7th Grade Ch 4- Life in the Colonies

Question 1

magna carta

Answer 1

first document to place restrictions on english ruler’s power by english nobles. limited heavy taxes, right to own private property, and right to trial by jury

Question 2

under magna carta, nobles formed great counsil

Answer 2

parliament- a two house legislature, group of people who make laws

Question 3

parliament removed james ii and made mary and william to rule

Answer 3

called glorious revolution. together signed english bill of rights, list of freedoms, listed habeas corpus, a person can’t be in prison without a reason

Question 4

name some colonial legislatures

Answer 4

house of burgesses-virginia
general court- Massachusetts
general assembly-pennsylvania

Question 5

freedom of press

Answer 5

right of journalists to publish the truth without restriction

Question 6

libel

Answer 6

publishing of statements that damage a persons reputation

Question 7

navigation acts

Answer 7

passed by parliament to support mercantilism

ex: shipments from europe had to go through england first, imports from colonies had to be on english built boats

Question 8

extended family

Answer 8

family that includes grandparents cousins in the regular family

Question 9

farm life

Answer 9

needed big family to help

Question 10

town life

Answer 10

easier for not big families

Question 11

husbands roles

Answer 11

controlled income and property, represented family in politics

Question 12

women roles

Answer 12

domestic responsibilities, had no public life

Question 13

kids roles

Answer 13

homemade toys, had to work by age of 7, boys became apprentices, someone who learns a trade by working in that trade for a period of time

Question 14

gentry

Answer 14

upper class of colonial society, wealthy, public figures, few in number

Question 15

middle class

Answer 15

made up of planters, farmers, and artisans, could vote, mostly while or free blacks

Question 16

indentured servants

Answer 16

worked for 4-10 years in the colonies for anyone who would pay for their passage to america, came from england, ireland, germany

Question 17

middle passage

Answer 17

the trip across atlantic, cramped

Question 18

triangular trade

Answer 18

three way trade between colonies, islands of caribbean, and africa

Question 19

first leg of tri trade

Answer 19

new england with caribbean (fish with sugar)

Question 20

second leg of tri trade

Answer 20

new england with africa (sugar with slaves)

Question 21

third leg of tri trade

Answer 21

africa with caribbean (slaves with money)

Question 22

why was slavery needed in colonies

Answer 22

plantations! first were temp but then became permanent, linked with racism, belief that one race is superior to another

Question 23

slave codes

Answer 23

strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves
ex: couldn’t meet in large numbers, own weapons, leave plantation without permission, couldn’t teach a slave to read/write

Question 24

public school

Answer 24

school supported by taxes, mostly puritan, taught reading writing arithmetic religion, some would not admit girls

Question 25

dame school

Answer 25

schools that women opened in their homes to teach girls or boys

Question 26

school level

Answer 26

elementary
grammar
upper (only boys- harvard)

Question 27

anne bradstreet

Answer 27

first colonial poet

Question 28

phillis wheatly

Answer 28

first african slave poet

Question 29

benjamin franklin

Answer 29

famous writer, scientist, inventor, businessman

Question 30

great awakening

Answer 30

1730s religious revival movement, led to rise of new churches (methodist, baptist)

Question 31

johnathan edwards

Answer 31

preacher during great awakening

Question 32

the enlightenment

Answer 32

movement where people believed all problems could be solved by human reason

Question 33

john locke

Answer 33

said that people have natural rights, rights that belong to everyone since birth and can’t be taken away, said that divine right doesn’t exist, monarchs get rule from god

Question 34

montesquieu

Answer 34

favored separation of powers, division of power of government so no branch has too much power, made our government how it is today