Chapter 4 Flashcards
Most women in colonial America were expected to marry men
chosen by their parents
In colonial families, who usually handled childcare and domestic duties?
females
How did the southern gentry usually educate their children?
hired private tutors
What was legal under slave codes?
The killing of an enslaved person by his or her master
If the English colonies had not had so many plantations, it is likely that
slavery would not have taken route or survived for as long as it did
What happened to Puritan towns that not set up the required schools?
the towns were fined
In colonial times, how did a young man often learn a trade?
by becoming an apprentice
The Zenger case helped establish the right of
freedom of the press
Who wrote Poor Richards Almanac?
Benjamin Franklin
The legal rights that Englishman had led the colonists to
expect a voice in their government
What was the Great Awakening?
A Christian revival that swept the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s
Unlike the poor in Europe, lower-class colonists
could hope to acquire property and move up the social scale
Who had the rights to vote in the English colonies?
white men only
Around what age were colonial children expected to begin working?
age 7
Unlike modern public schools, colonial public schools included instruction in
religion
What percent of enslaved Africans died or committed suicide during the Middle Passage?
15 to 20%
What led to the rise of many new churches in the colonies?
the Great Awakening
Free African-Americans in the colonies were allowed
to be slaveholders and own property
How did some colonists get around the Navigation Acts?
by smuggling
Many standard contracts of an indentured servant failed to mention the servants wages. Why?
indentured servant’s did not get paid any wages
How many enslaved Africans were taken to British North America?
around 500,000
Who’s trial helped to establish freedom of the press?
Peter Zenger
The Magna Carta was the first document to
place limits on an English rulers power
Who published the Pennsylvania Gazette?
Ben Franklin
What was Montesquieu’s contribution to ideas about government?
The idea of separation of powers
What was a factor in the growth of southern slavery?
plantation system
What is the main reason why colonial authorities wrote slave codes?
they feared slave revolts
Every Puritan town with at least 50 families was required
to start an elementary school
What colonies have a ban on slavery until the 1750s?
Georgia
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
a colonial poet
What schools today compared to Puritan grammar schools?
high schools
gentry
the upper class of colonial society
indentured servant
one who agreed to work for a number of years in exchange for ocean passage to the Americans
Jonathan Edwards
preacher who played a role in the Great Awakening
Anne Bradstreet
Americas first published poet
In 1689, King William and Queen Mary
signed the English Bill of Rights
