Social Studies Quiz

__________ is a group of people who have the power to make laws.

• bill of rights

• legislature

• libel

• middle class

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

• bill of rights

• freedom of the press

• gentry

• indentured servant

The principle that a person cannot be held in prison without being charged with a specific crime.

• legislature

• libel

• gentry

• habeas corpus

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

• freedom of press

• libel

• racism

• slave code

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

• racism

• freedom of press

• libel

• apprentice

A family that includes, in addition to the parents and their children, other members such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

• gentry

• middle class

• extended family

• slave code

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

• indentured servant

• apprentice

• gentry

• libel

Someone who signed a contract to work from 4 to 10 years in the colonies for anyone who would pay for his or her ocean passage to the Americas.

• indentured servant

• apprentice

• libel

• middle class

Someone who signed a contract to work from 4 to 10 years in the colonies for anyone who would pay for his or her ocean passage to the Americas.

• indentured servant

• apprentice

• libel

• middle class

_________ were the upper class of colonial society.

• middle class

• indentured servant

• gentry

• apprentice