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The Mayflower Compact was the first:
set of rules/government/constitution in the Colonies
Plantations were:
Large farms
A strait is:
A narrow passage that connected 2 bodies of water
Under English law, _______, or people who owed money, would be imprisoned until they could pay what they owed
Debtors
A Bill of Rights is:
A list of freedoms that a government promises to protect
One example of monotheism is:
Islam/Christianity/Judaism
Christopher Columbus thought he landed in ______ when his boat came ashore in North America
India
A charter was given to which company to start the American colonies?
The Virginia Company
Habeas Corpus means:
A person cannot be held in jail without being charged for a crime
Presidio and pueblo are spanish words, meaning ______ and ______.
Military post and town
The Northwest passage was a sea route that connected the ________ to the __________.
Atlantic to the Pacific
The three classes of colonial society were:
The Gentry, the middle class, and indentured servants
Magna Carta, a Latin name meaning Great Charter, placed restrictions on:
The English ruler's power
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
The Back country was a frontier extending from _________ to _________ (states).
Pennsylvania to Georgia
Hernando Cortez took the Aztec leader, _________, hostage and eventually killed him for control of his nation.
Moctezuma/Montezuma
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
Mercantilism was:
The idea that colonies only existed to make the home country more powerful
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
The Mayflower Compact was the first __________ in the Colonies
Legislature/set of laws/government