Social Studies: Chapter 7, Lesson 5

A lawmaking body like the House of Burgesses is called an (a)  

• assembly
• colony
• governor
• charter

The making or passing of laws is known as ________.

• legislation

• judiciary

• execution

• arbitration

A volunteer military force is called a (a)   .

• militia
• battalion
• navy
• brigade

Members of the assembly are called ________.

• delegates

• judges

• officers

• spectators

A town officer in charge of keeping order is called a ________.

• constable

• mayor

• clerk

• judge

The betrayal of one's country by giving help to an enemy is called (a)   .

• treason
• loyalty
• patriotism
• alliance

A wealthy planter and patriot who served on the House of Burgesses was ________.

• Richard Henry Lee

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Patrick Henry

An English philosopher who believed the government was responsible for protecting people's natural rights was (a)   .

• John Locke
• Thomas Hobbes
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Francis Bacon

A German immigrant who was put in jail for publishing stories about the government in the newspaper was ________.

• John Peter Zenger

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Paine

• Alexander Hamilton

An enslaved African poet whose poems called for fair treatment for all people was ________.

• Phillis Wheatley

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• Sojourner Truth