Key Terms 1
A group of people who have the power to make laws.
What is legislature
Called people to examine their lives
Who is Jonathan Edwards
A written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect.
What is a bill of rights
The publishing of statements that damage a person's reputation.
What is libel
The power of the government divided into seporate branches
What is separation of powers
The right of journalists to publish the truth without restriction or penalty.
What is freedom of the press
The upper class of colonial society
What is the gentry
A family which includes parents, children, grangparents,aunts,uncles, and cousins.
What is extended family
An indentured servant
What is someone who has signed a contract to work from 4 to 10 years for anyone who paid for their passage to the colonies
Natural rights
What are rights that belong to every human being from birth
Someone who learns a trade by working for someone in that trade.
What is an apprentice
Started the newspaper called The Pennsylvania Gazette
Who is Benjamin Franklin
This class was made up of small planters, independent farmers, and artisans.
What is the middle class
The Great Awakening allowed for the rapid rise of ____ ____ _______.
What is many new churches
The belief that one race is inferior or superior to another
What is racism
Laws that restrict the rights and activities of slaves.
What is the slave code
Two female poets who published between 1650 and 1760's
Who are Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley
Schools that womwn opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write.
What is dame schools
One difference between colonial public schools and public schools of today is that ________ was taught in school.
What is Religion
The three-way trade between the colonies, Caribbean islands, and Africa
What is triangular trade
A school supported by taxes.
What is public school
French thinker who also influenced American ideas
Who is Baron de Montesquieu
The belief that monarchs get their authority to rule directly form God.
What is divine right
The title of Anne Bradstreet's book published in 1650
What is The tenth muse, Lately Sprung Up in America
The principal that people cannot be held in prison without being charged
What is habeas corpus