JOEL M

Question 1

Who was Baron de Montesquieu

Answer 1

The man who suggested the separation of powers

Question 2

why was the separation of powers a good thing?

Answer 2

Because thing king can be too powerful. the power go to his head. gets an evil laugh and try to take over the world

Question 3

What is the legislative branch

Answer 3

The branch that makes laws

Question 4

what is the executive branch

Answer 4

the branch that executes the law

Question 5

Who was john locke?

Answer 5

he was the man who had the idea of natural rights

Question 6

what r Natural righrs

Answer 6

the rights of life liberty and property. and the power to overthrow the king.

Question 7

what r Divine rights

Answer 7

Rights that came from god that were given to the king. He had all the power

Question 8

what is racism

Answer 8

skin color discrimination

Question 9

the magna carta

Answer 9

intended to limit the powers of the monarch and proclaimed certain liberties for “freemen”.

Question 10

what is the parliament

Answer 10

The Parliament was a governing body in England

Question 11

what is the bill of rights

Answer 11

the Bill of Rights is the name given to the first ten amendments to the US Constitution.

Question 12

what is the english bill of rights

Answer 12

The English Bill of Rights are an Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown.

Question 13

what did the john peter zenger rial do

Answer 13

The Zenger case helped establish the American commitment to freedom of the press.

Question 14

what is libel

Answer 14

making a false statement of fact that injures someone’s reputation.

Question 15

The glorious revolution

Answer 15

The Glorious Revolution was an event in the history of England in 1688. The people of England didn’t like the king, King James II because he wouldn’t let them vote or worship God in the way they wanted to. They invited William III of Orange-Nassau to take over as king. William was King James II’s nephew and Mary’s first cousin. He came to England with his wife Queen Mary, the daughter of King James II. They let the old king escape, so he moved to France out of fear.

Question 16

what is the navigation acts?

Answer 16

These acts were a series of twenty-nine laws passed to control colonial trade and shipping.

Question 17

gentry

Answer 17

A member of a house in the royal court.

Question 18

what is a legislature

Answer 18

sombody that makes laws

Question 19

what is an apprentice

Answer 19

An apprentice is essentially the student/helper of a master craftsman. For example, in the old days, a 12 year-old boy who wanted to be a blacksmith would seek to be a blacksmith’s apprentice, so he can learn all about the craft and business of a blacksmith. The blacksmith teaches the apprentice all he knows, and in return the apprentice assists the blacksmith and does many of the more menial, trivial work that the blacksmith is too busy to do.

Question 20

what is an indentured servant

Answer 20

An indentured servant is one whose service is formally contracted

Question 21

slave codes

Answer 21

Laws for the slaves to make resistance hard for them.

Question 22

benjamin franklin

Answer 22

He was a leading author and printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
Benjamin Franklin was a noble man. He invented a lot of things and he was very smart. Benjamin Franklin also signed the declaration of independence. He was one of the founding fathers of america.

Question 23

what was the great awakening

Answer 23

The Great Awakening was primarily a period of economic prosperity brought about by colonial trade.

Question 24

what was the enlightenment

Answer 24

a philosophic movement of the 18th century marked by a rejection of traditional social, religious, and political ideas and an emphasis on rationalism.