Early Government

The Mayflower Compact is to creating self-government,

as the Virginia House of Burgesses is to ______________

• the first representative legislature.

• religious freedom

• Maryland

• Catholics escaping persecution

What was significant about the Magna Carta?

• It appointed Benjamin Franklin as the first inventor in America

• It promised certain rights to citizens

• It forbid the king from being all powerful

• It created a group of people to make laws in the New World

What is the British Parliament?

• A department store in England

• A new religion to arise in the 1700s

• A Civil Rights group

• A group of elected officials who help make laws

Which option best describes the English Bill of Rights?

• Promised certain rights to citizens

• Clearly described which direction is left and which is right

• Outlines how to have a traditional English tea party

• Appointed most powers to the King

Which of the following is NOT a trait of the First Great Awakening?

• Preachers like Jonathan Edwards became popular

• People asked forgiveness for their sins to go to Heaven

• It meant everyone had to wake up early in the morning to attend sunrise church service

• All people are created equal in God’s eyes

Dictatorship is to one ruler making all decisions,

as Representative Government is to _______________

• Religious freedom

• economic reasons

• people chosen by their town to represent their beliefs

• first representative legislature

What was the end result of Salutary Neglect?

• Made the colonists content with British rule

• Colonists turned to Ireland for political assistance

• Many people moved to California to escape the chaos

• Allowed colonists to become further steeped in self-government

What was Salutary Neglect?

• The British did not enforce their laws strictly on the colonists

• Many moms in England let their children raise themselves

• Army men disobeyed their superiors

• Rich merchants decided to ignore trade laws and taxes

Which definition best describes Mercantilism?

• Undersea life being destroyed by ship yards

• A new way of paving roads that made mail delivery more efficient

• Economic belief that a country becomes more powerful by having more money

• Expectation that you will make more money if you graduate from college

Taking raw materials from other countries to make into new products and sell for gold or silver is-

• the goal of Mercantilism

• a forbidden practice by Britain during the Colonization Era

• a romanticized version of being the “middle man” outlawed in 1889

• essentially highway robbery of poor underdeveloped nations