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Governing the Colonies
Colonial Society
Slavery in the Colonies
The Spread of New Ideas
Definitions
100
the publishing of statements that unjustly harm someone's reputation
What is libel?
100
This was the upper class of colonial society
What was the gentry?
100
The belief that some races are inferior to others
What is racism?
100
A well-loved colonial writer and journalist
Who was Ben Franklin?
100
a group of people who have the power to make laws
What is a legislature?
200
a protection against unlawful arrest and detention.
What is habeas corpus?
200
Boys who were learning a trade usually began as these.
What were apprentices?
200
Laws that restricted the rights and activities of enslaved persons
What were slave codes?
200
rights that are said to belong to all humans from birth
What are natural rights?
200
A written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect
What is a bill of rights?
300
English nobles forced King John to sign this, which guaranteed the right to trial by jury.
What is the Magna Carta?
300
These people signed contracts to work for people who would pay for their trips to America.
Who were indentured servants?
300
Commerce between the colonies, the West Indies, and Africa
What was the Triangular Trade?
300
division of government into separate branches
What is separation of powers?
300
having to do with the home or household; pertaining to a country's internal affairs
What is domestic?
400
the publisher whose case helped establish freedom of the press
Who was John Peter Zenger?
400
They were the ones who had controlling authority in colonial families.
Who were husbands and fathers?
400
Enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic on a voyage that became known as this.
What is the Middle Passage?
400
an enslaved African poet in 1760s Boston
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
400
to rebel; to participate in an uprising
What is revolt?
500
The English Parliament passed these to support mercantilism.
What were the Navigation Acts?
500
The 4 colonial class distinctions
What were the gentry, the middle class, the indentured servants, and the free African Americans?
500
This colony had a ban on slavery until the 1750s.
What was Georgia?
500
John Locke and the Baron de Montesquieu were 2 important thinkers in this movement
What is the Enlightenment?
500
A family that includes, in addition to the parents and their children, other members such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
What is an extended family?