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Authorities established the slave codes in order to prevent slaves from what?
Revolting
Laws that restrict the rights and activities of enslaved people
Slave Codes
A school supported by taxes
Public School
A school opened by women in their homes to teach young boys and girls to read and write
Dame school
Racism
Rights that belong to every human being from birth
Natural Rights
Enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a voyage that became known as the what?
Middle Passage
Enslaved Africans on rice plantations in South Carolina spoke what language?
Gullah
Who was a well loved colonial writer and journalist?
Ben Franklin
Enslaved Africans were what to farm and plantation owners once they were unloaded from the slave ships?
Auctioned
Colonial grammar schools were something like what type of schools today?
High Schools
Who was an enslaved African poet in Boston during the 1760s?
Phillis Wheatley
What two colonies originally tried to restrict or ban slavery?
Rhode Island and Georgia
Name the 3 natural rights according to John Locke
Life, liberty, property
Commerce between the colonies, West Indies, and Africa
Triangular Trade
A wave of religious enthusiasm that swept through the colonies in the 1730s?
Great Awakening
John Locke and Montesquieu were two important thinkers in a movement called the what?
Enlightenment
The division of power of the government into separate branches
Separation of power
The belief that monarchs get their authority to rule directly from God
Divine Right
Slavery
What 3 rights were removed by the slave codes?
Own weapons, leave the plantation, and gather in large groups