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| Legislature | a group of people who have the power to make laws |
| Purpose of a Colony | to grow wealth for the mother country- source of raw materials and a market to sell the goods of the mother country |
| Colonial Women | could not vote |
| 50 -75% of white Colonial Men | could vote |
| Colonial Children | played with homemade toys until age 7- then went to work with parents to help on farm |
| Colonial Slave | could not vote |
| Indentured servant | a person who was under contract to work of their debt for 4-10years- they had few rights, bound to their masters, and earned their freedom ater their debt was paid |
| Names for England | England, Brittain, Great Brittain |
| Reasons Colonies were started | Religious freedom, Political freedom, to start a new life, to gain wealth, adventure |
| Middle Passage | brutal voyage across the Atlantic ocean- 15-20% of slaves died on the journey |
| Triangle Trade | three way trade between English colonies, islands of the Carribean, and Africa |
| Slave codes | strict laws against slave rights and activities- slaves could not learn to read and write, leave the plantation without permission, own weapons or meet in large groups |
| Magna Carta | 1215- first document to limit the power of an English king |
| Mother Country of the 13 Colonies | England |
| Bill of Rights | written list of freedomsof citizensthat a government promises to protect |
| Habeas Corpus | can not be imprisoned without being charged with a specific crime |
| Farms | most colinists lived on them |
| towns | very few in colonial times |
| Fathers- Husbands-Men | controlled the families money and property |
| Roles of Women | have many children, cook, laundry, make clothes, tend to family, tend garden, help husband, preserve food |
| Gentry | upper class of Colonial society- wealthy planters, merchants, ministers, lawyers etc. fewest in number, but most powerful in colonial society |
| Middle class | largest group in colonial society, neither rich nor extremely poor, small planters, independent farms |
| Free African Americans | small part of colonial society, could own land, could not vote |
| Atlantic slave trade | Spanish and Portuguese brought first African slaves to the Americas over the Atlantic- estimated 10 million slaves brought to Americas between 1500 and 1800 |
| Slavery in the colonies | harsh |
| Plantation System | increased the need for slavery in the colonies |
| 3 Reasons for creating 13 Colonies | Religious, Political, & Economic Freedom |
