Chapter 4 Section 1-4

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Legislature

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Is a group of people who have the power to make plans

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Bill of Rights

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Is a written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect

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Habeas Corpus

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The principle that a person cannon be held in prison without being charged with a crime

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Freedom of press

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The right if journalists to publish without restriction or penalty

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Libel

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The punishing of statement that damage a persons reputation

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Zinger case

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Established a fundamental principle

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Section 2

Extended family

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A family that includes in addition to parents and childeren, other members such as grandparents, aunts ,uncles , and cousins

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Apprentice

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Is someone who learns to trade by working for someone who learns to trade for a certain period of time (silver smith)

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Gentry

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We're the upper class of colonial society (political and silversmith )

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Middle clas

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Made up of small planters, independent farmers, and artisans

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Indentured service

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Singed a contract to work from 4 to 10 years in the colonies for anyone who would pay for his or her ocean passage to the americas

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Section 3

Triangular trade

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A three way trade between the colonies and the islands (Caribbean, Africa ,and the colonies )

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Racism

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Is the belief that one race is superior or inferior to another

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Slave codes

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Strict laws that restrict the rights and activities of slaves

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Middle passage

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Stage of the triangular trade which millions of Africans were shipped to new New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade

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Section 4

Dame schools

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Schools that women opened in their homes to teach girls and boys how to read and write

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Public schools

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Schools supported by taxes

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Anne Bradstreet

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First colonial poet.

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Phillis Wheatley

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Later poet was enslaved African, in Boston

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Benjamen Franklin

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Ben moved from penn to Philip to write a news paper for Pennsylvania

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Jhonthan Edwards

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Called people to examine thier lives and comit themselves