Forms Of Government
Colonists sometimes established ___________ to make decisions for them.
Assemblies / Town Meetings
The trade network between the colonies, the West Indies, and Great Britain was known as
triangular trade route
Laws passed to control slaves were known as
Slave Codes
Physicist who developed theories about motion and gravity was ____________
Sir Issac Newton
Africans were brought across the Atlantic in a brutal journey called the
Middle Passage
False written statement that damages a person's reputation is known as
Libel
Taxes on goods brought into a country are called
Duties
Public church gatherings where masses of people came together to hear a minister's message were called
Revivals
The careful examination of natural events and formation of theories from experiments and observations is known as the
Scientific Method
The scientist who confirmed the theory that the planets revolve around the sun was known as
Galileo Galilei
A ___________ is a lawmaking body made up of two houses, or groups.
Bicameral Legislature
The practice of creating and keeping wealth by carefully controlling trade is known as
Mercantilism
Crops grown mainly to be sold for profits are called
Cash Crops
The movement in which thinkers used reason and logic to study human nature and society was known as the
Enlightenment
Officials wanted to create a favorable balance of ______ in which more goods were sold to other countries than were brought from other countries.
Trade
Government that united the New England colonies was known as the
Dominion of New England
Laws that kept colonists from trading specified items with any country other than England were known as the
Navigation Acts
Young people called ___________ learned skilled trades from master craftsmen.
Apprentices
African American astronomer who accurately predicted an eclipse in 1789 and published an almanac was_____________
Benjamin Banneker
The South's economy was based on agriculture and ________ such as wood and tar.
Exports
____________ was a group of royal advisors who set policy for England's colonies in North America.
Privy Council
Items purchased from other countries are
Imports
The middle colonies produced ___________ like wheat and barley
Staple Crops
___________ was the movement in which scientists began re-examining the world and the universe.
Scientific Revolution
__________ was a colonial teaching tool that had characters and stories from the Bible.
The New England Primer