Chapter 4 Flashcards

1
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Most women in colonial America were expected to marry men

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chosen by their parents

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2
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In colonial families, who usually handled childcare and domestic duties?

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females

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3
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How did the southern gentry usually educate their children?

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hired private tutors

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4
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What was legal under slave codes?

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The killing of an enslaved person by his or her master

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5
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If the English colonies had not had so many plantations, it is likely that

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slavery would not have taken route or survived for as long as it did

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6
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What happened to Puritan towns that not set up the required schools?

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the towns were fined

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7
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In colonial times, how did a young man often learn a trade?

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by becoming an apprentice

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8
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The Zenger case helped establish the right of

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freedom of the press

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9
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Who wrote Poor Richards Almanac?

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Benjamin Franklin

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10
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The legal rights that Englishman had led the colonists to

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expect a voice in their government

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11
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What was the Great Awakening?

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A Christian revival that swept the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s

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12
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Unlike the poor in Europe, lower-class colonists

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could hope to acquire property and move up the social scale

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13
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Who had the rights to vote in the English colonies?

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white men only

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14
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Around what age were colonial children expected to begin working?

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age 7

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15
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Unlike modern public schools, colonial public schools included instruction in

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religion

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16
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What percent of enslaved Africans died or committed suicide during the Middle Passage?

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15 to 20%

17
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What led to the rise of many new churches in the colonies?

A

the Great Awakening

18
Q

Free African-Americans in the colonies were allowed

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to be slaveholders and own property

19
Q

How did some colonists get around the Navigation Acts?

A

by smuggling

20
Q

Many standard contracts of an indentured servant failed to mention the servants wages. Why?

A

indentured servant’s did not get paid any wages

21
Q

How many enslaved Africans were taken to British North America?

A

around 500,000

22
Q

Who’s trial helped to establish freedom of the press?

A

Peter Zenger

23
Q

The Magna Carta was the first document to

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place limits on an English rulers power

24
Q

Who published the Pennsylvania Gazette?

A

Ben Franklin

25
Q

What was Montesquieu’s contribution to ideas about government?

A

The idea of separation of powers

26
Q

What was a factor in the growth of southern slavery?

A

plantation system

27
Q

What is the main reason why colonial authorities wrote slave codes?

A

they feared slave revolts

28
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Every Puritan town with at least 50 families was required

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to start an elementary school

29
Q

What colonies have a ban on slavery until the 1750s?

A

Georgia

30
Q

Who was Phillis Wheatley?

A

a colonial poet

31
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What schools today compared to Puritan grammar schools?

A

high schools

32
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gentry

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the upper class of colonial society

33
Q

indentured servant

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one who agreed to work for a number of years in exchange for ocean passage to the Americans

34
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Jonathan Edwards

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preacher who played a role in the Great Awakening

35
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Anne Bradstreet

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Americas first published poet

36
Q

In 1689, King William and Queen Mary

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signed the English Bill of Rights