Classes
Slavery in the Colonies
Colonial Family
Rights of Men, Women, and Slaves
Potluck
100
The wealthiest class
What is the gentry?
100
West Africa
What is where most slaves in the colonies came from?
100
I had tutors to teach me
What is a gentry child?
100
I couldn't leave the house where I worked without permission
What is an indentured servant
100
The first legislature in America
What is the House of Burgesses
200
I would be given my freedom after working for 4-10 years
What are indentured servants?
200
Middle Passage
What is the journey from Africa to the New World for slaves?
200
My work was mostly domestic
What is a colonial woman?
200
I could not buy or sell anything and can't leave the house without permission
What is an indentured servant?
200
the first document to limit the an English ruler's power
What is the Magna Carta
300
I could move up in class...I could be an artisan
What is someone in the Middle Class?
300
These further limited slaves 'rights'
What are the slave codes?
300
Where we spent much of our nights in the winter
What is the fireplace hearth?
300
My children became the property of others
What are slaves?
300
This gives journalists the right to publish the truth without restriction or penalty
What is freedom of the press?
400
I believe it's my duty to hold public office
What is the gentry?
400
Rum, guns, and slaves
What is a triangular trade?
400
Thornback
What is an unmarried woman?
400
I learn a trade by working for someone in that trade for certain period of time
What is an apprentice
400
The principle that a person cannot be held in prison without being charged for a specific crime
What is habeas corpus
500
About 1 in 10 of us became prosperous landowners
What are indentured servants?
500
Gullah
What is a language combining English and African languages?
500
I had the right to decide on war
What is a Native American woman
500
A family that includes grandparents, aunts, uncles in addition to parents and children
What is an extended family
500
These acts forced colonists to only use ships built and owned by British subjects
What are the Navigation Acts
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