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100
In 1689, William and his wife signed the English Bill of Rights.
Who is Mary?
100
In colonial times, this was often how a young man learned a trade.
What is "apprenticeship"?
100
The leg of the Triangular Trade where Africans came to the Americas was known as this.
What is the "Middle Passage"?
100
These type of schools were opened by women to teach young boys and girls.
What were "dame schools"?
100
This was a factor in the growth of slavery in the southern colonies.
What is the "plantation system"?
200
The Zenger case helped establish the right of freedom of this.
What is "the press"?
200
The killing of an enslaved person by his or her master was legal under this law.
What are the "slave codes"?
200
One who agreed to work for a number of years in exchange for ocean passage to the Americas.
What is "indentured servant"?
200
Puritan grammar schools would compare to this type of school today.
What are "high schools"?
200
These were the upper class in colonial society.
Who were the "gentry"?
300
Smuggling was used by some colonists to get around this piece of legislation.
What are the "Navigation Acts"?
300
Every Puritan town with at least 50 families was required to provide this.
What is an elementary school?
300
To prevent slave revolts, colonial authorities wrote these laws.
What are "slave codes"?
300
This white woman was the first published poet in the Americas.
What is Anne Bradstreet?
300
He was the publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette in colonial America, as well as inventor and businessman.
Who is "Ben Franklin"?
400
This document in the Middle Ages was the first to limit the power of the ruler's power.
What is the "Magna Carta"?
400
This is how the southern gentry usually educated their children.
Who were "private tutors"?
400
They sold enslaved Africans to the slave traders bound for the Americas.
Who were "other Africans"?
400
Jonathan Edwards was a preacher who played a role in a colonial revival known as this.
What is the "Great Awakening"?
400
The English Parliament passed the Navigation Acts to support this system that benefited the motherland.
What is "mercantilism"?
500
Baron de Montesquieu's ideas about government included this to prevent tyranny.
What is "separation of powers"?
500
Most women in colonial America were expected to marry through this process.
What is "arranged marriage"?
500
White men only were the only ones to be able to do this in the American colonies.
What is "vote"?
500
This is a period in Europe were philosophers began to use human reason and logic to attempt learn new ideas and solve problems.
What is the "Enlightenment"?
500
This Latin term literally means "produce the body" (for trial).
What is "habeas corpus"?
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