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Chapter 4 exam study guide
Section 1
What did King William and Queen Mary sign in 1689?
Who had the right to vote in English colonies?
The Zenger case helped establish the right of
How did some colonists get around the Navigation Acts?
The Magna Carta was the first document to
The legal rights that Englishmen had led the colonists to
Whose trial helped establish freedom of the press?
Both the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights
How did the Magna Carta, the English Parliament, and the English Bill of Rights impact colonial government?
The Magna Carta guaranteed the right to trial by ______.
In 1701, Pennsylvania colonists forced Penn and his council to give up their power
to ______.
The Zenger case helped establish freedom of the ______as a basic liberty
The English Parliament passed a series of Navigation Acts to support ______.
______the upper class of colonial society
____ one who agreed to work for a number of years in exchange for ocean passage to the Americas
Section 2
In colonial families, who usually handled childcare and domestic duties?
In colonial times, how did a young man often learn a trade?
Unlike the poor in Europe, lower-class colonists
Free African Americans in the colonies were allowed
Most women in colonial America were expected to marry men
At around what age were colonial children expected to begin working?
“Fixed gown for Prude, Mended Mother’s Riding Hood, Spun short thread, Fixed two gowns for Welsh’s girls, . . . Pleated and ironed, Read sermon of Dodridge’s, . . . Milked cows, . . . Made broom from Guinea wheat straw, Spun thread to whiten, Set a red dye, . . . Spun harness twice, Scoured pewter. . . .”
—Diary of Abigail Foote, of Colchester, Connecticut
Based on the list of chores, Abigail Foote is most likely
Many standard contracts of an indentured servant failed to mention the servant’s wages. Why?
Section 3-----
How many enslaved Africans were taken to British North America?
What percent of enslaved Africans died or committed suicide during the Middle Passage?
What was a factor in the growth of southern Slavery?
What was legal under slave codes?
“The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us….The shrieks of the woman, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.”– The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
What does the quote describe?
Enslaved people such as those described in the quote experienced a brutal voyage known as the
Which colony had a ban on Slavery until the 1750s?
What was the main reason why colonial authorities wrote slave codes?
All servants imported and brought into the Country . . . who were not Christians in their native Country . . . shall be accounted and be slaves. All Negro, mulatto and Indian slaves within this dominion [territory] . . . shall be held to be real estate. If any slave resist his master . . . correcting such slave, and shall happen to be killed in such correction . . . the master shall be free of all punishment . . . as if such accident never happened.
—Law passed by the Virginia General Assembly, 1705
The text above is an example of
If the English colonies had not had so many plantations, it is likely that
Authorities established slave codes in order to prevent slaves from ______.
Enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic on a voyage that became known as the ______.
Enslaved Africans were ______to farm and plantation owners.
By the late 1600s, the southern economy had come to depend on ______to support
its plantation system.
Enslaved Africans on rice plantations in South Carolina spoke ______, a practice that
is continued by some in the area today.
Section 4
Every Puritan town with at least 50 families was required
What happened to Puritan towns that did not set up the required schools?
How did the southern gentry usually educate their children?
What schools today would compare to Puritan grammar schools?
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
Who published the Pennsylvania Gazette?
What was the Great Awakening?
What was Montesquieu’s contribution to ideas about government?
Unlike modern public schools, colonial public schools included instruction in
Who wrote Poor Richard’s Almanack?
Which of these examples of colonial literature was written as part of the Great Awakening?
Some women opened ______schools in their homes to teach young boys and girls
to read and write.
John Locke and the Baron de Montesquieu were two important thinkers in a movement
called the ______.
Colonial grammar schools were something like today’s ______schools.
America’s first published poet was
______preacher who played a role in the Great Awakening.
Chapter 4 Essay Questions
Which groups in colonial America were allowed to vote, and which were not? Section 1
How did the growth of the colonial middle class give hope to the colonial poor? Section 2
What were some features of the slave codes, and what was their purpose? Section 3
Explain how Enlightenment thinkers in England and France influenced the formation of the United States government. Include details from the chapter. Section 4 Regents Question