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What was the Magna Carta?

Like the constitution

Like the Bill of Rights

A contract signing away part of the king's power to the parliament

A document stating protections from the government

What was the Parliament?

Equal to the Congress

A group that makes the laws

Kings could makes laws too

What was the English Bill of Rights?

Equal to the first 10 ammendments

Equal to the Bill of Life

Protections against the government

The right to publish the truth

What was Freedom of the Press?

Reporters saying false thing about others

The right to publish the truth

Protected people

Exposed the government

What were the two sections of the Parliament? What were they equal to?

House of Lords and House of Representatives

House of Lords and House of Commons

Senate and House of Represenatatives

Senate and House of Landlords

Men could vote and controlled the families income and property

True

False

The lower class consisted of Farm Hands and Indentured Servants

True

False

The middle class consisted of farmers and loyals

True

False, loyals were gentry

What were slave codes?

Laws restricting slave activity

A secret way slaves talked

What was the middle passage?

A voyage from the Americas to Asia

A voyage from Africa to America

Latino slaves sent to work in Asia

African American slaves sent to work in the Americas

What were the Navigation Acts?

Importants could only to America on British ships and from England

Colonies could only sell their key products to England

Shipments from England to America were inspected by the English before entering America

Colonists sometimes smuggled goods from and to other countries

Everyone had Freedom of Speech

Everyone had equal rights

Puritans founded private schooling

True

False, they founded public schooling

What was Enlightenment?

Everyone had equal rights

All problems could be solved with human reasoning

What was Locke's theory

Everyone had 3 basic rights: Life, Liberty, and Property

Thought people could rebel against the king if the king or queen violated their basic ights

Everyone had 2 basic rights: Love and property

What was Montesquieu's theory?

Good government's are run by one leader

Good governments were run by more than one leader

Thought governments should broken into three branches: Judicial, Legislative, and executive

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