Vocab
The belief that one race is superior or inferior to another.
Racism
Dame schools are schools that women opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write
TRUE
What cash crop is America founded on?
Tobacco
School supported by taxes
Public School
Maryland attracted what type of people?
Catholics seeking religious freedom from the Church of England
Extended Family
A legislature is a group of people who have the power to make laws
TRUE
What was the first successful settlement?
Jamestown
Right of newspapers and other public media to publish articles believed to be accurate
Freedom of the press
Name a few domestic responsibilities women had during colonial times?
Cleaning, cooking, bringing up the children, etc.
The principal that a person cannot be held in prison without being charged with a specific crime.
Habeas Corpus
The slave code only applied to men, not women.
FALSE
Did women help control the family's income and property?
No, that was a man's responsibility
In the thirteen colonies, a portion of the colonial population that included small planters, independent farmers, and skilled crafts-workers
Middle Class
Most colonists lived on ____________, where a large family was considered an advantage
Farms
The publishing of statements that damage a person's reputation.
Libel
On the second leg of the triangular trade ships carried rum, guns, and other goods from New England to West Africa.
TRUE
Created to restrict the rights of enslaved people
Slave Codes
The upper class of colonial society
The gentry
Most schools in the 1600's were under _____________ sponsorship.
Religious
Rights that belong to every human being from birth
Natural Rights
Triangular trade was a three-way trade between England, Europe and China.
FALSE
What was the most significant purpose of the Magna Carta?
It was the first document to place restrictions on an English ruler's power
Principle by which the powers of government are divided among separate branches
Separation of Powers
What event was called the Glorious Revolution?
Parliament removed King James ll from the throne and invited his daughter Mary and her husband William to rule England.