Rylee B Flashcards
Salutary Neglect?
the colonies were doing very well and loved being left alone, but then Britan wanted to start taxing them for their money and the colonies did not like this.
What colony passed laws to start public education?
Massachusetts
How was education funded or paid for?
Public and private money
Did North or the South have more schools? Why?
North had more schools because they were more sucessful and were more worried about education
Who was Ben Franklin?
Ben Franklin was a colonial writer that people loved
What was his most popular work?
His most popular work was Poor Richard’s Almanack
What did it include?
filled with pithy saying that usually had a moral
What else did he do?
He also was a buisnissman, community leader, sientist, inventor, and a diplomat
what moment changed the decline of religion?
the great awakening
what happened in the result of the great awakening?
there were more groups of religion so we had to learn how to come together as a community
divine rights?
humans got there rights from the monarch and the monarch got rights from god
natural rights?
rights you were born with including life liberty and property
would colonists like natural or divine rights better?
natural rights because it gives them more power not them rights not just the monarch also the rights got hrough people not just the king
where did most people live? why?
on farms because familys were very self sufficiant and close
who could vote?
wite men or people who owned land
when a women marries what happens to her money and property?
the husband gets it
what was the womens role in public life?
they had no public life
what age did people star work or get a job
age 7
what is an apprentice?
someone who learns tarde by working for someone in that trade for a certain period of time
how was social class determained?
how much land you had, if you were a women your class was determained by your husband or father
explain the triangular trade?
a passage from africa to the americaswith slaves then to europe
what was the glorious revolution?
the glorious revolution was an event in the history of england 1688. the people of england didn’t like the king, king james II because he would not let them vote or worship God in the 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. Thye 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
magna carta
the first document in the colonies to restrict rule on the engish monarch and power
parliment
a 2 house legislater ( a group of people who make laws) made of nobles and commons
a bill of rights
a written list of freedom that the government promises to protect
the english bill of rights
the bill of rights signed in england by king william and queen mary
libel
the publishing of the statments that damage a persons repuation
