful leaders.

The intellectual movement of the 1600s and 1700s that had the biggest impact on American government was

• the Industrial Revolution.

• the Enlightenment.

• socialism.

• the Renaissance.

Who had the right to vote in the early colonies?

• all land-owning men and women

• all white men

• all colonists regardless of race and gender

• white, land-owning men

English nobles forced the king to sign the Magna Carta because they were upset over

• having to fight in the king's army.

• poor roads and sewer systems.

• the lack of good jobs in England.

• unfair taxation and cruel treatment of prisoners.

The English Bill of Rights was written and passed by

• King James II.

• Parliament.

• the American colonists.

• English nobles.