| A | B |
|---|
| almanac | book with advice about planting, weather predictions, and other information |
| Poor Richard's Almanac | Benjamin Franklin |
| bucket brigade | early fire-fighting plan |
| rights | powers or privileges that belong to people as citizens |
| Parliament | the lawmaking body of England |
| petition | to make a formal demand or request |
| Magna Carta | English government plan that said even the king had to follow the law |
| English Bill of Rights | citizens voted for representatives would choose their laws and establish their taxes |
| punished by death | murder, treason, piracy |
| punished by jail, whipping, or branding | theft, forgery, highway robbery |
| punished by fines, short jail terms, or stocks | drunkenness, braking the Sabbath |
| blue laws | laws about activies on Sundays |
| class | a part of society defined by such qualities as wealth, occupation, inherited titles, or honors |
| Middle Passage | the trip across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Colonies |
| First Great Awakening | a spiritual revival movement beginning in the 1730's where attention to faith and a changed life was emphasized |
| public education | found only in New England colonies |
| colonial families | were usually large |
| chopping bee | gathering to clear land |
| barn raising | neighbors gathering to build a barn in a day |
| trock | billards (pool) game |
| tick tack | a type of backgammon game |
| corn meal mush/cornbread | typical breakfast or dinner |
| bowls of stew | served as the main meal of the day |
| salted, smoked, pickled | ways to preserve meat |
| self-sufficient | producing/growing most of what you need yourself |
| 9 out of 10 colonists | lived on a family farm |
| 1 out of 20 colonists | lived in a city |
| waterfront | heart of a port town |
| market place | where colonists went to buy everything they could produce themselves |
| fire | one of the greatest hazards all colonists faced |
