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Ch 4 Life in the Colonies

Quiz by Deana Gray

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  • Q1
    powers or privileges that belong to people as citizens and that cannot or should not be taken away by the government
    rights
    30s
  • Q2
    the lawmaking body of England, consisting of representatives throughout the kingdom
    Parliament
    30s
  • Q3
    to make a formal demand or request
    petition
    30s
  • Q4
    the document that English nobles forced King John to approve in 1215, limiting the king's power through the idea of rule of law. It also protected rights such as trial by jury
    Magna Carta
    30s
  • Q5
    an act passed by parliament in 1689 further limiting the monarch's power by giving parliament the sole power to tax specifying citizens' rights, such as trial by jury and protection from cruel and unusual punishment.
    English Bill of Rights
    30s
  • Q6
    a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the neck and hands
    pillory
    30s
  • Q7
    a part of society definied by such qualities as wealth, occupation, and inherited titles or honors. May include an upper class, a middle class, and a lower class.
    class
    30s
  • Q8
    trade pattern that developed in the colonies; new england shipped rum to the west coast of africa in exchange for slaves that were sent to the west indies for molasses that was sold in New England
    triangular trade
    30s
  • Q9
    Who and what were traded in the "Triangular Trade"?
    Quakers, horses, paper, indigo
    Native Americans, rum, flour
    Africans, molasses, guns, lumber
    Pilgrims, fish, cloth, tools
    30s
  • Q10
    the middle portion of the triangular trade that brought African slaves to the Americas
    Middle Passage
    30s
  • Q11
    a revival of religious feeling and belief in the American colonies that began in the 1730s. Helped pave the way to the revolution by encouraging the ideas of liberty, equality, and resistance to authority.
    First Great Awakening
    30s
  • Q12
    The First Great Awakening
    revived religious feeling and helped spread the idea that all people were equal.
    kept people from having independent feelings toward Great Britain.
    helped people get to work on time.
    converted most people to Catholicism.
    30s
  • Q13
    a religious gathering designed to reawaken faith through impassioned preaching.
    revival
    30s
  • Q14
    betrayal of one's country
    treason
    30s
  • Q15
    Nine out of ten colonists
    worked in shops and stores.
    attended free public schools.
    lived on small family farms.
    came to America as slaves.
    30s

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