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Question 1

What is the Magna Carta?

Answer 1

It was the first document to place restrictions on an English ruler’s power.

Question 2

What is the Pariament?

Answer 2

A group of people that makes laws, approves new taxes; and advises the King.

Question 3

What is the Bill of Rights?

Answer 3

A document listing freedoms protected by the government.

Question 4

What are the elements of the “English” Bill of Rights?

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

What is significant about the John Peter Zenger trial?

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

What is Libel?

Answer 6

False statments that are written to ruin a person reputation.

Question 7

What is the Glorious Revolution?

Answer 7

NOT SURE!!!!!!!!

Question 8

What was the purpose of the Navigations Acts?

Answer 8

To make the colonists ONLY sell to England.

Question 9

What was the gentry class?

Answer 9

The upper class of colonial society.

Question 10

What was an apprentice?

Answer 10

When your family makes you go learn a skill in a legal contract.

Question 11

What was an indentured servant?

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

What is racism?

Answer 12

The belief that one race is superior to the other.

Question 13

What were the slave codes?

Answer 13

Strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves.

Question 14

Who was Benjamin Franklin?

Answer 14

A writer that wrote Poor Richard’s Almanack.

Question 15

What was the Great Awakening?

Answer 15

A reaction against what some Christians saw as a decline of religious zeal in the colonies.

Question 16

What was the Enlightenment?

Answer 16

A new intellectual movement where thinkers looked for “natural laws” that governed politics, society, and economics.

Question 17

What were Divine Rights?

Answer 17

Rights where all power was given to the king.

Question 18

What were Natural Rights?

Answer 18

Rights where all power was given to the people.

Question 19

Who was John Locke?

Answer 19

An Englishman who had key ideas in the Enlightenment.

Question 20

Who was Baron do Motesquieu?

Answer 20

A French writer who influenced American ideas.

Question 21

What was the Separation of the Powers?

Answer 21

The division of the power of the government into separate branches.

Question 22

What is the Executive Branches job?

Answer 22

Where the laws are carried out.

Question 23

What is the Legislative Branches job?

Answer 23

Where the laws were made.

Question 24

Describe the importance of land ownership in colonial America.

Answer 24

You could hold office and vote.

Question 25

Explain the difference between indentured servants and the slaves.

Answer 25

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.

Question 26

What was the Legislature?

Answer 26

A group of people that has the power to make laws.

Question 27

What is the route of the Triangular Trade Route?

Answer 27

From the Americas to Europe to Africa back to America.

Question 28

What things were brought from the Americas to Europe?

Answer 28

Resources, wood, sugar, and metals.

Question 29

What was brought from Europe to Africa?

Answer 29

Finished products, guns, baskets, metal and pots and pans.

Question 30

What was brought from Africa to the Americas?

Answer 30

Human Cargo (slaves)

Question 31

Where was the Middle Passage?

Answer 31

From Africa to the Americas.

Question 32

What was Salutary Neglect?

Answer 32

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.