1. 6.4 Democracy Takes Root pp. 168-171

2. Objectives: Explain how the Glorious Revolution affected the colonies.
Examine how the colonists tried to establish their rights as citizens.

3. Review:
1. What factors made farming difficult in the New England Colonies?
2. Define subsistence farming—
3. List three ways colonists in New England made a living.
4. Define export—
5. Define import—
6. What were some products traded along the triangular trade routes?
7. Why did Puritans believe it was important to be able to read?
8. Define dame school—
9. What was a hornbook?
10. What did the Massachusetts School Law (1647) require?
11. What was the name of the first college in the colonies?
12. What did New Englanders call the open field around which they built their towns and villages?
13. What were two functions of the New England meetinghouse?
14. Which Massachusetts village experienced a series of witch trials and executions in 1692?

4. Review: 15. What advantages did farmers in the Middle Colonies enjoy?
16. Define cash crops—
17. What were the Middle Colonies known as and why?
18. Define Conestoga wagon—
19. What were the two largest cities in the colonies by the mid-1700s?
20. In terms of national origin, how were the settlers in the Middle Colonies unlike those in New England?
21. Define apprentice—
22. Define frontier—

5. Review: 23. Define urban— 24. Define rural—
25. Identify the one large city in the Southern Colonies.
26. Who made up the rich, upper class in the Southern Colonies?
27. Who made up the lower class in the Southern Colonies?
28. List three cash crops grown in the Southern Colonies.
29. Define Tidewater—
30. From which part of the world did most of the slaves in the Southern Colonies come?
31. Define Middle Passage—
32. Define slave codes—

6. A. Changes in Colonial Governments (pp. 168-169)
King James II tried to unite New England, New York, and New Jersey as “the Dominion of New England.”
The dominion’s royal governor, Sir Edmund Andros, placed restrictions on freedoms to which New Englanders were accustomed.

7. B. The Glorious Revolution (p. 169)
In 1688, the English Parliament unseated James II and gave the crown to his Protestant daughter, Mary, and her husband, William of Orange.
This was known as the Glorious Revolution.
The people of Boston used this event as an opportunity to move against Governor Andros and end the Dominion of New England.

8. C. Two Protests (pp )
In 1676 Bacon’s Rebellion occurred because many people felt that Virginia’s governor favored the rich and did little to protect the poorer frontier settlers against Native American attacks.
In New York a printer named John Peter Zenger was found not guilty of libel—the act of publishing harmful statements—after his newspaper criticized the colony’s governor.

9. D. Mercantilism (pp )
Most European countries with colonies followed a policy called mercantilism, which held that in order for a country to gain wealth, it had to export (sell to other countries) more goods than it imported (bought from other countries).
The English colonies were important because they provided raw materials to the home country, and they were a ready-made market for products from the home country.

10. E. Navigation Acts (p. 171)
The Navigation Acts required colonists to use English-built ships for all their trade.
Certain products—like tobacco, cotton, and indigo—could be sold only in England or in an English possession.
Any crops or products bought or sold elsewhere had to be shipped through England and be taxed.

11. F. Rights of the Colonists (p. 171)
The colonists were proud of the rights they had to a fair trial by a jury of equals, and the right to be taxed by lawmakers elected by the people.
Most colonies had an appointed governor and a legislature, or law-making body.
The colonists were allowed a great deal of self-rule because they were so far away from England.

12. Review:
33. What colonies were united to form “the Dominion of New England”?
34. Who was appointed governor of the dominion?
35. What caused Bacon’s Rebellion?
36. Define libel—
37. Whose case was the first in the Americas to test the notion of freedom of the press?
38. Define mercantilism—
39. Define Navigation Acts—
40. Define legislature—