| A | B |
|---|
| Puritans | Passed laws to promote education |
| public schools | Schools that are supported by taxes |
| instruction in religion | The difference between colonial schools and modern public schools |
| dame schools | Schools that women opened in their homes to teach firls and boys to read and writie |
| grammar schools | Similar to modern high schools |
| Harvard | First college in the English colonies |
| Anne Bradstreet | First colonial poet |
| Benjamin Franklin | Started the Pennsylvania Gazette and Poor Richards Almanac |
| Great Awakening | Led to the rise of new churches, religious tolerance, and reinforced democratic ideas |
| reinforce | To make stronger; to strengthen |
| Enlightenment | Started in the 1600's in Europe, an intellectual movement that stressed reason could solve human problems |
| John Locke | Argued that humans have natural rights from birth including life, liberty, and property |
| Divine Right | Belief that monarchs get their authority to rule directly from God |
| overthrow | What people have a right to do if a monarch violates the rights of the people |
| Baron de Montesquieu | French thinker that influenced American ideas |
| separation of powers | Division of the power of government into separate branches |
| Three Branches | What Montesquieu suggested that government be divided into |
| rights of colonists | The colonists had rights greater than those in England |
| Smuggling | How colonists got around the Navigation Acts |
| Toys | Wealthy children probably got theirs from Europe |
| William and Mary | Signed the English Bill of Rights |
| Slavery | The economy of the South depended on this |
| Massachusetts | Passed laws to begin public education |
| Middle Class | The social class that most colonists belonged to |
| John Peter Zenger Case | Helped establish freedom of press |
| legislature | A group of people who have the power to make laws |
| merchantilism | The theory that colonies exist to make the parent country rich |
| public life | Colonial women did not participate in this |
| Parliament | Made up of the House of Lords and House of Commons |
| libel | Publishing statement that is false and damaging to a person's reputation |
| Birth | This determined peoples prospects in Europe |
| Magna Carta | This was the first document that limited the king's power |
| House of Burgesses | First legislature in North America |
| indentured servants | Received 50 acres, tools, and clothes |
| Age 7 | The age children were expected to start working |
| Voting | Very dear to American colonists |
| English Bill of Rights | Protected habeus corpus, kings could not levy taxes without Parliament, trial by jury |
