7th Grade Chapter 4

In 1969, King William and Queen Mary

• dissolved Parliament.

• executed King Charles I.

• signed the English Bill of Rights.

• established a two-house legislature

Who among the following had the right to vote in English colonies?

• white men and women who owned property

• white men only

• white men and freed Africans

• white men and some Native Americans

The Zenger trial helped establish the right of 

• freedom of the press.

• habeas corpus.

• trial by jury.

• freedom of religion.

How did some colonists get around the Navigation Acts?

• by supporting mercantilism 

• by selling to English merchants

• by smuggling

• by growing their own tobacco

Unlike the poor in Europe, lower-class colonists

• often lived in luxury.

• had a great deal of leisure time.

• could count on a comfortable retirement.

• could hope to acquire property and move up the social scale.

The Magna Carta was the first document to 

• place limits on the power of wealthy landowners.

• established a monarchy.

• place limits on an English ruler's power.

• give greater power to an 
  English ruler.

Both the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights

• guaranteed all men the right to vote.

• stated that physical attacks were considered "cruel and unusual punishment."

• declared that only a free man has the right to protest his arrest.

• gave the people accused of a crime the right to a trial by jury.

How did the Magna Carta, the English Parliament, and the English Bill of Rights impact colonial government?

• They inspired the English Colonists to create the Constitution.

• They led the English colonists to give most people the right to vote.

• They encouraged the English colonists to give most people the right to vote.

• They supported the colonists' demands for self-rule.

The upper class of colonial society

• gentry

• Benjamin Franklin 

• Jonathan Edwards

• apprentice