Chapter 4 Test Review

Question 1

America’s first published poet

Answer 1

Anne Bradstreet

Question 2

Brutal voyage enslaved people took to America

Answer 2

Middle Passage

Question 3

Preacher who played a role in the Great Awakening

Answer 3

Jonathan Edwards

Question 4

Author of Poor Richard’s Almanack

Answer 4

Benjamin Franklin

Question 5

One who agrees to work for a number of years in exchange for ocean passage to the Americas

Answer 5

Indentured Servants

Question 6

The upper class of colonial society

Answer 6

Gentry

Question 7

His trial established freedom of press

Answer 7

Peter Zenger

Question 8

The legal rights that Englishmen had led the colonists to ________________________

Answer 8

expect a voice in their government.

Question 9

The Magna Carta was the first document to _______.

Answer 9

place limits on an English ruler’s power.

Question 10

Unlike modern public schools, colonial public schools included instruction in _________________.

Answer 10

religion.

Question 11

What does the quote describe? “The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us… The shrieks of the woman, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.” -The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Answer 11

conditions aboard a slave ship headed towards the Americas

Question 12

Enslaved people such as those described in the quote experienced a brutal voyage known as the _______.

Answer 12

Middle Passage

Question 13

Which of the following colonies had a ban on slavery until the 1750s?

Answer 13

Georgia

Question 14

Whose trial helped establish freedom of the press?

Answer 14

Peter Zenger

Question 15

Most women in colonial America were expected to marry men ________________.

Answer 15

chosen by their parents

Question 16

At around what age were colonial children expected to begin working?

Answer 16

7

Question 17

Which of the following led to the rise of many new churches in the colonies?

Answer 17

the Great Awakening

Question 18

Which of the following is the main reason why colonial authorities wrote slave codes?

Answer 18

They feared slave revolts.

Question 19

Who wrote Poor Richard’s Almanack?

Answer 19

Benjamin Franklin

Question 20

Which country was John Locke from?

Answer 20

England

Question 21

Which country is Baron de Montesquieu from?

Answer 21

France

Question 22

Which Enlightenment thinker believed the powers of government should be separated into three branches (executive, legislative, and judicial)?

Answer 22

Montesquieu

Question 23

Which Enlightenment thinker believed that among natural laws were the rights to life, liberty, and property?

Answer 23

Locke

Question 24

Which Enlightenment thinker did not believe that monarchs received their authority from God?

Answer 24

Locke

Question 25

Which Enlightenment thinker’s ideas were responsible for parts of the ideas included in the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 25

Locke

Question 26

Which Enlightenment thinker’s ideas was responsible for making sure no one branch of the government gets too powerful?

Answer 26

Montesquieu

Question 27

In what ways has African culture influenced American culture?

Answer 27

African customs survived because slaves from Africa brought over their customs. They made grass baskets and spoke Gullah, which is a blend of English and several African languages. In less isolated areas, quilts, furniture, folk tales and African music (drums & banjos) were kept.