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How are the Magna Carta in the English Bill of Rights similar

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Both gave people accused of a crime the right to trial by jury

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What document was the first place limits on English rulers power

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Magna Carta

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How did the Magna Carta the English parliament and the English Bill of Rights impact colonial government

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Let the colonists to demand a representative Government

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The right to vote in the English colonies

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White men who owned property

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What American liberty was established by the trial of John Peter Zenget

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Freedom of the press

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How did mercantilism contribute to European colonisation of North America

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Colonies provided cheaper raw materials for European nations

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What is an import

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Goodbye into the country

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Define the triangular trade

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Three-way corneal trade between the colonies the island of Caribbean and Africa

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Explain why the colonists dislike the navigation act

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Cut Colonial merchants off the foreign market

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Why did merchants In the American colonies began smuggling goods

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Colonists could sometimes get better prices from customers and other countries

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What product’s were traded for slaves in the West Indies and take into the American colonies

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Molasses and sugar

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Many standard contracts and in indentured servants fail to mention the service wages why

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They didn’t get paid

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What was the middle passage

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Voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic

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How many enslaved Africans were taken to British North America

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50,000

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What percentage of in slave Africans died or committed suicide during the middle passage

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15 to 20%

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Why did slavery flourish in the south

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Need for a permanent labour And plantation Farming

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What were some features of the slave code and what was the purpose

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Could not own a weapon and travel at night and gather in large groups and learn to read write and feared slaves would rebel

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In colonial times who usually handled childcare and domestic duties

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Women

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Around what age were colonial children expected to begin working

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Seven

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In colonial times how did a young man often learn a trade

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Became a apprentice

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How are lower class colonists unlike the poor in Europe

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Lower class colonists could help to acquire property and moveup in social rank

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What right did free African-Americans have

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To be slaveholders and Own property

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What was required of a puritan town with at least 50 families

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To start a elementary school

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What school is today would compare to Puritan grammar schools

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High school

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How did the southern gentry usually educate the children

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Hired a private tutor

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Differentiate between Colonial public schools and modern public school

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Colonial schools included instruction in religion

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What were Dame schools

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School to teach boys and girls how to read and write

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Why were the earliest American colleges founded

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To educate mean to be a minister

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Describe the earliest crimes of colonial literature

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Histories

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Give an example of colonial literature that was written as a part of the great awakening hint Jonathan Edwards famous Sermob

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Sinners in the hand of an angry God

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Who was Philis Wheatley

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Colonial poet

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Who Published the Pennsylvania gazette and Poor Richard Almanack

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Benjamin Franklin

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What was the great awakening

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A Christian revival that swept the colonies in 1737 1740s

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How did the great awakening reinforced democratic ideas

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People that they could self worship their God then they can self-government themselves

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What was the impact of the great awakening

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It led to formation of new churches and lead to move religious toleration and united the coroners and revive for popular places to talk about political and social issues and universities founded and first national movement in the colony and change Authority and questioned tradition and reinforced democratic ideas

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Who were key players that contributed significant ideas to the Enlightenment

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John Locke and Montesquieu

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According to John Locke what were natural rights

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Late Liberty and property they cannot be taken away

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What was Montesquieus contribution to ideas about government

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The idea of separation of powers

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How did the French generally view the settlement in North America

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By establishing for a trading post

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How did puritans and Pilgrims views of the angelican church differ

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Puritans wanted to purify it and Quakers wanted to break off completely from it

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What cash crop southern farmers introduce

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Indigo

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How were puritans different from Quakers

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Quakers believe that people with people and puritans didn’t

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Who founded some of the colonies near the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Puritan dissenters

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Why did Roger Williams and Thomas had to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony define and settlement

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They both believed that the government needed to be separated from religion neither liked the fact that tHe government controlled the peoples religion choices

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What is a primary source

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They are most important and present during the period

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Explain how enlightenment thinkers in England and France influenced the formation of the United States government

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Do you like me ideas of English philosopher John Locke in French philosopher baron de Montesquieu greatly influenced the formation of the US for example John last three that people are natural and animal rights life with him he are you that there was a social contract between people in government

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