Chapter 2 Section 1

Question 1

Monarch

Answer 1

King or queen

Question 2

Charter

Answer 2

A written document granting land and authority to set up colonial governments

Question 3

Compact

Answer 3

An agreement among a group of people

Question 4

Legislature

Answer 4

A group of people who make laws

Question 5

Parliament

Answer 5

The law making body in England

Question 6

Common law

Answer 6

System of law based on precedent and custom

Question 7

Document written in 1215 that limited the power of the English king

Answer 7

Magna Carta

Question 8

Why is Magna Carta important

Answer 8

Protected nobles privileges and upheld authority

Gave them equal treatment under the law

Question 9

Who had more power over the monarch after the glorious revolution

Answer 9

Legislature

Question 10

What are some things that the English bill of rights did

Answer 10

Monarch could not suspend parliaments laws, create special courts, impose taxes

Question 11

Virginia house of burgesses

Answer 11

First representative legislature

Marked the beginning of self-government in colonial America

Question 12

Mayflower compact

Answer 12

Stated They would have just and equal rights

Established a tradition for direct democracy in England

Question 13

Precedent

Answer 13

A ruling used for a judicial decision in a later case

Question 14

Who was forced to sign the Magna Carta?

Answer 14

King John

Question 15

Revolution where King James the second was taken from power. William and Mary orange were put into power in England. The English Bill of Rights was written.

Answer 15

Glorious Revolution

Question 16

A group of people in one place at a ruled by a parent country elsewhere

Answer 16

Colony

Question 17

First permanent English colony in North America

Answer 17

Jamestown

Question 18

Mayflower compact

Answer 18

Written plan of government by the pilgrims for their settlement at Plymouth