lauren k Flashcards
what is salutary neglect?
the colonies were doing well and making mony with the british not having very strict laws but the british wanted to make more monty so they had to start taxing the colonies and making laws stricters. the coloines didnt like this and it lead to the american reveloution.
what colony passed laws to start public education?
massachusetts
how was education paid for?
private and public money
did north or south have more schools? why?
north beacuse people in the south lived far away from eachother amd were busy working.
who was ben franklin ?
ben was the best loved writer in colonial time
what was bj most famus work? what did it include?
poor richards almanack. it was full of pitty sayings that mostly had morals
what other things did bj do?
he was a bisnuess man comunity leader scientest inventor and a diplomant
what moment changed the decline of religion?
the great awakening
explain what happened as the result of the great awakening?
there were more groups of religion so we had to learn how to come together as a community.
what were divine rights?
humans got there rights from the monarch and the monarch got the rights from god.
what were natural rights?
rights you are born with including life liberty and property
would colonists like divine rights or natural rights better? why?
natural rights because it gives them powers not them rights not just the monarch also the rights go through the people not just the king.
where did most people live? why?
on farms because family’s were very self sufficient and close
who could vote?
men who had property
when a women marries what happens to her money and property?
the man she marries gets it.
what were the women role in public life?
they had no public life.
what age did people start to work or get a job?
age 7
what is a apprentice?
someone who learns a trade by working for someone in that trade for a certain period of time.
how was social class determined?
how much land you had. if u were a women you had the same class as your husband or father
explain the triangular trade.
a passage from Africa to the Americas with slaves then to Europe.
what is the middle passage?
the passage from Africa to the Americas with slaves
what is glorious Revolution?
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.
who first brought African Americans to the new world?
Spanish and Portuguese
what is a gentry?
the upper class
legislature
makes the laws for the colony
who was jhon locke?
a english man that argued god given rights cna not be taken from you by the monarch.
montesquie
a frecnch thinker that said the goverments power should be limited
explain the diffrence bwteen slaves and servents
servents-workers for gentry or middle class for low wage slaves-kidnapped workers brought over on cramed ships doing free work
slave codes
strct laws that prohiped the rights for slaves
magna carta
first document in the colonies to restrict rules on the english monarch and power
parlient
a 2 house legislauter made of nobels and commons
