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100

The Mayflower Compact was the first:

set of rules/government/constitution in the Colonies

100

Plantations were:

Large farms

100

A strait is:

A narrow passage that connected 2 bodies of water

100

Under English law, _______, or people who owed money, would be imprisoned until they could pay what they owed

Debtors

200

A Bill of Rights is:

A list of freedoms that a government promises to protect

200

One example of monotheism is:

Islam/Christianity/Judaism

200

Christopher Columbus thought he landed in ______ when his boat came ashore in North America

India

200

A charter was given to which company to start the American colonies?

The Virginia Company

300

Habeas Corpus means:

A person cannot be held in jail without being charged for a crime

300

Presidio and pueblo are spanish words, meaning ______ and ______.

Military post and town

300

The Northwest passage was a sea route that connected the ________ to the __________.

Atlantic to the Pacific

300

The three classes of colonial society were:

The Gentry, the middle class, and indentured servants

400

Magna Carta, a Latin name meaning Great Charter, placed restrictions on:

The English ruler's power

400

A royal colony is directly governed by the King while a proprietary colony was:

given to an individual family from the monarch for the individuals to govern

400

The Back country was a frontier extending from _________ to _________ (states).

Pennsylvania to Georgia

400

Hernando Cortez took the Aztec leader, _________, hostage and eventually killed him for control of his nation.

Moctezuma/Montezuma

500

the English law on Libel was changed when Andrew Hamilton argued that for a statement to be libel, it had to be:

Untrue/A lie/False

500

Mercantilism was:

The idea that colonies only existed to make the home country more powerful

500

The line That separated the north, where slaves couldn't be owned, from the south, where slavery was allowed, was called the:

Mason-Dixon line

500

The Mayflower Compact was the first __________ in the Colonies

Legislature/set of laws/government

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