Chapter 4

Question 1

Part of the 3 branches of government, which has the powers to make laws

Answer 1

legislative

Question 2

Is a written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect

Answer 2

bill of rights

Question 3

Person cannot be held in prison without specific crime

Answer 3

Habeus corpus

Question 4

Allowed the press to publish the truth

Answer 4

Freedom of the press

Question 5

Publishing statements that damage a person’s reputation (John Peter Zenger case)

Answer 5

Libel

Question 6

The law making body of England

Answer 6

Parliament

Question 7

Is an economic theory in which a nations power on it’s wealth

Answer 7

Mercantilism

Question 8

Goods that are brought into a country

Answer 8

Imports

Question 9

Goods that are sent out of that country

Answer 9

Exports

Question 10

Occurred when William and Mary peacefully took the throne

Answer 10

Glorious Revolution

Question 11

William and Mary ended to sign this; this would promise that the government to protect the people in England; no raising taxes; entitled to the lawyer

Answer 11

English Bill of right

Question 12

Parliament makes the decisions and royalty are merely figureheads

Answer 12

Constitutional Monarchy

Question 13

A family that includes, in addition with their grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins

Answer 13

Extended family

Question 14

Someone who learns a trade working for someone in that trade for a certain period of time, they loved at home with the master craftsmen

Answer 14

Apprentice

Question 15

Upper class in the colonies

Answer 15

Gentry

Question 16

It’s made up of small planters, independent farmers and artisans

Answer 16

Middle Class

Question 17

Signed a contract to work for 4 to 10 years for anyone who would passage over to America

Answer 17

Indentured servant

Question 18

A 3 at trade between the colonies of the Caribbean Islands and Africa

Answer 18

Triangular Trade route

Question 19

The belief that one race is superior ir inferior to the other

Answer 19

Racism

Question 20

Laws of slaves that denied thee rights and activities of slaves

Answer 20

Slave Code

Question 21

Famous slave that was captured in West Africa

Answer 21

Olaudah Equiano

Question 22

The boss of the slaves

Answer 22

Overseer

Question 23

School paid with taxes and no religious instruction in the New England Colonies

Answer 23

Public Schools

Question 24

Women that opened up their homes to teach the boys and girls of their town- Southern Colonies

Answer 24

Dame Schools

Question 25

Was a poet and wrote "The 10th Muse and lately sprung up in America"

Answer 25

Anne Bradstreet

Question 26

Enslaved African American from Boston who wrote poetry

Answer 26

Phyllis Wheatley

Question 27

Led the Great Awakening and "Sinner in the Hand of God"

Answer 27

Johnathan Edwards

Question 28

Rights that belong to every human being from birth

Answer 28

Natural rights

Question 29

Belief that monarchs got their authority to rule directly from God

Answer 29

Divine Right

Question 30

The division of the powers of the government into separate branches (legislative, executive, judicial branches)

Answer 30

Separation of powers

Question 31

Wrote "Two Treaties on Government" and it said "life liberty property" he also challenged the idea of Divine Rights (England)

Answer 31

John Locke

Question 32

(France) wrote "The Spirit of Laws" he came up with the idea of Separation of Powers

Answer 32

Montesquieu

Question 33

Growth in Scientific knowledge in the 1600's in Europe and it spread to colonies in 1700's

Answer 33

Enlightenment period