Key People of Colonial America
Vocabulary
Farm or Town?
The British
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100
Who played a large role in establishing freedom of the press, after he was arrested for printing negative things about a governor?
John Peter Zenger
100
This term is a belief that one race is superior, or inferior, to another.
What is Racism
100
This family of seventeen is self-sufficient, they make everything from soap and butter to their clothes.
Farm
100
This English brought this idea to the colonies, it was a written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect.
What is a Bill of Rights
100
These acts restricted Colonial trade, and included sauch laws as: all goods shipped to the colonies from Europe had to go through England first.
What are the Navigation Acts
200
This individual was the first colonial poet.
Anne Bradstreet
200
Schools Opened by women to teach children how to read and write were called this.
What are Dame Schools
200
This quaint family of six sat down for dinner and discussed life at the office and the childrens' day at school.
Town
200
The British Monarchs often believed in this, or the idea that they got their power from God.
What is Divine Right
200
What group of people brought the Banjo to the colonies?
African Americans
300
This individual was the first African American Poet in the colonies.
Phillis Wheatley
300
This latin term implies that an individual cannot be put in jail unless they have been charged with a specific crime.
What is Habeas Corpus
300
Living conditions are snug with this family, the parents themselves have 10 children, and their extended family is also dwelling with them.
Farm
300
This British documnet limited the power of the monarch
What is the Magna Carta
300
These were the only people allowed to vote in colonial America.
Who are white male property owners
400
This individual was a Massachusetts preacher who was involved with the Great Awakening.
Jonathan Edwards
400
This word means "in the home"
What is domestic
400
This family just sent their son Jimmy to the blacksmith to become an apprentice, and their daughter Linda to a Dame school to learn how to read and write.
town
400
This king was responsible for pushing the Protestant Reformation into full swing, he alsol had six wives in his lifetime.
Who was Henry VIII
400
This was the name of the voyage taken by captive Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Colonies.
What is the Middle Passage
500
This individual was a man of many trades, including businessman, printer, community leader, inventor, diplomat, and a founding father of our nation.
Benjamin Franklin
500
Someone who is learning a trade is also called this.
What is an apprentice
500
The mother of this family takes on domestic responsibilities, while the father practices medicine.
Town
500
Parliament has this power, or the power to approve new taxes.
What is power of the purse
500
This group of people includes your family beyond your parents and siblings. This would incorporate your grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.
What is an extended family