5th Grade - Chapter 3 Test

Question 1

tolerate

Answer 1

To allow people to have beliefs or behaviors that are different for everyone

Question 2

patroons

Answer 2

Wealthy Dutch men who agreed to bring 50 people to their colony, and then those settlers had to share their crops with the patroons

Question 3

proprietor

Answer 3

A person who is granted ownership of a colony

Question 4

plantation

Answer 4

A large farm that grows one crop as a cash crop

Question 5

debtor

Answer 5

a person who owes money but cannot repay it
Slave trade

Question 6

Great Awakening

Answer 6

a period of time in the 1700’s in which interest in religion grew

Question 7

backcountry

Answer 7

The land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic Coastal Plain that was much cheaper

Question 8

apprentice

Answer 8

Someone who works for a skilled person to learn a trade or craft
Slave codes (be able to give an example of one of the rules)

Question 9

Triangular trade

Answer 9

Be sure to know who or what was traded/sold at each stop

(pg. 132,133) - the map is posted in Google Classroom

Question 10

assembly

Answer 10

a lawmaking body

Question 11

legislation

Answer 11

The making of the laws

Question 12

What was the Puritans’ 1st settlement?

Answer 12

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Question 13

At first, who were the only people who could vote?

Answer 13

White men who owned land

Question 14

What was the 1st colony to allow freedom of religion?

Answer 14

Rhode Island

Question 15

What made New Amsterdam so perfect for trade?

Answer 15

Location; easy to get to by boat

Question 16

How did the settlers in New York and New Jersey learn new skills?

Answer 16

They shared the new ideas with each other (Be able to give an example.)

Question 17

What does Pennsylvania mean?

Answer 17

“Penn’s Woods”

Question 18

What was George Calvert’s dream?

Answer 18

To start a colony for the Catholics

Question 19

What was the Toleration Act of 1649?

Answer 19

(passed by Maryland assembly) Granted religious freedom to Christians & paved the way for religious freedom in America

Question 20

What was one main cash crop on the plantations?

Answer 20

tobacco

Question 21

What did James Oglethorpe want to do with debtors instead of throwing them into prison?

Answer 21

Work off their debt in Georgia

Question 22

What kind of relationship did Oglethorpe know he needed to have with the Native Americans in order for his colony to succeed?

Answer 22

peaceful & friendly

Question 23

Indentured servants

Question 24

What led to population growth in the colonies?

Answer 24

Trade

Question 25

Which colony had the largest enslaved population of the Northern colonies?

Answer 25

New York

Question 26

How did the slaves resist slavery?

Answer 26

Slowed down their work ○ Broke or lost tools ○ Ran away to the backcountry

Question 27

Why did England make it illegal for the colonies to manufacture goods that competed with their goods?

Answer 27

England wanted the colonists to buy THEIR manufactured goods (examples: hats, nails, & horseshoes)

Question 28

The Navigation Acts

Answer 28

English kings allowed the colonies to make their own laws, but the laws had to be approved by England’s government

Question 29

The Virginia Charter

Answer 29

Governors represented the interests of the king Assemblies represented the interests of the colonies

Question 30

John Locke (English thinker) believed in “natural rights” - what were these 3 rights?

Answer 30

life, freedom (liberty) , and the right to own property

Question 31

John Zenger

Answer 31

Freedom of the press (Be able to explain what this is and how it came to be.) Zenger was a German man who wrote negatively about the New York Governor, William Cosby. Zenger went to court and won because he “had the right to write or speak the truth”. The freedom of the press became a part of the U.S. Constitution

Question 32

Phillis Wheatley

Answer 32

Freed slave who was well-known for her poetry in which she wrote about the natural rights of enslaved people