Grade 7: Life in the Colonies- Key Terms and People

The first colonial poet who wrote The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America

• Phillis Wheatley

• Benjamin Franklin

• Anne Bradstreet

• Jonathan Edwards

Christian preacher who was responsible for a Christian revival in the colonies; told people to examine their consciences and commit themselves to God

• Benjamin Franklin

• Jonathan Edwards

• Jonathan Winthrop

• Phillis Wheatley

• Anne Hutchinson

Colonial poet who was an enslaved African who lived in Boston

• Anne Bradstreet

• John Winthrop

• Jonathan Edwards

• Phillis Wheatley

• Blanche Bruce

Created the Pennsylvania Gazette and Poor Richard's Almanack

• Johnathan Edwards

• Anne Hutchinson

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Adams

• Phillis Wheatley

A person who learns a trade or craft from a master

• indentured servant

• gentry

• middle class

• extended family

• apprentice

A written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect

• bill of rights

• libel

• slave code

• divine right

• habeas corpus

A school run by a woman, usually in her own home

• public school

• legislature

• dame school

• boarding school

• gentry

close-knit family group that includes parents, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins

• gentry

• legislature

• faction

• extended family

• middle class

The right of newspapers and other public media to publish articles believed to be accurate

• libel

• habeas corpus

• separation of powers

• divine right

• freedom of the press

Belief that a ruler's authority comes directly from God

• divine right

• natural right

• habeas corpus

• slave code

• libel