Chapter 4 - Section 1 & 2 Review Flashcards
True or False
For colonists that lived on farms, a large family was considered an advantage
true
True or False
In Puritan New England, single people were given inexpensive lodgings by the government
false
True or False
The toys that colonial children played with were usually brought over on British ships
false
True or False
The gentry of colonial society were few and powerful
true
In 1689, King William and Queen Mary:
a. dissolved Parliament
b. executed King Charles I
c. signed the English Bill of Rights
d. established a two-house legislature
c. signed the English Bill of Rights
Who among the following had the right to vote in the English colonies:
a. white men and women who owned property
b. white men only
c. white men and freed Africans
d. white men and some Native Americans
b. white men only
The Zenger case helped establish the right of:
a. freedom of the press
b. habeas corpus
c. trial by jury
d. freedom of religion
a. freedom of the press
How did some colonists get around the Navigation Acts?
a. by supporting mercantilism
b. by selling to English merchants
c. by smuggling
d. by growing their own tobacco
c. by smuggling
In colonial families, who usually handled childcare and domestic duties?
a. grandparents
b. older children
c. males
d. females
d. females
In colonial times, how did a young man often learn a trade?
a. by becoming enslaved
b. by becoming an apprentice
c. by becoming an indentured servant
d. by buying his own business
b. by becoming an apprentice
Unlike the poor in Europe, lower-class colonists:
a. often lived in luxury
b. had a great deal of leisure time
c. could count on a comfortable retirement
d. could hope to acquire property and move up the social scale
d. could hope to acquire property and move up the social scale
Free African Americans in the colonists were allowed:
a. to vote
b. to sit on juries
c. to be slaveholders and own property
d. to become part of the gentry
c. to be slaveholders and own property
The Magna Carta was the first document to:
a. place limits on the power of the wealthy landowners
b. establish a monarchy
c. place limits on an English ruler’s power
d. give greater power to an English ruler
c. place limits on an English ruler’s power
The legal rights that Englishmen had led the colonists to:
a. support the Navigation Acts
b. give more power to the monarchy
c. expect a voice in their government
d. believe in the separation of powers
c. expect a voice in their government
How did the Magna Carta, the English Parliament, and the English Bill of Rights impact colonial government?
a. They inspired the English colonists to create the Constitution
b. They led the English colonists to demand representative government
c. They encouraged the English colonists to give most people the right to vote
d. They supported the colonists’ demand for self-rule
b. They led the English colonists to demand representative government
“Fixed gowns, spun short thread, pleated and ironed, milked cows, made brooms, scoured pewter….”
Based on her list of chores, Abigal Foote is most likely:
a. a frontier woman
b. an African American slave
c. a young girl
d. an apprentice
c. a young girl
Many standard contracts of an indentured servant failed to mention the servant’s wages. Why?
a. indentured servants paid their employers in order to remain in the colonies
b. indentured servants did not collect any wages until they had worked for four years
c. indentured servants did not get paid any wages
d. none of the above
c. indentured servants did not get paid any wages
The Magna Carta guaranteed the right to trial by ___.
jury
In 1701, Pennsylvania colonists forced Penn and his council to give up their power to ______.
make laws
The Zenger case helped establish freedom of the _____ as a basic liberty.
press
The English Parliament passed a series of Navigation acts to support ____.
mercantilism
This was the upper class of colonial society.
gentry
A person who agreed to work for a number of years in exchange for ocean passage to the Americas
indentured servant
Which groups in colonial America were allowed to vote, and which were not?
Between 50-75% of white males were allowed to vote.
No Women, Native Americans or Africans of any status could vote.
How did the growth of the colonial middle class give hope to the colonial poor?
It encouraged the poor to hope that they could work for themselves into the middle class by acquiring property and moving up the social scale.
This differed from the class system in England and the rest of Europe, where one’s station at birth rigidly determined one’s opportunities in life.
Whose trial helped establish freedom of the press?
a. John Locke
b. Phillis Wheatley
c. Baron de Montesquieu
d. Peter Zenger
d. Peter Zenger
Most women in colonial America were expected to marry men:
a. they fell in love with
b. who were regular church goers
c. who had an honorable occupation
d. chosen by their parents
d. chosen by their parents
Both the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights:
a. guaranteed all men the right to vote
b. stated that physical attacks were considered “cruel and usual punishment’
c. declared that only a free man has the right to protest his arrest
d. gave people accused of a crime the right to trial by jury
d. gave people accused of a crime the right to trial by jury
At around what age were colonial children expected to begin working?
a. 7
b. 15
c. 18
d. 12
a. 7
