Governing the Colonies
What are the two houses in the English Parliament?
The House of Lords and the House of Commons (x6)
What work came with living on a farm?
Work included planting crops, cultivating, harvesting crops, mending fences, tending to animals, and chopping wood
About how many slaves were transported to the Americas between the 1500s and 1800s?
10 million slaves?
What was the first college founded in North America?
Harvard College
What is a legislature?
A group of people who have the power to make laws
Name one group of people that was unable to vote in the colonies
Women, Native Americans, Free African Americans, Slaves
How was the gentry different from the middle-class?
The gentry was far more wealthy and could afford to hold public office
What was the Middle Passage?
The journey slaves would be forced to make across the Atlantic Ocean (x3)
How were colonial schools different from modern public schools?
They were required to teach religion
What were the slave codes?
strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves
What document signed in 1215, limited the monarch's right to levy taxes without the consult of the nobility?
The Magna Carta
What did African American slaveowners do with their slaves?
Set them free
What system caused a need for slaves in the colonies?
The plantation system
What was the result of the Great Awakening?
Tolerance of different religions and a spread of democratic ideals (x2)
What are natural rights?
Rights that belong to every human from birth
What are two right granted by the English Bill of Rights?
Trial by jury and habeas corpus
In your own words, describe the role women had in colonial society.
They had no public life and were meant to stay at home and take care of the kids
What were some laws put in place by the slave codes?
Owners couldn't be charged with murder for killing a slave, slaves could not read or write, slaves could not meet in large groups or own weapons
What did Locke argue?
Locke argued natural rights came from God and not a monarch and that people form their governments to protect their rights
What is indentured servitude?
A signed contract to work from 4 to 10 years in colonies for anyone who would pay his or her colonial passage to the Americas
What three laws were put in place by the navigation acts?
Shipments from Europe to the colonies had to first go through England
Any imports to England had to come on ships built and owned by British subjects
The colonies could only sell key products such as tobacco and sugar to England
What made indentured servitude different from slavery?
Indentured servitude was only temporary while slavery was for life
Describe the triangular trade. What were the three main locations and what did each location trade?
What did Montesquieu suggest would keep one group in government from growing too powerful?
Montesquieu argued for a separation of powers in the government
What is habeas corpus?
The principle that a person cannot be held in prison without being charged with a specific crime