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14 Cards in this Set
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legislature |
group of people who have power to make laws |
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bill of right |
written list of freedom that govt promises to protect |
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franchise / suffrage |
right to vote |
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freedom of the press |
Right of journalists to publish true information without fear of punishment |
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apprentice |
Person who learns a trade (skilled job) by working for someone in that trade |
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racism |
Belief that your own race is superior others and that you can mistreat races you consider inferior to your own |
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public school |
public school |
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Great Awakening |
Revival of religious fervor in 1730s and 1740s |
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Enlightenment |
Period of scientific and political enquiry (questioning) during 1600-1700s |
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natural rights |
Rights that belong to every human being, according to John Locke and other Enlightenment thinkers like Thomas Jefferson |
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separation of powers |
Baron de Montesquieu's idea that government's power should be limited by giving powers to separate branches. |
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Gentry |
highest colonial social class: wealthy planters and farmers, merchants, ministers, royal officials, successful artisans |
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Middle class |
largest colonial class: small planters and independent farmers, some free blacks, mostly whites |
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Social Mobility |
ability to move to lower social classes to higher by working to earn money whites can reach the top class just by gaining wealth |