History Test 9th grade

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Which Colony was the first to promote religious tolerance?

• Jamestown

• Maryland

• Charles Town

• Carolinas

What is the Toleration act of 1649

• outlined specific constitutional and civil rights and ultimately gave Parliament power over the monarchy.

• It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual

• It allowed most dissenters the freedom to worship publicly, provided they took a simplified version of the oath of allegiance.

• laws relating to slavery and enslaved people

True or False: The Toleration Act stopped all religious conflicts 

• True 

• False

Why did more enslaved Africans live in South Carolina?

TRUE OR FALSE: Are Pilgrim and Puritans the same?

• True

• False

What is the Mayflower Compact

• the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the US

• is a document guaranteeing English political liberties

• a legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good

Who is Squanto?

• a member of the Patuxet tribe best known for being an early liaison between the Native American population in Southern New England and the Mayflower Pilgrims

• daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief

• was an American soldier, statesman, and Founding Father

In what way were women essential to the middle colonies?

What is the English Bill of Rights?

• gave all non-conformists, except Roman Catholics, freedom of worship, thus rewarding Protestant dissenters for their refusal to side with James II.

• This act reduced the powers of the English monarch

• declaring the sovereign to be subject to the rule of law and documenting the liberties held by “free men,”

True or False: Georgia and Virginia are part of the Southern Colonies

• True 

• False