What is a pilgrim?
A pilgrim is someone who travels to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion.
Separatist who wanted to start their own church from scratch
In exchange for service, passage to America, room, lodging, food
indentured servant
Written in November of 1620 and signed on November 11, 1620. It was a short document that outlined the pilgrims' right to govern themselves and to create a civilized society for the greater good of the colony.
The Mayflower Compact
the first trial in the colonies
The Trial of John Peter Zenger
_____ used sickness to kill ____
The English used sickness to kill native americans
a political system in which supreme authority is vested in the monarch, an individual ruler who functions as head of state.
monarchy
Little pay for mostly lifelong service, could at times earn or buy freedom
slave
A Hands off Approach to Colonial Trade
an unofficial policy of the British government that allowed the American colonies to have a degree of autonomy and lax enforcement of trade laws and other regulations in the 1600s and 1700s.
Salutary Neglect
True or False
John Peter Zenger was found guilty of libel
False
He was aquitted
It is important to note that the Zenger case did not establish legal precedent in seditious libel or freedom of the press. Rather, it influenced how people thought about these subjects and led, many decades later, to the protections embodied in the Unites States Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Sedition Act of 1798.
True or False
slaves, indentured servants, women, and children were allowed to vote
False
loyal subjects, pilgrims that would travel to establish their colony in Jamestown
Contract of 3 - 7 years, usually 1 master
What is a burgess?
A citizen representative in local government
What two American revolutionaries were influenced by enlightenment thinkers?
Thomas Paine, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin
Who defined the principles of separation of church and state?
Another name for a protestant who wanted to reform (change) the church of England so that they would be more pure (Closer to the Bible)
Puritan
Name three characteristics of a slave in colonial times
natives captured in America
Africans captured and sold into slavery and brought to america
for life
generational
The first Permanent English settlement in North America
The first English Royal Colony in North America
The Birthplace of Representative Government in the United-States-to-be.
Jamestown
What were two phrases that john locke inspired colonists to borrow? Bonus 50 points for the third missing phrase
Life liberty
bonus : pursuit of happiness
Who said that?
____ believed that people were the source of power
John Locke
Name the three colonial regions for the thirteen colonies
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Name three characteristics of an indentured servant in colonial times
someone who chose to emmigrate
contractually obligated for 5-7 years
from a poor or criminal class
Name 2 enlightenment thinkers that directly impacted our political institutions.
Bonus 100 points if you can name all 4
voltaire
montesquieu
Jean Jaques Rousseau
John Locke
"...as being the decree of the divine will discernible by the light of nature and indicating what is and what is not in conformity with rational nature, and for this very reason commending or prohibiting"
Who said that?
John Locke
How did the colonists make political decisions?
majority rule/ representative democracy, voting