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