Chapter 4 Study Guide
Chapter 4 Study Guide
Vocabulary Terms to Know
Vocabulary Terms to Know
Legislature
Habeas Corpus
Extended Family
Triangular Trade
Slave Code
Natural Rights
Legislature
Habeas Corpus
Extended Family
Triangular Trade
Slave Code
Natural Rights
Bill of Rights
Freedom of the Press
Gentry
Racism
Dame School
Divine Rights
Information
- The Magna Carta was the first document to limit English Rights and allow peoples
freedoms
- Only white males who owned land were allowed to vote in early colonial
governments
- The Zenger case established freedom of the press
- The Navigation Acts benefited the colonies in trading, however it limited who they
could trade with (England).
- Colonial Society was plain. Much of the time you would be working to survive.
Children were expected to start working at the age of 7. Life was not easy
- Different Social classes made up colonial society. The Gentry were top, middle
class second, and indentured servants third.
- The Atlantic Slave trade saw hundreds of thousands of slave being brought from
West Africa to the colonies, West Indies, and South America.
- The Middle Passage was the brutal voyage across the Atlantic for enslaved
Africans. 1 out of 5 died on the journey over.
- Triangular Trade was the three way trade between the colonies, the islands of the
Caribbean, and Africa.
- Much of the slavery in the early colonies took place in the south due to large scale
plantations and the required work to maintain them.
- School was often based on strict Puritan teachings.
- In school you would learn to read, write, basic math, and religion.
- The Great Awakening was a religious revival in the colonies.
- The Enlightenment was a period of time where human rights came into focus
rather than divine right.
- John Locke argued that every human being is born with natural rights, among
these are life, liberty, and property.
- Many monarchs believed in divine right, that their authority came from god.
- Montesquieu argued that there should be a separation of powers in governments,
divided into three branches.
Bill of Rights
Freedom of the Press
Gentry
Racism
Dame School
Divine Rights
Information
- The Magna Carta was the first document to limit English Rights and allow peoples
freedoms
- Only white males who owned land were allowed to vote in early colonial
governments
- The Zenger case established freedom of the press
- The Navigation Acts benefited the colonies in trading, however it limited who they
could trade with (England).
- Colonial Society was plain. Much of the time you would be working to survive.
Children were expected to start working at the age of 7. Life was not easy
- Different Social classes made up colonial society. The Gentry were top, middle
class second, and indentured servants third.
- The Atlantic Slave trade saw hundreds of thousands of slave being brought from
West Africa to the colonies, West Indies, and South America.
- The Middle Passage was the brutal voyage across the Atlantic for enslaved
Africans. 1 out of 5 died on the journey over.
- Triangular Trade was the three way trade between the colonies, the islands of the
Caribbean, and Africa.
- Much of the slavery in the early colonies took place in the south due to large scale
plantations and the required work to maintain them.
- School was often based on strict Puritan teachings.
- In school you would learn to read, write, basic math, and religion.
- The Great Awakening was a religious revival in the colonies.
- The Enlightenment was a period of time where human rights came into focus
rather than divine right.
- John Locke argued that every human being is born with natural rights, among
these are life, liberty, and property.
- Many monarchs believed in divine right, that their authority came from god.
- Montesquieu argued that there should be a separation of powers in governments,
divided into three branches.