Chapter 4 History-Life in the Colonies

America's first published poet

• Anne Bradstreet
• Benjamin Franklin 

Preacher who played a role in the Great Awakening

• Jonathan Edwards
• Phyllis Wheatley

The upper class of colonial society

• gentry
• apprentice

One who agreed to work for a number of years in exchange for ocean passage to the Americas

• indentured servant 
• gentry

The Magna Carta was the first document to 

• place limits on the power of wealthy landowners
• establish a monarchy
• place limits on an English ruler's power
• give greater power to an English ruler 

The legal rights that Englishman had led the colonists to 

• support the Navigation Acts
• give more power to the monarchy
• expect a voice in their government
• believe in separation of powers

Unlike modern public schools, colonial public schools included instruction in 

• science
• poetry
• politics
• religion

Which of the following colonies had a ban on slavery until the 1750's

• Virginia
• Georgia
• Pennsylvania
• Maryland

Whose trial helped establish freedom of the press

• John Locke
• Phillis Wheatley 
• Baron de Montesquieu
• Peter Zenger

Most women in colonial America were expected to marry men

• they fell in love with
• who were regular churchgoers
• who had an honorable occupation
• chosen by their parents