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Question 1

What is the magna Carta?

Answer 1

it is a document signed by the king to limit his power

Question 2

What is Parliament?

Answer 2

A great Council that advised and consented the king

Question 3

What is the English Bill of rights?

Answer 3

It was a list of privelages and freedoms for the citizens

Question 4

What was the John Peter Zenger trial?

Answer 4

It was a trial when Peter Zenger wrote something nasty but true letter about the prime minister and in court he was found not guilty

Question 5

what is a bill of rights?

Answer 5

limits the power of the goverment

Question 6

what is libel?

Answer 6

A section in writing that

Question 7

What is the English Bill of rights

Answer 7

When King William and Queen

Mary signed a document that promised they would protect the peoples freedom

Question 8

What is the Glorious Revolution

Answer 8

When King James II was thrown from the throne

Question 9

Purpose of the Navigation Acts

Answer 9

The purpose was to regulate the trade of the empire and so it could enable the Mother Country to derive a profit from their colonies

Question 10

What is Gentry

Answer 10

It is the class in the UK that is below nobility

Question 11

What is a legislature

Answer 11

A legislature has two houses that have the power to make laws

Question 12

What is an apprentice

Answer 12

A person who is in learning behind the current job and who will eventually take over that job

Question 13

What is an Indentured servant

Answer 13

An Indentured Servant was usually came over to payoff their debt so
they had to serve people before they could live their new life

Question 14

Racism

Answer 14

Is a belief that humans are divided into different racis

Question 15

Slave Codes

Answer 15

Strict laws that restricted slave activity

Question 16

Who is Benjamin Franklin

Answer 16

Benjamin Franklin is founding Father of the United States and also an inventor, scientist, and writer

Question 17

What is the Great Awakening

Answer 17

It is a religious Revival in America

Question 18

What was the Enlightment

Answer 18

It was a movement that was supposed to reform society and challenge new ideas

Question 19

Divine Rights

Answer 19

It is the theory that the king gets the power from god to rule

Question 20

Natural Rights

Answer 20

These were rights in which the people got power from God to chose who ruled them

Question 21

John Locke

Answer 21

Came up with the idea with divine and natural rights

Question 22

Baron De Montesquieu

Answer 22

A French Thinker that believed the government should be seperated into different branches

Question 23

Seperation of power

Answer 23

The three different branches of power the branches are Judicial Executive and the Legislative branch

Question 24

what is the executive branch

Answer 24

This is the branch that carries out the laws

Question 25

what is the legislative branch

Answer 25

The branch that has the power of legislating and making laws

Question 26

Why was it important to own land in colonial America

Answer 26

It was important to own land because then you could payoff your taxes and it also decided your social class and sometimes could allow to try for a spot in the government

Question 27

What was Salutary Neglect

Answer 27

Salutary Neglect is when the king leaves a colony alone the looniest liked it because they could set up their own government and they became rich England ended it because we were becoming as rich as England