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Question 1

What is an apprentice?

Answer 1

someone who learns a trade by working for someone in that trade for a certain period of time.

Question 2

What else did he do?

Answer 2

business man, community leader, scientist, inventor, and diplomat

Question 3

What was the gentry class?

Answer 3

upper class; wealthy planters, merchants, ministers, royal officials, successful lawyers, goldsmiths

Question 4

How were free African Americans different from enslaved African Americans?

Answer 4

Free were allowed to own property even in the Southern colonies

Question 5

What was the middle passage?

Answer 5

Atlantic voyage to bring slaves to the Americas from Africa

Question 6

What was the triangular trade?

Answer 6

Three way trade between the colonies, Europe, and Africa

Question 7

What is racism?

Answer 7

A belief that one race is superior or inferior to another.

Question 8

What were slave codes?

Answer 8

Strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves.

Question 9

Who was Benjamin Franklin?

Answer 9

A colonial writer

Question 10

What was his most popular work? What did it include?

Answer 10

Poor Richard’s Almanack

pithy sayings

Question 11

Magna Carta

Answer 11

The first document to place restrictions on an English ruler’s power

Question 12

Parliament

Answer 12

A great council to advise the king. A 2 house legislature; House of lords and House of Commons

Question 13

bill of rights

Answer 13

written list of freedoms

Question 14

English bill of rights

Answer 14

” “ signed by King William and Queen Mary

Question 15

John Peter Zenger Trial

Answer 15

Thought he could write about the governer and not get in trouble. He was found not guilty for being libel.

Question 16

Libel

Answer 16

writing something false that is written about a person (must be false!)

Question 17

Glorius Revolution

Answer 17

overthrow of king james II by a union of English parliamentarions

Question 18

Navigation Acts (purpose)

Answer 18

It helped create jobs for English workers

Question 19

Legislature

Answer 19

A group of people who have the power to make laws.

Question 20

The great awakening

Answer 20

First national movements in the colonies. In reinforced democratic ideas.

Question 21

The enlightenment

Answer 21

new intellectual movement; looked for natural laws that governed politics, society, and economics

Question 22

Divine right

Answer 22

God–>ruler–>people

Question 23

Natural rights

Answer 23

God–>people–>ruler

Question 24

John Locke

Answer 24

Said people were born with natural rights (ie; property, life, and liberty

Question 25

Baron de Montesquieu

Answer 25

Favored separation of the powers, French, protected rights of people, and created executive, legislative, judicial

Question 26

Separation of the powers

Answer 26

division of the power of government into separate branches

Question 27

Executive branch

Answer 27

carries out the laws

Question 28

Legislative branch

Answer 28

Passes laws

Question 29

Importance of land ownership

Answer 29

determined social class, voting rights, and political influences

Question 30

What goods were transported in triangular trade

Answer 30

Americas–>Europe: Furs, timber, and ore
Europe–>Africa: weapons
Africa–>Americas: slaves

Question 31

Salutary neglect

Answer 31

Colonists didn’t have to follow English laws, so colonists could be on their own, and the British government became stricter