Colonial America

This was the first document to place restrictions on an English ruler's power. 

• Bill of Rights 
• Magna Carta 
• Parliament 
• Habeas Corpus 

A group of people who have the power to make laws. 

• King 
• Libel 
• Legislature 
• Gentry 

A written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect. 

• Bill of Rights 
• Natural Rights 
• Magna Carta 
• Divine Rights 

A person can not be held in prison without being charges with a specific crime. 

• Libel 
• Freedom 
• Rights 
• Habeas Corpus 

The right of journalists to publish the truth without restriction or penalty. 

• Freedom of Press
• Habeas Corpus 
• Gentry 
• Bill of Rights 

The publishing of statements that damage a person's reputation. 

• Freedom of Press 
• Natural Rights 
• Press Code 
• Libel 

The theory which colonies existed in order to serve the economic needs of their parent country.

• Regulation 
• Divine Rights 
• mercantilism
• Colonizing 

Other members of a family such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. 

• Colonial Family 
• Immediate Family 
• Patriarch
• Extended Family 

Someone who learns a trade by working for someone in that trade for a certain period of time. 

• Indentured Servant
• Apprentice 
• Gentry 
• Slave 

The upper class of colonial society. 

• Gentry
• Merchants 
• Nobels 
• Lords