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Vocabulary
Colonies
City/Farm Life
Crime and Punishment
Salem Witch Trials
100
An elected group of lawmakers.
What is an assembly
100
The middle region included which colonies?
What is New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware
100
True or False? Eight out of ten people lived on small family farms.
What is false. Nine
100
True or False? Each colonial assembly passed its own laws defining crimes and punishments.
What is true
100
Witchcraft exploded in this city and state.
What is Salem, Massachusetts
200
People who wanted to "purify" the English Church.
What are Puritans
200
A formal document that outlined the colony's geographic boundaries and specified how it would be governed.
What is a charter
200
This was the only source of heat for warmth and cooking.
What is the fireplace
200
For these crimes, people might be jailed, whipped, or branded with hot irons.
What is theft, forgery, highway robbery
200
The number of witches put to death in the Salem Witch Trials.
What is 20
300
To make a formal demand or request.
What is petition
300
The New England region included which colonies?
What is Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire
300
True or False? City homes were close together on winding streets.
What is true
300
For these crimes people were punished with fines, short jail terms, or public humiliation.
What is drunkenness and breaking the Sabbath
300
Tituba was from this place.
What is Barbados
400
The way a society organizes the manufacture and exchange of things of value, such as money, food, products, and services.
What is an economy
400
An agreement that described the way Pilgrims would govern themselves in the new world.
What is the Mayflower Compact
400
This was the simplest way to climb the social ladder.
What is by making a lot of money
400
Sunday laws written by Puritans in books with blue paper bindings.
What are blue laws
400
The age of the youngest girl accused during the trials.
What is 4
500
The lawmaking body of England, consisting of representatives from throughout the kingdom.
What is Parliament
500
This act said that the power to make laws and impose taxes belonged to the people's elected representatives in Parliament and no one else.
What is the English Bill of Rights
500
One can usually tell someone's social class in the colonies by
What is their style of dress.
500
The puritans forbade people to work and play on this day.
What is Sunday
500
These women were the first three to be accused and arrested for practicing witchcraft in Salem.
What is Sarah Osborne, Sarah Good, and Tituba