Colonial Life Vocabulary

A 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians.

A nickname for New Englanders.

A religious movement in the English colonies in the mid-1700s.

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

The theory that a nation's economic strength came from selling more than it bought from other nations.

Laws that controlled the lives of most Africans and denied basic rights.

A combination of English and West African Languages spoken by African Americans in the Southern Colonies.

A list of key individual freedoms.

A 1689 document that guaranteed the rights of English citizens.

Movement that brought William and Mary to the throne of England and strengthened English citizens' rights.