Chapter 4
Terms
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- Legislature
- a group of people who have the power to make laws
- Public Schools
- a school supported by taxes
- Natural Rights
- rights that belong to every human being from birth that include life, liberty and property
- Racism
- the belief that one race is superior or inferior to another
- Slave Code
- strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves
- Phillis Wheatley
- A Boston slave who wrote and published poetry
- The Great Awakening
- a period of religious revival in the 1730's and 1740's
- Yankees
- clever and hardworking New England merchants
- middle passage
- the brutal voyag across the Atlantic enslaved Africans were forced to make
- Bill of Rights
- a written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect
- Dame School
- schools women opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write
- Anne Bradstreet
- a colonial poet whose works were about life in Puritan New England
- Chattel
- property
- Apprentice
- someoe who learns a trade by working for someone in that trade for a certain period of time
- Peter Zenger
- A publisher who was found not guilty fo libel because the statements that he made were true
- Libel
- the publishing of statements that damage a person's reputation
- Divine Right
- the belief that monarchs get their authority to rule directly from God was challenged by John Locke
- The Enlightenment
- a way of thinking that said all problems could be solved by human reason
- Gentry
- the upper class in colonial society including wealthy planters, merchants, ministers, royal officials, lawyers
- Extended Family
- a family that includes, in addition to the parents and their children, other members such as grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins
- Benjamin Franklin
- a well loved colonial writer who started the Pennsylvania Gazette adn Poor Richard's Almanack
- Jonathan Edwards
- a Massachusetts preacher famous for fiery sermons
- Separation of Powers
- division of the power of government into separate branches
- Freedom of the Press
- the right of journalists to publish the truth without restriction or penalty
- Magna Carta
- "Great Charter", placed restrictions on English ruler's power