The center of most economic activity in the colonies
What is land?
The lawmaking body of England.
What is Parliament?
Most children received little to no formal education except in this region
What is New England?
The life of this person was often harder than the life of an indentured servant
A power or privilege that belongs to people as citizens and that cannot or should not be taken away by the government
What is a right?
These resources were sold to companies in Great Britain, which would then use these materials to manufacture goods to be sold back to the colonists.
What are iron and cotton?
The goals of colonial assemblies
What is selecting the individuals who made their laws and set their taxes?
Here, neighbors would pool their resources together to hire a teacher, or wealthier colonists would hire a private tutor
What are the Southern Colonies?
This greatly influenced a colonial family's ideas about their children's upbringing
What are religious and cultural beliefs?
Consists of representatives from throughout the kingdom of England
What is Parliament?
The heart of the colonial city
What is the waterfront?
The group of colonists with the firmest ideas about right and wrong.
The Puritan's support for education was based on this.
What are their religious beliefs?
Combining work and recreation
What is a "bee"?
An agreement made in 1215 listing the rights granted by King John to all free men of the kingdom
What is the Magna Carta?
What is noisy and smelly?
The exchange of goods between Europe, West Africa, and the Americas.
What is the triangular trade?
The one book that most colonial children learned from
What is the New England Primer?
The size of a typical colonial family
What is large?
An act passed by Parliament in 1689 that limited the monarch's power by giving certain powers to Parliament and listing specific rights of the citizens.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Metal containers that burned grease for lighting.
What are "betty lamps"?
The ocean crossing from Africa to the colonies
What is the Middle Passage?
Here, religious differences between Quakers, Catholics, Jews, Baptists, and other religious groups slowed the spread of public education.
What are the Middle Colonies?
Events where colonists could compete in contests of skills and artistry.
What is a fair?
What is the Great Awakening?