Chapter 5 SS Test

Question 1

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 1

-An enlightenment thinker of the colonies
-Ran away from Boston to Philadelphia
-Had many inventions including the lightning rod, bifocals, and the first library

Question 2

The Great Awakening
and the Leaders

Answer 2

-Leaders: Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield
-Messages: Help others and make the world a better place

Question 3

Enlightenment

Answer 3

-Philosophy changed ideas about government in the colonies.
-Ideas: Reason and science can improve society

Question 4

John Locke

Answer 4

Said people have natural rights that governments must protect

Question 5

Charles Montesquieu

Answer 5

Opposed monarchy as a form of government, and favored separating power into three branches.

Question 6

Social Classes + Property

Answer 6

-If you owned property, you could vote
-Most people were in the middle class

Question 7

Women Ranks

Answer 7

-An unmarried woman would have the social rank of her father
-A married woman would then have her husband’s social rank

Question 8

Education

Answer 8

-Valued in all 13 colonies
-The importance was that all children could read the bible
-Apprenticeships were made so that boys would learn to trade
-People also read more, so there were more books, newspapers, poetry, and histories.

Question 9

Magna Carta

Answer 9

-The first step to limiting the English king’s power
-The people of the colonies and England wanted to reform his rule so they made the king sign the document, agreeing that the would do those things listed and be more lenient

Question 10

Dominion of New England

Answer 10

The four New England colonies were turned into one big royal colony

Question 11

Edmund Andros

Answer 11

-A royal governor that angered colonists
-He ended all representative assemblies

Question 12

The Glorious Revolution

Answer 12

-This meant new rights and rulers but no need for blood in the process.
-Why? Because William and Mary became King and Queen
-The New England colonists got rid of Andros and could once again hold assemblies

Question 13

The English Bill of Rights

Answer 13

-Gave English citizens the right to free elections, and the right to complain

Question 14

Effect of the Glorious Revolution

Answer 14

New England Colonists got rid of Andros and could once again hold assemblies.

Question 15

The Representative Government in the Colonies grew because of…

Answer 15

The Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution, and the English Bill Rights

Question 16

Salutary Neglect

Answer 16

The English policy that the king could not interfere in the colonies.

Question 17

Half King

Answer 17

He was supposed to help George Washington, but killed a French Ambassador as revenge for killing his father.

Question 18

John Peter Zenger’s Trial

Answer 18

-A reporter criticized the New York governor and was put in jail, but said truth is not a crime.
-It established Freedom of the Press

Question 19

What competition was there between the French and the British at the ORV?

Answer 19

-They both wanted land, beaver furs, and to build forts on that land
-Native Americans fought on both sides

Question 20

George Washington

Answer 20

He was sent by the Virginia Governor to tell the French they had to leave British territory.

Question 21

The Seven Years War

Answer 21

-Name for the war in Europe.
-Didn’t exactly last for seven years.

Question 22

Albany Plan of Union

Answer 22

-First formal proposal to unite the thirteen colonies for any reason.
(Ben Franklin’s idea)

Question 23

The Colonies’ response to Albany Plan of Union…

Answer 23

The colonies didn’t want to give up local power.

Question 24

Fort Duquesne

Answer 24

-French Fort the British wanted to capture

Question 25

General Braddock

Answer 25

-British General in America
-The British lose The Battle of Quebec and Braddock dies before they reach the fort

Question 26

Battle of Quebec

Answer 26

-Turning point in the War

Question 27

Outcome of the Battle of Quebec

Answer 27

The British win and cut off French supplies to their forts

Question 28

Treaty of Paris

Answer 28

-Officially ended the war
-Terms: France lost all power in North America, and the British officially owned the Ohio River Valley

Question 29

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Answer 29

When British colonists moved onto Native lands, the tribes fought back but lost.

Question 30

Effects of the French + Indian War

Answer 30

1. Control of Canada from France to England
2. English colonists expected to move onto land won in the war
3. England banned colonial expansion west off of the Appalachians

Question 31

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 31

-England’s response to Pontiac’s rebellion

Question 32

Colonists’ Reaction to the Proclamation of 1763

Answer 32

Colonists thought they had earned the right to settle and expand