The document forcing King John to give the English some rights signed in 1215
What is The Magna Carta?
100
the idea that a person cannot be held in jail without being charged with a crime is called? (it is Latin for Produce the body)
What is habeas corpus?
100
About 90% of colonists lived on these
What are farms?
100
small planters and artisans made up this group of colonists.
What was The Middle Class?
200
The Council formed to advise the king turned into Britain's main governing body to this day.
What is Parliament?
200
The most important Freedom of the Press case established the idea that truth can be a defense in a libel case (libel is publishing statements that damage a person's reputation)
What is The Zenger Case. John Peter Zenger (1735)
200
A family that includes parents, children, grandparents, aunts uncles and cousins living together is called?
What is crowded Ha Ha- actually- an extended family?
200
Those who signed a contract for a certain number of years of labor in return for passage to the colonies were called?
What were indentured servants?
300
The British Government is composed of two houses. Name them..
What are The House of Commons and the House of Lords?
300
colonies sending raw materials to meet the manufacturing needs of their parent countries and existing as a place to sell the parent country's finished goods is called this-
What is mercantilism?
300
Some of the traditional roles of women in families included
What are domestic chores such as running the household, preparing food and raising the children. They also did farm work.
300
About 60,000 of these people were free, even though about 3/4 of a million were enslaved by 1790?
What were African-Americans?
400
King William and Queen Mary (yes THOSE monarchs) had to sign a document in 1689 giving even more power to the English people.
What was The English Bill of Rights?
400
The regulation of trade between England and her colonies was established by several laws or acts called these.
What are The Navigation Acts?
400
Name five jobs open to colonial men (must be legal)
What is cooper, tanner,carpenter, joiner, wheelwright, butcher, baker, candlestick maker, blacksmith, silversmith, wand maker...oops
400
The back and forth trade between the colonies, the Caribbean islands and Africa (and sometimes England) was called?
What was The Triangular trade?
500
The House of Burgesses was the first colonial legislature. It was formed in 1619. Name the offices appointed by the king or queen of England to help govern each colony.
What were colonial governors?
500
Many children learned a trade by studying with a craftsman for a number of years. What were these students called?
What are apprentices?
500
Name some toys that colonial children used.
What were dolls, tops, string, squirrel heads,(not really) hoops and others.