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Colonial Gov’t Age of Reason Religious Revivalism Industry and Economy Demographics 10 20 30 40 50

Question 1 - 10 First governing document signed by British settlers in the New World. Drafted by William Bradford

Answer 1 – 10 Mayflower Compact

Question 1 - 20 Located in Virginia, this was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America.

Answer 1 – 20 House of Burgesses

Question 1 - 30 Political system where the legalized force is restricted through delegated and enumerated powers. Namely, checks and balances, separation of powers, and the rule of law.

Answer 1 – 30 Limited Government

Question 1 - 40 Policy of the British government which let colonists govern themselves while British officials watched from a distance

Answer 1 – 40 Salutary Neglect

Question 1 - 50 document created in 1215 which granted nobles various legal rights and limited the king from imposing taxes w/o consent of a council. Led to the formation of British Parliament

Answer 1 – 50 Magna Carta

Question 2 - 10 European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition

Answer 2 – 10 The Enlightenment

Question 2 - 20 Position taken by Enlightenment thinkers that rejects revelation and authority  (the church) as a source of religious knowledge

Answer 2 – 20 Deism

Question 2 - 30 Name 3 of John Locke’s Natural Rights

Answer 2 – 30 Life, Liberty, and Property

Question 2 - 40 Theory which stated that for the good of society, people agree to give up certain freedoms and empower governments to maintain order.

Answer 2 – 40 Social Contract

Question 2 - 50 Term used to describe the unintended social benefits of individual actions/decisions on an economy

Answer 2 – 50 Invisible Hand

Question 3 - 10 Protestant movement that taught people that true Christianity required having a personal relationship with God rather than adhering to religious traditions and ceremonies.

Answer 3 – 10 The Great Awakening

Question 3 - 20 Traveling preacher who advocated rebirth and revitalization of one's own faith. Known for tremendous oratory skills and great personal appeal.

Answer 3 – 20 George Whitefield

Question 3 - 30 Convicted of Heresy in 1637, stressed the individual’s intuition as a means of reaching God as wells as protesting the patriarchy which persisted in colonial Massachusetts

Answer 3 – 30 Anne Hutchinson

Question 3 - 40 Religion popular in the Middle Colonies. Promoted religious tolerance, equality of the sexes, and non-violence

Answer 3 – 40 Quakerism

Question 3 - 50 the largest  group of religion in New England. Included Puritans and other dissidents who broke away from the Church of England.

Answer 3 – 50 Congregationalism

Question 4 - 10 Group of colonies which was known best for fishing, shipbuilding, and trade

Answer 4 – 10 New England Colonies

Question 4 - 20 Group of colonies founded for the purpose of business, and making a profit in anyway possible.

Answer 4 – 20 Southern Colonies

Question 4 - 30 Economic theory which stressed exporting more than you import, limiting trade, and self-sufficiency.

Answer 4 – 30 Mercantilism

Question 4 - 40 What were the number one crops grown in Virginia and South Carolina.

Answer 4 – 40 Tobacco and Rice/Indigo

Question 4 - 50 Social class in the south made up of wealthy plantation owners and rich businessmen

Answer 4 – 50 Gentry

Question 5 - 10 A person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a new country.

Answer 5 – 10 Indentured Servant

Question 5 - 20 Give two scenarios in which women were able to acquire wealth in the colonies.

Answer 5 – 20 Death of father, Death of husband (No male heir)

Question 5 - 30 What was the primary demographic feature of the population of 18th century colonial America?

Answer 5 – 30 A Young Average Age

Question 5 - 40 Number one cause for the sudden rise in population in the colonies during the 18th Century.

Answer 5 – 40 Need for labor

Question 5 - 50 Name two of the three professions mentioned in class which women were able to enter

Answer 5 – 50 Shopkeepers, hostesses, and doctors