2.6 and 2.7

Question 1

Gentry

Answer 1

the highest social class in the English colonies

Question 2

Dame school

Answer 2

a school run by women, usually in their own homes

Question 3

middle class

Answer 3

middle class in the English colonies, a class that included skilled craft workers, farmers, and same tradespeople

Question 4

enlightement

Answer 4

the movement in Europe in 1600s and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason.

Question 5

apperentice

Answer 5

apperentice a person who learns a trade or craft from a master

Question 6

libel

Answer 6

libel the act of publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a person’s reputation

Question 7

mercantilism

Answer 7

mercantilism the theory that a nation’s economic strength came from selling more that it bought from other nations
(trade=wealth=power)

Question 8

triangular trade

Answer 8

the colonial trade route between New England, Africa, and the West Indies

Question 9

bill of rights

Answer 9

bill of rights a written list of freedoms the government promises to protect

Question 10

English Bill of Rights

Answer 10

the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution

Question 11

exports

Answer 11

a trade product sent to markets outside a country

Question 12

legislature

Answer 12

a group of people, usually elected who have the power to make laws

Question 13

imports

Answer 13

trade products brought in to a country

Question 14

Navigation Acts

Answer 14

a series of English laws beginning in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies