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Vocabulary
100

The center of most economic activity in the colonies

What is land?

100

The lawmaking body of England.

What is Parliament?

100

Most children received little to no formal education except in this region

What is New England?

100

The life of this person was often harder than the life of an indentured servant

What is a colonial wife/mother?
100

A power or privilege that belongs to people as citizens and that cannot or should not be taken away by the government

What is a right?

200

These resources were sold to companies in Great Britain, which would then use these materials to manufacture goods to be sold back to the colonists. 

What are iron and cotton?

200

The goals of colonial assemblies

What is selecting the individuals who made their laws and set their taxes?

200

Here, neighbors would pool their resources together to hire a teacher, or wealthier colonists would hire a private tutor

What are the Southern Colonies?

200

This greatly influenced a colonial family's ideas about their children's upbringing

What are religious and cultural beliefs?

200

Consists of representatives from throughout the kingdom of England

What is Parliament?

300

The heart of the colonial city

What is the waterfront?

300

The group of colonists with the firmest ideas about right and wrong. 

Who are the Puritans?
300

The Puritan's support for education was based on this. 

What are their religious beliefs?

300

Combining work and recreation

What is a "bee"?

300

An agreement made in 1215 listing the rights granted by King John to all free men of the kingdom

What is the Magna Carta?

400
Colonial cities could be described as this. 

What is noisy and smelly?

400

The exchange of goods between Europe, West Africa, and the Americas. 

What is the triangular trade?

400

The one book that most colonial children learned from

What is the New England Primer?

400

The size of a typical colonial family

What is large?

400

An act passed by Parliament in 1689 that limited the monarch's power by giving certain powers to Parliament and listing specific rights of the citizens. 

What is the English Bill of Rights?

500

Metal containers that burned grease for lighting. 

What are "betty lamps"?

500

The ocean crossing from Africa to the colonies

What is the Middle Passage?

500

Here, religious differences between Quakers, Catholics, Jews, Baptists, and other religious groups slowed the spread of public education.

What are the Middle Colonies?

500

Events where colonists could compete in contests of skills and artistry. 

What is a fair?

500
A revival of religious feeling and belief in the American colonies that began in the 1730's.

What is the Great Awakening?