Enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic on a brutal voyage that became known as this.
What was the Middle Passage?
100
Most slaves were captured in this area and then sold to traders along the West African coast.
What was the African interior?
100
Basic skills
What were reading, writing and arithmetic?
100
A wave of religious enthusiasm beginning in the 1730s, that swept through the colonies
What was the Great Awakening?
100
Racism
What is the belief that one race is superior or inferior to another?
200
At auction
How were enslaved Africans sold to farm or plantation owners?
200
Enslaved Africans on rice plantations in South Carolina spoke this dialect that blended English and several African languages.
What is Gullah?
200
Schools run with both private and public money
What were Puritan schools?
200
Rights that are said to belong to all humans from birth
What are natural rights?
200
Public school
What is a school supported by taxes?
300
By the late 1600s, the southern economy had come to depend on this because of the need for cheap labor.
What was slavery?
300
Ships from New England carried this to the West Indies.
What was fish and lumber?
300
Colonial grammar schools were something like these.
What are today’s high schools?
300
Division of government into separate branches
What is separation of powers?
300
Strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves
What were slave codes?
400
The first enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas by the Spanish and by these people.
Who were the Portuguese?
400
Three examples of West African culture in the Americas were these.
What were quilt making,
furniture making, and wood carving?
400
Two important thinkers in the Enlightenment movement
Who were John Locke and the Baron de Montesquieu?
400
An enslaved African poet in 1760s Boston
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
400
Triangular Trade
What was a three way trade between the colonies, the islands of the Caribbean, & Africa?
500
Four features of the slave codes
What was 1. slaves could not meet in large numbers
2. Slaves could not own weapons
3. Could not leave plantation without permission
4. Could not be taught to read and write
5. Masters who killed slaves could not be tried for murder
500
This colony had a ban on slavery until the 1750s.
What was Georgia?
500
A much-loved colonial writer and journalist
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
500
The reason for the Great Awakening.
What was A reaction against what some Christians saw as a decline of religious zeal in the colonies or strict religious commitment?
500
Dame schools
What were schools that women opened in their homes to teach boys and girls to read and write?