Chapter 2 Notes Quiz

What right did the Magna Carta promise?

• The right to vote

• The right to justice and fair trial

• The right to free education

• The right to bear arms

What did the pilgrims agree to in the Mayflower Compact?

• To follow the king's laws

• To govern themselves

• To return to England

• To trade with France

What event involved colonists protesting the tea tax by throwing tea into the harbor?

• The Boston Massacre

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Stamp Act Repeal

What was the purpose of the Continental Congress?

• To declare war on Britain

• To discuss responses to British policies

• To elect a new king

• To draft a new constitution

Who published "Common Sense" in 1776?

• Thomas Paine

• George Washington

• John Locke

• Thomas Jefferson

According to the Declaration, what are "unalienable rights"?

• Rights that cannot be taken away

• Rights given by the government

• Rights that can be sold

• Rights that are temporary

Whose ideas influenced the Declaration of Independence?

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Voltaire

Which document further limited the power of the English king in 1689?

• The English Bill of Rights

• The Magna Carta

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Constitution

What did Thomas Paine's Common Sense recommend?

• That the colonists should follow the king with complaint

• That the colonists should declare independence and make their own government

• That the colonists should send flowers to the king and apologize for rebelling

• That the king should send thousands of soldiers to the colonies to fight the rebels

What did the Declaration of Independence claim about Britain's government?

• That it had become tyrannical and should be overthrown

• That it was protecting the rights and liberties of the colonists

• That it was taxing the colonists too heavily and needed to be less greedy

• That it should ban TikTok for excessive brain rot