chapter 4 colonial life vocab

legislature

• group of people who have the power to make laws

• a person who makes the laws

• interprets the law

is a written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect

• legislature

• bill of rights

• habeas corpus

the principle that a person cann ot be held in prison without being charges with a crime

• legislature

• habeas corpus

• bill of rights

the right of journalists to publish the truth without being charges with a specific crime

• freedom of press

• freedom of religion

• freedom of speech

publishing a statement that damages a person's reputation

• freedom of press

• libel

• habeas corpus

is a family that includes and in addition to children and parents grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins

• nuclear family

• extended family

• immediate family

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

• habeas corpus

• gentry

• apprentice

the upper class of colonial society

• middle class

• lower class

• gentry

made up of small planters, independent farmers, and artisans

• middle class

• lower class

• gentry

signed a contract to work from 4 to 7 years in the colonies to anyone who paid for their trip to the americas

• gentry

• indentured servant

• middle class