RachaelC Flashcards
Learn/Study for the chapter 4 test.
What is the Magna Carta?
It was the first document to place restrictions on an English ruler’s power.
What is the Pariament?
A group of people that makes laws, approves new taxes; and advises the King.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A document listing freedoms protected by the government.
What are the elements of the “English” Bill of Rights?
1) - States that the monarch can’t raise taxes without the Pariament approval.
2) - Can’t have an Army available in a time of peace without Parliament approval.
3) - Members of Parliament have to own land and be free.
4) - What happens in Parliament stays in Parliament.
What is significant about the John Peter Zenger trial?
John wrote bad things about the governer. He was put on trial. During this time he was charged with libel. His lawyers convinved the jurors that the statements were factual; and the jurors agreed.
What is Libel?
False statments that are written to ruin a person reputation.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
NOT SURE!!!!!!!!
What was the purpose of the Navigations Acts?
To make the colonists ONLY sell to England.
What was the gentry class?
The upper class of colonial society.
What was an apprentice?
When your family makes you go learn a skill in a legal contract.
What was an indentured servant?
Someone who signed a contract to work from 4-10 years in the colonies for anyone who paid for his or her ocean passage to the Americas.
What is racism?
The belief that one race is superior to the other.
What were the slave codes?
Strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
A writer that wrote Poor Richard’s Almanack.
What was the Great Awakening?
A reaction against what some Christians saw as a decline of religious zeal in the colonies.
What was the Enlightenment?
A new intellectual movement where thinkers looked for “natural laws” that governed politics, society, and economics.
What were Divine Rights?
Rights where all power was given to the king.
What were Natural Rights?
Rights where all power was given to the people.
Who was John Locke?
An Englishman who had key ideas in the Enlightenment.
Who was Baron do Motesquieu?
A French writer who influenced American ideas.
What was the Separation of the Powers?
The division of the power of the government into separate branches.
What is the Executive Branches job?
Where the laws are carried out.
What is the Legislative Branches job?
Where the laws were made.
Describe the importance of land ownership in colonial America.
You could hold office and vote.
Explain the difference between indentured servants and the slaves.
Indentured servants were working towards being free and had a choice to be one, while slaves were forced to do everything and were usually kept for life.
What was the Legislature?
A group of people that has the power to make laws.
What is the route of the Triangular Trade Route?
From the Americas to Europe to Africa back to America.
What things were brought from the Americas to Europe?
Resources, wood, sugar, and metals.
What was brought from Europe to Africa?
Finished products, guns, baskets, metal and pots and pans.
What was brought from Africa to the Americas?
Human Cargo (slaves)
Where was the Middle Passage?
From Africa to the Americas.
What was Salutary Neglect?
When the British and England colonies ignored the colonies and didn’t enforce their laws. Colonists were basically free. When they got more rich then the people back in Europe, the king got mad so they colonists got heavily taxed. That is how it ended.
