Magna Carta and Mayflower Compact Practice Quiz

What was Magna carta ?

• Limited the kings power , a limited government

• A charter of rights agreed by king John 111

• An Act of Parliament that established Parliamentary supremacy over the monarchy, limiting royal power

When was the mayflower compact ?

• The pilgrims knew they had reached a land that had no English government

• An official paper or form that is a record of something

• To choose leaders and work together to make their own laws for the colony

Who was the mayflower for ?

• Native Americans

• For freedom

• For the pilgrims men

What was the declaration of independence ?

• A story or note talking about how others should take care of themselves

• A book

• Was an act for other native Americans

• The formal statement adopted by the second continental congress

Pilgrims ?

• A group of man who work together to get all of the work done

• A pilgrim is a group

• A hard worker a man of a hard working woman

• They were a group of separatists who didn’t agree with the Church of England

What rights did the English bill of rights give to people ?

• All woman cam go where they please when they want to

• The rights to go home alive and free

• Preventing the monarch from using military force to control the people

• The right to have 20 friends from another place

Which is not a weakness of the article of confederation?

• Each state had 2 votes

• Each state had 10 votes

• No power to tax

• No executive branch

What was the Boston tea party ?

• Was a famous protest against British rule

• A protest against white people and other states that go against them

• Stamp act

The stamp act ?(pick 2)

• Was the first direct tax on the colonists

• Having to pick paying taxes or obeying laws

• The colonists work were they didn’t have to pay

• stamps on paper goods such as newspaper legal documents

Placed taxes on imported goods like glass paper paint lead and tea is ?

• Boston massacre

• Tax on tea stayed

• Boycotts

• Townshed act