Vocabulary
A policy that the colonies exist to benefit and make money for the mother country
What is mercantilism?
The first document to place a limit on an English ruler's power.
What is The Magna Carta?
By the late 1600s, what was the southern economy dependent upon?
What is Slavery?
This colony had a ban on slavery until the 1750"s.
What is Georgia?
Name two things Colonial Women were responsible for in the home?
What is cooking, cleaning, laundry, childcare, etc.
The upper class of colonial society.
What is the Gentry?
The only group of people allowed to vote in the American colonies.
What is Most Free, White, Males.
The person with the controlling authority in colonial families.
What is The Husbands and Fathers?
Crowded, hot, groans, shrieks, dying describes conditions on a this kind of a ship.
What is a slave ship heading to America during the Middle Passage?
What is cash crops grown in the South?
A protection against unlawful arrest and detention.
What is Habeas Corpus?
This person's trial helped establish Freedom of the Press.
What is Peter Zenger?
The person colonial women were often expected to marry.
What is a Man Chosen By Her Parents?
Trade routes based on selling slaves.
What is Triangular Trade Routes?
Name two things Colonial Women were responsible for on the farm?
What is the garden, chickens, plowing, harvesting, etc.?
Laws that restricted the rights and activities of enslaved persons.
What are Slave Codes?
Legal rights of the Englishmen led to this colonial expectation.
What is A Voice in Their Government?
The age when most colonial children were expected to start working.
What is Age 7?
This was written because colonial authorities were worried about slave revolts.
What is Slave Codes?
What types of occupations might Colonial Women have if they lived in a town?
What is Shop Keeper, Baker, Undertaker, Printer, etc.?
One who agreed to work for a number of years in exchange for ocean passage to the Americas.
What is Indentured Servant?
A group of people who have the power to make laws.
What is The Legislature?
Writing, arithmetic, music, and dancing.
What is subjects girls were allowed to learn in school?
The name of the brutal journey that brought Africans to the Americas?
What is Middle Passage?
By the late 1600's, the southern economy was dependent upon this:
What is slavery?