Chapter 4 History Test Answers
What percent of enslaved Africans died during the middle passage?
15-20.
At around what age did colonial children begin to work?
7
Who published the Pennsylvania Gazette?
Ben Franklin.
Who wrote poor Richard's almanac?
Ben Franklin.
What led to new churches in the colonies?
The Great Awakening
Enslaved Africans had to go through what brutal passage?
The middle passage
Free African Americans were in the colonies were allowed.....
To be slaveholders and own property.
What was the Great Awakening?
a Christian revival that swept the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.
In colonial times, how did a young man often learn a trade?
by becoming an apprentice
How did some colonists get around the Navigation Acts?
by smuggling
Unlike poor in Europe, lower-class colonists.....
could hope to acquire property and move up the social scale.
In colonial families, who usually handled childcare and domestic duties?
females
The Zenger case helped establish the right of....
freedom of the press
Most women in colonial America were expected to marry.......
men chosen by their parents.
The magna carta was the first document to...
place limits on an English ruler's power.
Unlike modern public schools, colonial public schools included instruction in...
religion
What was Montesquieu's contribution to ideas about government?
separation of powers.
In 1689, King William and Queen Mary........
signed the English Bill of Rights
Why did people right slave codes?
so that there were no revolts.
What was legal under the slave codes?
the killing of a slave by his or her master.
What was a factor in the growth of southern slavery?
the plantation system
How did the southern gentry usually educate their children?
they hired private tudors.
Every Puritan with at least 50 families was required...
to have an elementary school.