Annika A.

Question 1

Magna Carta

Answer 1

A document signed in 1215 that King John was forced to sign. It limited the English rulers power.

Question 2

Parliment

Answer 2

Formed under the Magna Carta, the Parliment was a group of people who have the power to make laws.

Question 3

A Bill of Rights

Answer 3

List from a goverment that states freedoms and promises.

Question 4

The English Bill of Rights

Answer 4

The bill that King William and Queen Mary were forced to sign. Four of the rights; 1. King can not tax people without having a parliment by law, 2. Keeping an army in the kingdom in times of peace is against the law without okay from the parliment, 3. Parliment should be free, 4. Whatever you say in parliment, stays in parliment.

Question 5

John Peter Zenger Trial

Answer 5

Peter Zenger wrote nasty things about the goverment and was put on trial. He was found not guilty because whta he wrote was true.

Question 6

Libel

Answer 6

Writing something that is false about another that ruins their reputation.

Question 7

Gentry

Answer 7

The upper class of colonial society.

Question 8

Legislature

Answer 8

A group of people who come together to make laws. Fist one: The House of Burgess in Jamestown; 1619.

Question 9

Apprentice

Answer 9

Someone who learns a trade by working for someone in that trade for a certain amount of time.

Question 10

Indentured Servant

Answer 10

Someone who signs a contract to work from 4 to 10 in the colonies for anyone who would pay for his or her ocean passage to the Americas.

Question 11

Racism

Answer 11

The belief that one race is superior or inferior to another.

Question 12

Slave Codes

Answer 12

Strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves.

Question 13

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 13

A colonial writer who started the the newspaper the Pennsylvania Gazette. Wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac; very popular book in the colonies. He was also a businessman, community leader, scientist, inventor, and diplomat.

Question 14

The Great Awakening

Answer 14

An emotion packed Christian movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730’s and 1740’s that led to the rise of many new churches.

Question 15

The Enlightenment

Answer 15

The belief that all problems could be solved by human reasoning.

Question 16

Divine Rights

Answer 16

The belief that monarchs get their authority to rule directly from God.

Question 17

Natural Rights

Answer 17

The rights that belong to every human being from birth.

Question 18

John Locke

Answer 18

An English thinker that thought people were born with three rights; life, liberty, and property. They can not be taken away from you.

Question 19

Baron de Montesquieu

Answer 19

A French thinker who thought the government should have a separation of powers or division of the power of government into separate branches to make sure no individual becomes corrupt.

Question 20

Separation of Powers

Answer 20

The division of the power of government into separate branches to make sure no individual becomes to corrupt.

Question 21

Executive Branch

Answer 21

A branch of government that enforces the laws.

Question 22

Legislative Branch

Answer 22

A branch of government that makes the laws.

Question 23

Describe the importance of land ownership in colonial America

Answer 23

If you owned land in colonial times it meant you a lot of money, it was a social status, it gave you voting rights, and political influence.

Question 24

Explain the difference between and indentured servant and a slave

Answer 24

Indentures servants were only temporary. Slaves you could keep until you set them free.

Question 25

The Triangular Trade

Answer 25

A three way trade between the Americas, Europe, and Africa. The Americas sent resources such as furs and woods to Europe. In Europe, the ship captains collected fire arms. In Africa, the ship captains traded firearms for hostages of war. When the Africans were brought back to the Americas, they were sold and the cycle went on.

Question 26

The Middle Passage

Answer 26

A brutal passage the slaves had to take from Africa to America.

Question 27

Salutary Neglect

Answer 27

A system in which a mother country ignores its colonies in hopes they would flourish. The colonist liked this system because they could do whatever they wanted. Europe realized how well they were doing and went to the Americas and started taxing them ending the system.

Question 28

The Glorious Revolution

Answer 28

King James the 2nd is removed from the throne and his daughter, Queen Mary, and her husband, King William, are put on the throne.

Question 29

Navigation Acts

Answer 29

To regulate trade, England made the Navigation Acts. Some of them were; 1. Shipment to the colonizes had to go through England first, 2. any imports from England to the colonies had to be on British ships, 3. The colonies could only sell products like sugar and tobacco to England. The colonists didn’t like this because they couldn’t make money. They got around them by smuggling resources to other countries.