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History Chapter 4.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the Bill of Rights? | A written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect. |
| What is a legislature? | A group of people who have the power to make laws. |
| What is a Habeas Corpus | The principle that a person cannot be held in proison withough being charged with a specific crime. |
| What is Freedom of the Press? | The right of journalists to publish the truth without restriction or penalty. |
| What is Libel? | The publishing of statements that damage a person's reputation. |
| What is an Extended Family? | A family that includes, in addition to the parents and their children, other members such as grandparents, uncles, and cousins. |
| What is an Apprentice? | Someone who learns to trade by working for someone in that trade for a certain amount of time. |
| What was a Gentry? | The Upper class of the Colonial Society. |
| What was the Middle Class? | Maed up of small planters, independent farmers, and artisans. |
| What whas an Indentured Servant | They signed a contrace to work from 4 to 10 years in the colonies for anyone who would pay his or her ocean passage to the Americas. |
| What was the Triangular Trade? | A three-way trade between the colonies, the islands of the Carribean and Africa. |
| What was Racism? | The belief that one race is superior or inferior to another. |
| What were Slave Codes? | Strict laws that restricted the rights of activities of slaves. |
| What was a Public School? | A school supported by taxes. |
| What were Dame Schools? | Schools that women opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write. |
| What were Natural Rights? | Rights that belong to every human being from birth. |
| What were Divine Rights? | The belief that monarchs get their authority to rule directly from God. |
| What were the Seperation of Powers? | Division of the power of government into seperate branches. |
| What was the time period known as when King James II was removed from the throne? | The Glorious Revolution. |
| What is it when "No Monarch can raise taxes without the consent of Parliament"? | Power of the Purse |
| What were the Navigation Acts? | Laws that stated the following: Shipments from Europe to English colonies had to go through England first.Any imports to England from the colonies had to come in ships built and owned by British subjects. |
| By 1670 every colony had some kind of this.. | Legislature |
| In 1688 what did Parliament do for the first time? | Removed King James II from the throne. |
| Who Signed The English Bill Of Rights Into Effect? | King William & Queen Mary |
| Who published an article slamming the King of England therefore leading to the important court case about Freedom of the Press? | John Peter Zenger |
| Most farms were self-sufficient, what does this mean? | they had to be able to live on their own |
| During the colonial days why did people get married? | Get more land. Women had to marry the man their parents chose. |
| What was the upper class called? | Gentry |
| How could people move up in the colonial society? | By owning land |
| Who was easier to live in the towns rather than on farms? | Single People |
| When did slavery start in the Americas? | Colonial Days |
| What three areas were connected with the triangular trade? | Africa, Europe, and America |
| What was the leg of the Triangular trade called between Africa and the America's? | Middle Passage |
| What did Africans want for the slaves? | Blue & Red cloth & liquor |
| What is a public school supported by? | Taxes |
| Puritan law required every town with at least 50 families to do what? | Start an elementary school. |
| What outlawed teaching in the south? | Slave codes |
| What two languages did students learn during colonial times? | Greek and Latin |
| What was the first college to open? | Harvard |
| What was the second college founded in the New World? | College of William and Mary |
| What were the first colleges founded for? | To educate men for the ministry. |
| King cannot do whatever he wants. | Limited Government |
| You cannot be deprived of your life, liberty, or property without due process | Due Process |
| King cannot be the jury or chose the jury. | Judgement by your peers |
| Jury must consist of your social equals. | Judgement by your peers |
| King cannot raise taxes without the advise and consent of the Barons. | Power of the Purse |
| King cannot seize a man's property. | Private Property |
| He argued people formed government to protect their individual freedoms | John Locke |
| He believen since the government is created to protext individual rights, if the monarch violates those rights, the people have the right to overthrow the monarch. | John Locke |
| She was an enslaved African that had her first poem published when she was 14. | Phyllis Wheatley |
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