Chapter 4 Test (Stump)

Question 1

In 1215, English nobles forced King John to sign what document?

Answer 1

Manga Carta

Question 2

What is a legislature?

Answer 2

Law-making Body

Question 3

What is a written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect.?

Answer 3

English Bill of Rights

Question 4

Who had the right to vote in the English colonies in 1760?

Answer 4

50 to 70 percent of white men 21 and older

Question 5

What 3 things did the Navigation Acts force the colonist to do.

Answer 5

1) Shipment from Europe to English had to go through England first.
2) Any imports to England from the colonies had to come in ships built and owned by British subjects.
3) The colonies could sell key products such as tobacco and sugar only to England.

Question 6

What is the idea of the “extended family?”

Answer 6

Large families of grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and others was an advantage.

Question 7

What were the general roles of most men, women, and children durning colonial America?

Answer 7

Men- if not farmer, carpenters, coopers, butchers, wheel wrights, other trades.
Women- cook, do laundry, tend animals, sew clothes, garden, making cloths, and taking care of children.
Children- play with toy often made of corn, by 7 they were doing chores and learning from parents.

Question 8

What is someone who learns a trade by working by working for someone in that trade for a certain period of time?

Answer 8

An Apprentice

Question 9

What is Gentry?

Answer 9

Few in number, but most powerful.
(Wealthy planter, merchants, ministers, royal offers, lawyers, prosperous artisans.

Question 10

What 5 European nations were heavily involved in the African slave trade on America between the 1500s and the 1800s?

Answer 10

Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, British.

Question 11

What name was given to the path that many slaves had to take from Africa to America?

Answer 11

Middle Passage

Question 12

What percentage of African slaves came to British America directly from Africa?

Answer 12

500,000 or 4.5% ➡️ 5%

Question 13

What 3 locations made up the “Triangular trade?”

Answer 13

Colonies
Caribbean
Africa

Question 14

What is the belief that one race is superior and inferior to another race?

Answer 14

Racism

Question 15

What name was given to strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves? Give three common examples.

Answer 15

Slave codes
1. Can’t meet in large groups or own weapons. 2. Can’t leave plantation without permission. 3. Can’t learn to read or write.

Question 16

What religious group started the first public schools in America? What is a public school?

Answer 16

Puritans
Schools that is tax payer supported.

Question 17

What subjects did most of these public schools mainly teaching in colonial times?

Answer 17

Reading, writing, math(arithmetic)

Question 18

Who was the most famous American writer during colonial times?

Answer 18

Ben Franklin.

Question 19

What religious movement swept across the colonies during the 1730s and 1740s?

Answer 19

The Great Awakening.

Question 20

What era developed in the mid-1700s that looks for “natural laws” That governed politics society in economics.

Answer 20

The Enlightenment

Question 21

How are “natural rights” different than “divine rights?”

Answer 21

Natural rights-(God given) From the people, from God to the people, people can change the government.
Divine rights- (king, queen) from God to the ruler, from the ruler, people must obey the ruler

Question 22

What is a division of the power in government into separate branches?

Answer 22

Separation of powers