Q6 TEXTBOOK Flashcards
____ Became the first Catholic monarch in England over 100 years
King James II
Who was a former slave who became a major Virginia landowner?
Anthony Johnson
Who rejected the monarchy’s “divine” right to govern with absolute power?
John Locke
Who was the governor of the Dominion of New England?
Edmund Andros
What did the case of John Peter Zenger in 1735 involve?
Freedom of the press
True or False: Marcantilism involved colonies supplying raw materials to the mother country
True
What was the most important crop in the Virginia colony?
Tobacco
What did the Fundamental Consititutions of Carolina establish?
A formal nobility and provided religious toleration
A large number of South Carolina’s original settlers were British Planeters from where?
Barbados
What was the most profitable slave holding area of the British Empire by 1675?
West Indies
How did African American slaves show resistance to the system?
By sabotaging crops
In New York in 1712
Through the Stono Uprising
Which slaves usually lived and worked in cities and towns?
Slaves that lived in northern colonies
The events surrounding a suspected slave revolt in New York City in 1741 offer parallels to?
The Salem witch craze
True or False: In the Dominion of New England, taxes were levied without the consent of the assembly
True
The Navigation Act of 1660 specified “enumerated” goods that?
Could only be shipped to England or it’s colonies
Who revoked the royal charter for the colony of Massachusetts?
King Charles II
What was the largest city in the colonies at the end of the colonial period?
Philadelphia
What did John Peter Zenger’s trial in 1735 establish?
That truth is a defense in libel cases
By the early eighteenth century the English colonies in North America were?
The most populous and prosperous on the continent
What was the chief staple crop of colonial South Carolina?
Rice
What colony was established as a philanthropic venture to aid the poor of Britain?
Georgia
True or False: As a result of the Glorious Revolution England abolished the monarchy and became a republic
False
The Navigation Act of 1660 specified “enumerated” goods that:
Could only be shipped to England or it’s colonies