unit 2

Question 0

what is the definition of mercantilism?

Answer 0

an economic system in which the colonies exist for the benefit of the mother country

Question 1

what is the definition of colony?

Answer 1

a settlement ruled by a distant parent country

Question 2

no _________ without consent of parliament

Answer 2

taxation

Question 3

no cruel or unjust

Answer 3

punishment

Question 4

right to _________ (ask for change)

Answer 4

petition

Question 5

right to__________(own a gun)

Answer 5

bear arms

Question 6

right to____________(a group of peers hears your case and determines your guilt or innocence)

Answer 6

trial by jury

Question 7

who was the surveyor?

Answer 7

George Washington

Question 8

what did France lose as a result of the French and Indian war?

Answer 8

Canada and most of its lands east of the Mississippi River

Question 9

what did Britain get from Spain?

Answer 9

Florida

Question 10

what did Spain get?

Answer 10

French lands west of the Mississippi River, Louisiana territory, some of New Orleans

Question 11

what was the name of the land that England and France fought over?

Answer 11

the Ohio river valley

Question 12

why did the French want the land?

Answer 12

fur trapping

Question 13

why did the English want the land?

Answer 13

farming

Question 14

why did most of the Indians side with the French?

Answer 14

they didn’t want to tear down the trees and destroy the land

Question 15

who was Robert dinwiddie

Answer 15

the governor of Virginia who told Washington to go tell the French to get out

Question 16

who was Edward Braddock?

Answer 16

the commander in chief of the British forces in America who tried to drive the French troops out of the Ohio river valley

Question 17

who was William Pitt?

Answer 17

the prime minister of British who helped the British win the war

Question 18

what do fort Duquesne and fort Pitt have in common?

Answer 18

they are the same place

Question 19

where was the decisive battle of the war fought?

Answer 19

Quebec

Question 20

who won the battle that took place in Quebec?

Answer 20

the British

Question 21

who won the French and Indian war?

Answer 21

the British

Question 22

great charter on England which established the principle of limited government

Answer 22

Magna Carta

Question 23

a law making body of people

Answer 23

legislature

Question 24

England’s legislature

Answer 24

parliament

Question 25

to choose (usually by a single person)

Answer 25

appoint

Question 26

to vote for (usually by many people)

Answer 26

elect

Question 27

colonies in which the settlers were given a grant of rights and privileges to rule themselves

Answer 27

charter colonies

Question 28

colonies ruled by proprietors to whom British granted land

Answer 28

proprietary colonies

Question 29

colonies directly ruled by England’s monarch (king or queen)

Answer 29

royal colonies

Question 30

the colonial upper house of legislature

Answer 30

council

Question 31

colonial lower house of legislature

Answer 31

assembly

Question 32

trading illegally with other nations

Answer 32

smuggling

Question 33

a document signed by king William and queen Mary in 1689 established rights for English citizens

Answer 33

the English bill of rights

Question 34

laws directing the trade between England and the colonies which gave total control to England and its rulers

Answer 34

navigation acts