brain melting flash cards for social studies

Question 1

magna carta

Answer 1

The first document to restrict the English rulers powers. It kept monarchs from levying taxes and it protected the right to own property and to trial by jury.

Question 2

parliament

Answer 2

a house that makes laws and advises the king

Question 3

bill of rights

Answer 3

a document telling of what things everyone can be able to do

Question 4

English bill of rights

Answer 4

1. King can’t tax people without parliament approval
2. keeping an army during peace time is illegal
3. Parliament should be free
4. What happens in Parliament, stays in parliament

Question 5

john peter zenger trial

Answer 5

He thought he had the freedom of the press, so he said bad things about the government, the governor accused him of libel but the governor was false

Question 6

libel

Answer 6

writing that is false and ruins a reputation

Question 7

the glorious revolution

Answer 7

the revolution to overthrow King James the second

Question 8

the navigation acts

Answer 8

1.shipments to colonies go through England
2.imports from colonies came to England on British ships
3.all crops belong to England\
were used to make English jobs

Question 9

gentry

Answer 9

the highest richest level of the social class in the colonies

Question 10

legislature

Answer 10

a house that can create laws

Question 11

apprentice

Answer 11

a person who was taught a skill by an artesian for free and worked for the artesian

Question 12

indentured servant

Answer 12

a person who signed a contract to work for 4-10 years for a person who paid for there passage to the colonies

Question 13

racism

Answer 13

the belief that a certain race is better than another

Question 14

slave codes

Answer 14

a list of rules that restricted the rights and activities of slaves

Question 15

Benjamin franklin

Answer 15

a colonial writer, authored poor Richards almanac

also an inventor, businessman and leader

Question 16

the great awaking

Answer 16

a revival of religion that lead to religious tolerance

Question 17

the enlightenment

Answer 17

a time when people took a more scientific view on life

Question 18

divine right

Answer 18

the power came from god to the ruler and the rights of the people came from the ruler. ruler was “chosen” by god

Question 19

natural rights

Answer 19

the power came from god to the people and the rights came from god. ruler was voted in and could be overthrown

Question 20

john locke

Answer 20

an English man who argued for natural rights and general rights from birth (life, liberty, and property

Question 21

baron de Montesquieu

Answer 21

a French thinker who influenced America with the idea of separation of power

Question 22

separation of powers

Answer 22

the idea that the government should be separated into 3 braches

Question 23

executive branch

Answer 23

the branch the enforces the laws

Question 24

legislative branch

Answer 24

the branch the makes the laws

Question 25

descripe the importance of land ownership in colonial america

Answer 25

it determined your wealth and social class

Question 26

explain the difference between indentured servants and slaves

Answer 26

indentured servents were in a contract, race did not matter, they were paying of a debt. Slaves are property, were African American and were just for more labor

Question 27

(triangular trade route) which goods are transported on each leg?
what is the middle passage.

Answer 27

from America to England crops and resources
from England to Africa, weapons and basic things
from Africa to America, slaves
the middle passage is in between America and Africa

Question 28

explain salutary neglect

Answer 28

salutary neglect is when the mother country ignores its colonies and just collects resources. Colonist liked it since they had a lot of freedom
it ended since the colonies were getting richer than England.