A List of Freedoms that a government promises to protect
Bill of Rights
A group of people that make laws
legislature
the principal that a person cannot be held in prison without being
charged with a specific crime
habeas corpus
Freedom of the press
the right of journalist to publish the truth without restriction or penalty.
publishing of statements that damage a persons repution
libel
extended family
a family that includes, in addition to the parents and their
children, other members such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins
signed a contract to work from 4 to 10 years in the colonies for
anyone who would pay for his or her ocean passage to the Americas
indentured servant
Middle Class
was made up of small planters, independent farmers and artisans
was a three way trade between the colonies, the islands of Caribbean,
and Africa
triangular trade
The first colonial poet
Anne Bradstreet
Great Awakening
religious revival of the colonies during the 1730s- 1740s
Public School
is a school supported by taxes
The Magna Carta was the first document to
place limits on the English ruler's power
The Gentry
The upper class of colonial society
Main reason for the slave codes
they feared slave revolts
around what age were colonial children expected to begin working ?
7
Most colonial women in colonial America were expected to marry men......
chosen by their parents
The Middle Passage
The brutal journey of enslaved people from Africa to America
Whose trial helped establish "freedom of the press" ?
Peter Zenger
Which state had a ban on slavery until the 1750's ?
Georgia
Who wrote "Poor Richard's Almanac
Benjamin Franklin
Unlike modern schools colonial schools included......?
Religion